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Ahead of the launch of Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander on Monday, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has transported its new Vulcan rocket to the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Peregrine is the U.S.'s first privately developed lunar lander, and its launch is part of a broader global private corporate interest in commercially led lunar exploration. The Peregrine lunar lander will also mark the second time that a U.S. launch company has sent a private spacecraft to the lunar surface, and the mission will fly on ULA's Vulcan rocket along with an upgraded Centaur upper stage. […]
True to form, SpaceX is continuing to test its Starship rockets in Texas after it completed a record setting 96 missions to space late night yesterday. Friday has been a busy day at SpaceX's facilities in Boca Chica, Texas as the firm has fired up the engines for both stages of its Starship rocket system. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and the close of 2023 is seeing SpaceX move fast towards its third orbital test flight amidst chances that the upcoming test might also be the first that sees Starship attempt to deploy a payload to space. SpaceX Fires […]
With SpaceX continuing to head towards its third Starship integrated test flight, NASA is also testing the Starship upper stage's design suitability to let astronauts to live and work on the lunar surface. Starship is a central component of NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) lander for the Artemis program, and one major reason that it was selected for the multi billion dollar award was because of its volume. This volume, which allows NASA to deliver copious amounts of cargo to the lunar surface once Starship becomes operational, also means that astronauts must use an elevator to descend from their crew […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley on the first privately launched spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) tipped into the Atlantic Ocean late night yesterday as it was on its way back to land. The rocket was the first in SpaceX's fleet that undertook 19 consecutive successful missions, and it launched close to a thousand satellites into space after the NASA mission. Its latest launch was just before the holiday weekend when it flew with a batch of Starlink satellites and landed on SpaceX's 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' drone ship […]
A year after its Artemis 1 mission flew and returned from the Moon, NASA has shared new footage of how it feels to sit inside the Orion spacecraft while it returns to Earth. NASA's Artemis program will use Orion to transport astronauts from Earth to a near-moon orbit and then return them to the planet once the mission ends. It travels at a whopping 25,000 miles per hour and can touch temperatures as hot as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the return journey. This experience - auditory and visual - has been captured by cameras on the spacecraft. Loud Thumps Reverberate […]
SpaceX's CRS-29 mission from the International Space Station (ISS) departed from the orbiting space laboratory in the evening yesterday while it was flying above South America. The mission had flows to the ISS in early October and it carried a variety of payloads including science and research experiments. The CRS-29 mission was one of the more important ones in NASA's manifest as it carried crucial experiments such as laser communication and Earth imaging equipment to the ISS. Its liftoff in November marked SpaceX's 80th mission in 2023, with the ascent leg carrying 6,500 pounds of cargo. After separating from the […]
After its first flight was launched last year, NASA's Artemis program is moving full speed ahead as part of the space agency's efforts to establish a long-term human presence on the Moon. The Artemis program relies on the SLS rocket to power the Orion spacecraft to the Moon. Pushing the rocket to space are four RS-25 engines, and NASA tested one such engine at its Stennis Space Center in Mississippi earlier today. The tet was the third in a series of 12 tests that will certify a newer RS-25 variant before it can enter into production for future Artemis missions. […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is gearing up to make history next month as it prepares to launch the first American lunar lander in five decades. 21st-century NASA is different from the agency of the Apollo era since it has outsourced several crucial projects to the corporate sector. Among these is the Peregrine lunar lander, developed by Astrobotic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Peregrine is slated to fly on the United Launch Alliance's (ULA) brand-new Vulcan rocket on December 24th, and NASA officials shared details about the plan during a press teleconference earlier today. Onboard the lander will be several […]
Ahead of the launch of Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander on Monday, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has transported its new Vulcan rocket to the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Peregrine is the U.S.'s first privately developed lunar lander, and its launch is part of a broader global private corporate interest in commercially led lunar exploration. The Peregrine lunar lander will also mark the second time that a U.S. launch company has sent a private spacecraft to the lunar surface, and the mission will fly on ULA's Vulcan rocket along with an upgraded Centaur upper stage. […]
True to form, SpaceX is continuing to test its Starship rockets in Texas after it completed a record setting 96 missions to space late night yesterday. Friday has been a busy day at SpaceX's facilities in Boca Chica, Texas as the firm has fired up the engines for both stages of its Starship rocket system. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and the close of 2023 is seeing SpaceX move fast towards its third orbital test flight amidst chances that the upcoming test might also be the first that sees Starship attempt to deploy a payload to space. SpaceX Fires […]
With SpaceX continuing to head towards its third Starship integrated test flight, NASA is also testing the Starship upper stage's design suitability to let astronauts to live and work on the lunar surface. Starship is a central component of NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) lander for the Artemis program, and one major reason that it was selected for the multi billion dollar award was because of its volume. This volume, which allows NASA to deliver copious amounts of cargo to the lunar surface once Starship becomes operational, also means that astronauts must use an elevator to descend from their crew […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley on the first privately launched spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) tipped into the Atlantic Ocean late night yesterday as it was on its way back to land. The rocket was the first in SpaceX's fleet that undertook 19 consecutive successful missions, and it launched close to a thousand satellites into space after the NASA mission. Its latest launch was just before the holiday weekend when it flew with a batch of Starlink satellites and landed on SpaceX's 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' drone ship […]
A year after its Artemis 1 mission flew and returned from the Moon, NASA has shared new footage of how it feels to sit inside the Orion spacecraft while it returns to Earth. NASA's Artemis program will use Orion to transport astronauts from Earth to a near-moon orbit and then return them to the planet once the mission ends. It travels at a whopping 25,000 miles per hour and can touch temperatures as hot as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the return journey. This experience - auditory and visual - has been captured by cameras on the spacecraft. Loud Thumps Reverberate […]
SpaceX's CRS-29 mission from the International Space Station (ISS) departed from the orbiting space laboratory in the evening yesterday while it was flying above South America. The mission had flows to the ISS in early October and it carried a variety of payloads including science and research experiments. The CRS-29 mission was one of the more important ones in NASA's manifest as it carried crucial experiments such as laser communication and Earth imaging equipment to the ISS. Its liftoff in November marked SpaceX's 80th mission in 2023, with the ascent leg carrying 6,500 pounds of cargo. After separating from the […]
After its first flight was launched last year, NASA's Artemis program is moving full speed ahead as part of the space agency's efforts to establish a long-term human presence on the Moon. The Artemis program relies on the SLS rocket to power the Orion spacecraft to the Moon. Pushing the rocket to space are four RS-25 engines, and NASA tested one such engine at its Stennis Space Center in Mississippi earlier today. The tet was the third in a series of 12 tests that will certify a newer RS-25 variant before it can enter into production for future Artemis missions. […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is gearing up to make history next month as it prepares to launch the first American lunar lander in five decades. 21st-century NASA is different from the agency of the Apollo era since it has outsourced several crucial projects to the corporate sector. Among these is the Peregrine lunar lander, developed by Astrobotic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Peregrine is slated to fly on the United Launch Alliance's (ULA) brand-new Vulcan rocket on December 24th, and NASA officials shared details about the plan during a press teleconference earlier today. Onboard the lander will be several […]