NASA’s Lucy Mission Prepares for Launch to Trojan Asteroids
Tuesday, 28 September 2021 16:59
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NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel, and is preparing to pack it into a capsule for launch Saturday, Oct. 16. Ariane 6 launch complex inaugurated at Europe’s Spaceport
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The new launch complex built for Europe’s upcoming Ariane 6 rocket is inaugurated at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Space Station port relocation explained – French with English subtitles
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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is on his second mission to the International Space Station called Alpha. In this video Thomas explains the process behind relocating the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour to another port on the Space Station.
NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough, JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide and Thomas flew to the International Space Station in Crew Dragon Endeavour as part of Crew-2. On 21 July the four astronauts got into their spacesuits and took their Dragon spacecraft for a spin to undock from the forward port of Harmony and redocked with the same module on another port.
Node 3 | Space Station 360 (in French with English subtitles available)
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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet takes you on a tour of the International Space Station like no other. Filmed with a 360 camera, the Space Station 360 series lets you explore for yourself alongside Thomas’s explanation – episode six is NASA’s Node-3, also known as Tranquility.
Node 3 has cylindrical hull 4.5 m in diameter with a shallow conical section enclosing each end. It is almost 7 m long and, together with the Space Station’s observatory Cupola, weighed over 13.5 tonnes at launch. Built in Europe, Node 3 houses the life-support equipment, the toilet and equipment racks.
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ESA orbiter will encounter Mercury October 1
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The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will make the first of six flybys of its destination planet on 1 October before entering orbit in 2025.
Hot on the heels of its last Venus flyby in August, the spacecraft's next exciting encounter is with Mercury at 23:34 UTC on 1 October (01:34 CEST 2 October). It will swoop by the planet at an altitude of about 200 km, capturing imagery and science data that will give scientists a tantalizing first taste of what's to come in the main mission.
Rocket Lab wins Space Force contract to develop new rocket system
Tuesday, 28 September 2021 10:06 Write a comment
California-based Rocket Lab has won a contract for $24.35 million from the U.S. Space Force to develop an upper stage for the company's Neutron rocket system.
The contract, announced Monday, cements the firm's commitment to becoming a launch provider for the nation's national security space program, according to a Rocket Lab news release.
The contract is part of a $75 million res Blue Origin plans second crewed space launch from Texas
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Blue Origin plans to launch people into space for the second time from Texas on Oct. 12, carrying two businessmen and two others to be announced later.
The NS-18 mission scheduled to lift off on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket at 9:30 a.m. EDT from the company's spaceport about 160 miles east of El Paso.
The two named crew members are Chris Boshuizen, a former NASA engineer and University teams demonstrate 'cool' new technologies for the Moon, Mars
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Ten university teams designed and built systems intended to harvest water frozen below the surface of the Moon and Mars. The teams put their prototypes to the test during the 2021 Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge held September 23-25 at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Taking top prize of $6,000 was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team fro Arkisys unveils first spacecraft element for The Port in Pasadena
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Arkisys has unveiled its first generation orbital outpost spacecraft element, the Port Module Wedge, planned for its first use on its initial Space Outpost in low earth orbit, as well as subsequent future missions and destinations.
Standing at approximately 1 meter tall and just over 1 meter wide, it is the core architectural component that defines the unique commercial-focused development China unveils gravitational-wave research center in Guangdong
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A gravitational-wave research center under the China National Space Administration (CNSA) was inaugurated on Sunday in the city of Zhuhai, in Guangdong province.
According to the CNSA, the gravitational-wave research center, located at the Zhuhai Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, will develop a series of experimental satellite platforms and payloads to promote China's space gravitational-w Tiny satellites will address sizeable questions in space science
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At NASA, "CuPID" and "CUTE" aren't just Valentine's Day buzzwords - they're the names of two satellite missions launching this fall. The Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector, or CuPID, will study the boundaries of Earth's magnetic field, to see how energy from the Sun can break through our planet's magnetic shield. The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment, or CUTE, will train its telescope on planets NASA seeks input from potential partners on next generation astromobile
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When astronauts journey to the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket beginning with the Artemis II mission, they will travel by more traditional ground transport as they head to the launch pad to board their spacecraft.
NASA is seeking input from industry through a Request for Information on the opportunity for private companies to work with NASA and either Russia, US plan to make more movies in space
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Russia and the United States are ready to cross new frontiers for filming movies in space as a way to promote growing commercialization of orbital spaceflight and beyond.
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, plans to launch a Russian actress, film director and cosmonaut to the International Space Station early next month to produce the first full-length feature film shot in space, with a work Masten Space Systems partners with AdaCore to land on the Moon's South Pole
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When Masten Space Systems was awarded a NASA contract to land scientific payloads on the Moon, the company chose to work with AdaCore's software development and verification tools for its XL-1 Lunar Lander spacecraft. Masten Space Systems will use the Ada and SPARK programming languages and AdaCore's GNAT Pro integrated development environment and SPARK Pro static analysis verification tools in