NASA, SpaceX adjust Crew-5 launch date
Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:21
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:45 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 3, for the launch of the agency's Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. The date adjustment allows for extra separation with spacecraft traffic coming to and from the space station.
Crew-5 will carry two NASA astronauts Mission Commander Nicole Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospac China conducts spaceplane flight test
Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:21
On Friday, China carried out a key flight test of its reusable suborbital spaceplane, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contractor.
The State-owned company said in a news release that the spaceplane started its own propulsion system and then conducted a vertical liftoff from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Glenn's legacy of testing spacecraft spans from Apollo to Artemis
Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:21
In early 2020, NASA's Glenn Research Center achieved a major milestone for the Artemis Program by verifying that the systems on NASA's new Orion spacecraft functioned in a simulated space environment. Project manager Nicole Smith explained, "We like to say, 'we test like we fly." The center began testing spacecraft as they fly over 50 years earlier while preparing the Centaur stage to transport Green light for the return to the Moon
Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:21
On 22 August 2022, NASA gave the green light for the first launch window of Artemis I. From a technical point of view, the signs are good for the first flight of the new SLS heavy-lift launch vehicle with the Orion spacecraft on board. The Artemis I mission is scheduled to last 42 days and - if the launch is successful on 29 August - return to Earth on 10 October. The Orion spacecraft, whose ser A decade in the making, NASA's Artemis 1 launch is first step back to the moon
Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:21
When NASA's Artemis I mission lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, it will mark a major step forward for the space agency that will have been 12 years in the making.
The uncrewed test flight is the first for NASA's Space Launch System, which is paired with the Orion capsule, to ensure it can eventually deliver astronauts safely back to Earth.
The launch i NASA awards contract to demonstrate trash compacting system for ISS
Sunday, 28 August 2022 12:21
NASA has awarded a contract to Sierra Nevada Corporation of Madison, Wisconsin, to develop and demonstrate a microgravity-compactible Trash Compaction and Processing System (TCPS) Phase B, for the International Space Station (ISS).
This contract provides firm-fixed-price core requirements and indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, firm-fixed-price task orders, along with additional optio To the Moon and beyond: NASA's Artemis program
Sunday, 28 August 2022 10:49
The Artemis program is NASA's plan to return humans to the Moon as a stepping stone for an eventual voyage to Mars.
Twelve men walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972 and one of the goals of Artemis is to put the first woman and person of color on the lunar surface.
The first test flight of an uncrewed Artemis rocket is to take place on Monday.
The name Artemis was chosen to echo that of the Apollo program.
Artemis, in Greek mythology, was the twin sister of Apollo and a goddess associated with the Moon.
Here is an overview of the Artemis program:
Artemis 1: test flight
Artemis 1 is a test flight of the 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket and the Orion crew capsule that sits on top.
Blastoff is scheduled for 8:33 am (1233 GMT) on Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
'Sight to behold': tourists flock to Florida for Moon rocket launch
Sunday, 28 August 2022 10:48
Seeing a rocket blast off to the Moon is "a once-in-a-lifetime thing to experience," says Joanne Bostandji.
The 45-year-old has traveled all the way from northern England to Florida with her husband and two children for a space-themed vacation, and they're prepared to make sure they don't miss a second of the action as NASA's newest and most powerful rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time Monday.
"The plan is to drive very early in the morning and get a spot" on Cocoa Beach, she said, not far from the Kennedy Space Center.
"I know it's going be from a far distance, but I still think it's going be a sight to behold," Bostandji told AFP as the family waited to enter a park dedicated to space exploration.
Grants fuel Dawn Aerospace propulsion development
Saturday, 27 August 2022 19:03
With recent grants from government agencies, Dawn Aerospace is refining its nitrous-based satellite propulsion technology.
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Countdown for first Artemis 1 launch attempt begins
Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:12
NASA started the countdown Aug. 27 for its first attempt to launch its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for an uncrewed flight around the moon.
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US appeals court upholds Starlink deployment change
Friday, 26 August 2022 20:45
A U.S. appeals court Aug. 26 upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s year-old decision to let SpaceX deploy more satellites at lower altitudes to improve the Starlink broadband constellation’s performance.
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NASA Artemis1 to carry ASU CubeSat into space
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Mapping the moon's surface for NASA missions
Friday, 26 August 2022 16:47
The first phase of NASA's Artemis mission, an uncrewed test flight around the moon, was scheduled to launch this Monday (29 August 2022). The third phase, scheduled for 2025, will see humans land on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
Professor Jan-Peter Muller and Ph.D. student Alfiah Putri (both UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) were commissioned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to create a 3D model and image of a possible landing site known as Aristarchus—a crater 40km wide and nearly 2.7km deep that was originally selected as the landing site for the canceled Apollo 18 mission.
The team used a photogrammetry technique they pioneered to derive a detailed 3D model, at a resolution of one meter, from a series of 14 stereo images (where pictures are taken of the same scene at slightly different angles).
Professor Muller says that "better quality maps and models of the moon's surface are important to minimize risks and maximize the safety of astronauts. Our techniques, developed over decades, provide the most accurate images and models currently possible.
Fungal experiment to launch as Artemis I payload
Friday, 26 August 2022 16:35
An experiment prepared by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch as part of NASA's scheduled Artemis I mission to orbit the moon Aug. 29.
The NRL experiment will use samples of fungi to investigate effects of the deep space radiation environment outside of Earth's protective magnetosphere.
Artemis launch brings us closer to space exploration goals
Friday, 26 August 2022 16:28
On Monday, Aug. 29, NASA plans to launch its Orion spacecraft from the world's most powerful rocket for a trip around the moon. This launch of the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission is a step toward the goal of landing people on the moon in 2025.
"With a successful launch of Artemis 1, NASA and the U.S. will reclaim the capability to launch humans to the moon," said Bradley L. Jolliff, the Scott Rudolph Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.
"We lost that capability nearly 50 years ago when the last of the Saturn V rockets were retired after the Apollo 17 mission. Artemis 1 will pave the way for the next generation of astronauts to once again explore a world other than our own."
Artemis represents the next great leap in human exploration of space, beginning with a sustainable return to the moon, Jolliff said.
"In this case, 'sustainable' means that the Artemis missions will not be Apollo-like sorties," he said.