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SLS Core Stage thermal protection system refurbishment in work at Kennedy for Artemis 1IMAGE
nasaspaceflight.com• May 20, 2021• 1 min read
SLS Core Stage thermal protection system refurbishment in work at Kennedy for Artemis 1NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) programs are working with Core Stage prime contractor Boeing and prime test operations and support contractor Jacobs to finish repairs to thermal protection system (TPS) spray-on foam insulation on the Artemis 1 Core Stage at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Axelspace raises $24 million in Series C roundIMAGE
spacenews.com• May 13, 2021• 1 min read
Axelspace raises $24 million in Series C roundAxelspace, the Japanese firm planning to offer daily global optical imagery, raised 2.58 billion Japanese yen ($23.8 million) in a Series C investment round announced May 14 in Tokyo, May 13 in the United States.
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Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competitionIMAGE
spacenews.com• May 6, 2021• 1 min read
Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competitionGerman launch startup Isar Aerospace beat out Rocket Factory Augsburg and HyImpulse Technologies to win a DLR endorsement that clears the way for it to secure 11 million euros from the European Space Agency’s Boost! program.
Crew Dragon brings four astronauts back to nighttime splashdownIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• May 2, 2021• 1 min read
Crew Dragon brings four astronauts back to nighttime splashdownFour astronauts strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged to a fiery pre-dawn splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, closing out the first operational flight of SpaceX’s futuristic touch-screen ferry ship.
After NASA taps SpaceX’s Starship for first Artemis landings, agency looks to on-ramp future vehiclesIMAGE
nasaspaceflight.com• Apr 20, 2021• 1 min read
After NASA taps SpaceX’s Starship for first Artemis landings, agency looks to on-ramp future vehiclesFollowing a year of testing and development, NASA recently selected SpaceX’s Starship-based Human Landing System (HLS) to land astronauts on the moon under the Artemis program. SpaceX’s proposal was the highest rated and lowest cost offering among three studied designs, the others provided by Blue Origin’s National Team and Dynetics.
NASA chooses SpaceX to land next astronauts on the MoonIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Apr 17, 2021• 1 min read
NASA chooses SpaceX to land next astronauts on the MoonNASA has selected SpaceX to build a spacecraft to land the first astronauts on the moon since 1972, choosing Elon Musk’s space company over competing proposals from Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and the aerospace firm Dynetics, officials announced Friday.
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Blue Origin to rehearse for human passengers on suborbital flightIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Apr 13, 2021• 1 min read
Blue Origin to rehearse for human passengers on suborbital flightFinally on the cusp of launching people to the edge of space, Blue Origin plans to use a suborbital test flight of its New Shepard booster and crew capsule Wednesday to rehearse boarding and recovery procedures for future missions with paying passengers.
April 12 marks 60 years since Gagarin’s spaceflight, 40 years since shuttle debutIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Apr 12, 2021• 1 min read
April 12 marks 60 years since Gagarin’s spaceflight, 40 years since shuttle debutSixty years ago Monday, a 27-year-old Russian test pilot named Yuri Gagarin strapped into a Vostok capsule in Central Asia and rode into orbit atop a launcher derived from a Soviet nuclear missile, becoming the first human to travel into the void of space. Twenty years later, in 1981, the era of reusable spacecraft dawned with the first launch of NASA’s space shuttle.