Ariane 6 media briefing – September 2023
Monday, 04 September 2023 10:55
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Watch the replay of the media briefing and the question-and-answer session outlining the progress achieved and the upcoming steps in the Ariane 6 development test campaign. Updates are given on tests conducted at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and at the German Aerospace Center DLR’s technical centre in Lampoldshausen, Germany.
The briefing was held on 4 September 2023 from ESA’s Headquarters in Paris, France. Participants included:
Josef Aschbacher, Director General, ESA
Martin Sion, CEO, ArianeGroup
Philippe Baptiste, Chairman and CEO, CNES
Stéphane Israël, CEO, Arianespace
Toni Tolker-Nielsen, Director of Space Transportation, ESA
Carine Leveau, Director of Space Transportation, CNES
Stefan Schlechtriem, Director of Lampoldshausen,
India’s moon lander set for nighttime as solar mission soars
Monday, 04 September 2023 10:38
SpaceX sends 22 new Starlink satellites into orbit in 60th launch of 2023
Monday, 04 September 2023 10:35
Twenty-two new Starlink Internet satellites started orbiting the Earth after a successful launch by SpaceX late Thursday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The satellites, part of the constellation being created by SpaceX to provide Internet access even in the most remote locations on the globe, were taken into space by the workhorse Falcon 9 rocket at 10:21 p.m. EDT.
In Lockheed Martin's Transport Layer satellites launch as part SDA's Tranche 0
Monday, 04 September 2023 10:35
Ten Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) satellites have been deployed into low-Earth orbit (LEO) in support of the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer (T0TL) mission. SDA's T0TL is a proliferated LEO constellation that will demonstrate low-latency communication and provide a resilient network of integrated capabilities.
The small satellites launched aboard a SpaceX Fal Firefly and Millennium stand ready for Responsive mission for Space Force
Monday, 04 September 2023 10:35
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, and Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) small satellite constellation prime, have entered the hot standby phase for VICTUS NOX, a Tactically Responsive Space mission led by Space Systems Command's (SSC) Space Safari Program Office. The team stands ready for the 24-hour callup and orbit requirements to complete Ariane 6 joint update report, 4 September 2023
Monday, 04 September 2023 10:30
The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of top management at ESA, the overall Ariane 6 procuring entity and launch system architect, launch base prime contractor and French space agency CNES, launcher system prime contractor ArianeGroup and launch service provider Arianespace. This group reports regularly on progress being made towards inaugural flight of the new Ariane 6 launcher.
The next update is expected in October.
Next major X-ray mission set to launch
Monday, 04 September 2023 07:00
*Update: The new launch date for XRISM is 08:42 JST / 00:42 BST / 01:42 CEST on 7 September 2023*
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is ready to launch on 7 September 2023 to observe the most energetic objects and events in the cosmos. In doing so, it will unveil the evolution of the Universe and the structure of spacetime.
XRISM is a collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, with significant participation from ESA. The launch will be streamed live in Japanese and English on JAXA’s YouTube channel.
Four astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX capsule to wrap up six-month station mission
Monday, 04 September 2023 06:50
NASA's LRO observes crater likely from Luna 25 impact
Sunday, 03 September 2023 10:50
NASA's LRO - the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - spacecraft imaged a new crater on the Moon's surface that is likely the impact site of Russia's Luna 25 mission. During its descent, Luna 25 experienced an anomaly that caused it to impact the surface of the Moon on Aug. 19.
Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, published an estimate of the impact point on Aug. 21. The LROC (short for LRO Camera) Renderings offer images of China's next-generation spacecraft
Sunday, 03 September 2023 10:50
China has published artist's renderings of the country's lunar landing module and its next-generation crew spacecraft, both of which will be central to the nation's grand goal of sending astronauts to the moon.
According to the renderings and their descriptions published by the China Manned Space Agency on Thursday, the lunar landing module will have two parts - a landing section and a pro China continues to make strides in space breeding technique
Sunday, 03 September 2023 10:50
Upon a search for "space-bred seeds" on China's e-commerce giant JD.com, a stunning array of vegetables and fruits appears, each with remarkably positive user reviews.
"My kid likes it a lot and finds it interesting to observe the growth of these special plants," a customer review stated.
Over the decades, the plant seeds brought back from space have transcended their role in laborat Another successful hot-fire test for Ariane 6 upper stage
Sunday, 03 September 2023 10:50
On September 1 2023, teams from ArianeGroup, the German Aerospace Center and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully completed another hot-fire test on the test bench dedicated to the upper stage of the new Ariane 6 launcher, in Lampoldshausen (Germany).
The upper stage test sequence was representative of its operating phase during Ariane 6's inaugural flight. It involved more than 11 Copy and Paste at Gale Crater: Sols 3934-3935
Sunday, 03 September 2023 10:50
Earth planning date: Wednesday, August 30, 2023: Earth to Mars? Due to a communications issue, Curiosity didn't receive its instructions on time on Monday, leading to Curiosity taking an extended weekend break - just like its British colleagues!
Today, we're back on track with planning with a lot of discussions about the degree to which we should copy and paste the original plan intended f How does "MAD" accretion form around a black hole?
Sunday, 03 September 2023 10:50
An international scientific team has revealed for the first time the magnetic field transport processes in the accretion flow of a black hole and the formation of a "MAD"-a magnetically arrested disk-in the vicinity of a black hole. The researchers made the discovery while conducting multi-wavelength observational studies of an outburst event of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070, using