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High drama as Russian lab module tilts space station with errant thruster firingsIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Jul 29, 2021• 1 min read
High drama as Russian lab module tilts space station with errant thruster firingsA heavyweight Russian laboratory module that experienced a variety of problems after launch last week docked at the International Space Station Thursday, but in a moment of unexpected drama, inadvertent thruster firings briefly knocked the sprawling complex out of its normal orientation.
Chinese Long March 2D carries Tianhui survey satellite into orbitIMAGE
nasaspaceflight.com• Jul 29, 2021• 1 min read
Chinese Long March 2D carries Tianhui survey satellite into orbitA Chinese Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia at 04:01 UTC today, July 29, carrying Tianhui 1-04, the fourth in China’s series of Tianhui 1 Earth observation satellites, into Low Earth Orbit.
Lucy spacecraft passes pre-shipment review, on track for October launchIMAGE
nasaspaceflight.com• Jul 26, 2021• 1 min read
Lucy spacecraft passes pre-shipment review, on track for October launchNASA and Lockheed Martin are another step closer to the launch of their Lucy Trojan Explorer mission, with the craft completing its pre-shipment review ahead of transportation to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in August.
NASA Previews Science on Next Northrop Grumman Space Station MissionIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jul 26, 2021• 1 min read
NASA Previews Science on Next Northrop Grumman Space Station MissionNASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 2, to discuss science investigations and technology demonstrations launching on Northrop Grumman’s 16th commercial resupply mission for the agency to the International Space Station.
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Bezos flies to space on Blue Origin’s first crew launchIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Jul 20, 2021• 1 min read
Bezos flies to space on Blue Origin’s first crew launchAmazon founder Jeff Bezos, his brother, a pioneering female pilot, and an 18-year-old Dutch student launched to the edge of space Tuesday on a 66-mile-high suborbital flight aboard his company’s New Shepard rocket, the latest achievement in a new era of billionaire-backed human spaceflight.
Boeing crew capsule mounted on Atlas 5 rocket for unpiloted test flightIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Jul 19, 2021• 1 min read
Boeing crew capsule mounted on Atlas 5 rocket for unpiloted test flightBoeing second Starliner crew ferry spacecraft rolled out of its factory early Saturday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for mounting on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket set for liftoff July 30 on a redo of a problem-plagued unpiloted test flight in 2019. The human-rated spaceship, which has yet to be cleared to fly astronauts, emerged from Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility near NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building before dawn Saturday, riding a spacecraft transporter for the several-mile journey to ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility at the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. ULA’s ground crew attached a four-point lifting sling for the overhead crane in the VIF to hoist the Starliner spacecraft atop the Atlas 5 rocket, which was already stacked on a mobile launch platform inside the vertical hangar. Teams completed work to attach the spacecraft to the Atlas 5 rocket over the weekend, setting the stage for an integrated systems test, a “tip-to-tail”
Hubble resumes science observations after month-long outageIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Jul 18, 2021• 1 min read
Hubble resumes science observations after month-long outageNASA said Saturday that the Hubble Space Telescope, now running on a backup payload computer, has resumed scientific observations after a failure knocked the aging observatory offline for more than a month.
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Blue Origin reveals fourth crew member for Bezos spaceflightIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Jul 15, 2021• 1 min read
Blue Origin reveals fourth crew member for Bezos spaceflightAn 18-year-old Dutch student will joint Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark and aviation pioneer Wally Funk next Tuesday when they blast off aboard the Amazon founder’s New Shepard rocket for its first sub-orbital flight to space with passengers on board.
Previewing EnVision: ESA’s newest mission to VenusIMAGE
nasaspaceflight.com• Jul 14, 2021• 1 min read
Previewing EnVision: ESA’s newest mission to VenusOn June 10, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that they had selected their next mission to Venus — EnVision. The mission, set to operate alongside NASA’s newly announced DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions, will study Earth’s sister planet in extreme detail.
SpaceX cargo capsule splashes down in Gulf of MexicoIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Jul 10, 2021• 1 min read
SpaceX cargo capsule splashes down in Gulf of MexicoWrapping up a 36-day mission to the International Space Station, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico Friday night with biomedical experiments, spacewalk equipment, and other hardware returning from orbit.
Richard Branson’s flight signals confidence in commercial space travelIMAGE
spaceflightnow.com• Jul 10, 2021• 1 min read
Richard Branson’s flight signals confidence in commercial space travelVirgin Galactic-founder Richard Branson and five company crewmates are set to take a barnstorming ride to space Sunday in a bold show of confidence in his company’s readiness to start carrying passengers on brief trips out of the atmosphere.
Artemis 1 ICPS stage from ULA added to SLS stackIMAGE
nasaspaceflight.com• Jul 9, 2021• 1 min read
Artemis 1 ICPS stage from ULA added to SLS stackNASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and prime launch processing contractor Jacobs hoisted the in-space stage for the Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle into High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and placed it on top of the stack, that is resting on Mobile Launcher-1, on July 6. Stacking of the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS), which will send an Orion spacecraft to the Moon on Artemis 1, comes a week after the interstage Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter (LVSA) was securely mated to the SLS Core Stage below.
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NASA Announces Public Meeting on Mission Equity, Request for InformationIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jul 6, 2021• 1 min read
NASA Announces Public Meeting on Mission Equity, Request for InformationNASA’s public meeting to discuss its recently issued request for information (RFI), entitled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities in NASA Programs, Contracts and Grants, will take place at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 13.
Five years on, Juno science reveals answers to zodiacal lights, Jovian aurorasIMAGE
nasaspaceflight.com• Jul 4, 2021• 1 min read
Five years on, Juno science reveals answers to zodiacal lights, Jovian aurorasJuno, NASA’s flagship mission to Jupiter, marks five years at the solar system’s largest planet today, having been in space for nearly 10 years since its launch. Juno quickly became one of NASA’s most scientifically important missions upon its arrival, with its Ultraviolet Spectrograph and Advanced Stellar Compass instruments used to reveal many unique scientific phenomena at Jupiter and throughout the solar system.