One year ago, a perfect launch for the James Webb Space Telescope
Monday, 19 December 2022 09:00
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The voice counted backwards in French from ten to one, then announced, “Décollage” – lift-off. The 15-year-long collaboration between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency had just entered its most critical phase: the launch itself. What happened next would determine whether the James Webb Space Telescope made it into space or not.
One ESA: now in six languages
Monday, 19 December 2022 08:40 Write a comment
One ESA: now in six languages
The One ESA brochure explores ESA’s establishments and how they work together on European space missions. The brochure is printed in English and is available as a PDF and interactive format in five additional languages.
Rocket Lab scrubs first U.S. Electron launch over high winds
Monday, 19 December 2022 04:16 Write a comment
U.S. launch and space systems company Rocket Lab called off its Sunday evening liftoff of its first Electron rocket mission from the United States over upper-level high winds.
The launch at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was scrubbed with less than a dozen minutes left in the count down.
"All stations, unfortunately, we are going to be no go today," the launch directo SpaceX launches 54 Starlink communication satellites
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket in Florida on Saturday carrying 54 Starlink Internet satellites.
The Falcon 9 was launched from Kennedy Space Center and was making its 15th flight to space. The rocket's first stage returned to Earth just under nine minutes later, landing on a SpaceX robotic drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.
The satellites will ad L3Harris to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7 billion
Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:02 Write a comment
L3Harris Technologies on Dec. 18 announced an agreement to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7 billion.
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Space crew using robotic arm to inspect damaged capsule
Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:46 Write a comment
The crew of the International Space Station on Sunday was inspecting an attached Russian space capsule that may have been damaged by a micrometeorite, while ground controllers considered whether to send up a replacement spaceship to ferry some of them home.
Russia's space corporation, Roscosmos, said the crew was using a camera on a Canadian-built robotic arm to capture images of the Soyuz MS-22 where a coolant leak was detected last Wednesday night, U.S. time. After the images are transmitted to the ground on Monday, space officials will analyze them—along with other data about the problem—by month's end and decide on next steps.
One option, Roscomos said, is to expedite the delivery of another Soyuz capsule to the space station. Workers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are preparing to launch Soyuz MS-23 to the space station next March with three crew members but could send it up sooner without a crew. That would allow some of the seven crew now on the space station to return home.
A Russian space official said last Thursday a micrometeorite could have caused the leak.
NASA signs spaceflight safety agreement with AST SpaceMobile
Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:10 Write a comment
NASA has signed an agreement with AST SpaceMobile to cooperate on spaceflight safety, even as astronomers grow increasingly concerned about the effects of that company’s satellites.
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SpaceX launches two broadband satellites for Luxembourg firm
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched two high-power broadband satellites for a Luxembourg firm's new communications system toward orbit Friday evening from Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket's second stage was to place the first two O3b mPOWER satellites into orbit to join Luxembourg-based SES's 20 first-generation O3b Internet satellites.
SES is a satellite telecommunications network with 67 c China launches one more space experiment satellite
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
China launched a Long March 11 carrier rocket early on Friday afternoon to transport an experimental satellite into space, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor.
The rocket blasted off at 2:17 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China's Sichuan province and soon placed the Shiyan 21 satellite into its preset o GKN Aerospace and ArianeGroup extend partnership on Ariane 6 rocket engine subsystems
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
GKN Aerospace has signed a contract with ArianeGroup to supply the next phase of Ariane 6 turbines and Vulcain nozzles. The contract includes the manufacturing and supply of units for the next 14 Ariane 6 launchers, to be produced from now until 2025.
GKN Aerospace, at its Trollhattan site in Sweden, is currently focused on industrializing and integrating novel, innovative technology into NASA conducts first test of redesigned Lunar rocket engine at Stennis
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
NASA conducted the first test of the newly redesigned RS-25 engine for future flights of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Dec. 14, completing 209.5 seconds of a scheduled 500 second hot fire at the agency's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
The hot fire test was shut down early by a non-flight system used to monitor the engine. NASA and Space Launch System lead engi AstroAccess successfully completes first weightless research flight with international disabled crew
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
AstroAccess, a project dedicated to promoting disability inclusion in space, announced the successful completion of its first formal research flight 'AA2' onboard Zero-G Corporation's aircraft. The flight included 14 disabled crew members from five different countries: Australia, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and the US.
The Zero-G aircraft ascended to an altitude of 25,000 feet, at which point Seismic waves revealed possible past meteoroid impact
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a massive object, such as a meteoroid. Previous data has suggested the past occurrence of a large impact, and the findings offer evidence that might support this hypothesis.
The research, led by UCLA planetary scientists and published in two papers in Geophysical Research L NASA developing AI to steer using landmarks on the Moon
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
Much like how familiar landmarks can give travelers a sense of direction when their smart phones lose their lock on GPS signals, a NASA engineer is teaching a machine to use features on the Moon's horizon to navigate across the lunar surface.
"For safety and science geotagging, it's important for explorers to know exactly where they are as they explore the lunar landscape," said Alvin Yew, Perseverance rover to begin building Martian sample depot
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:47 Write a comment
In the coming days, NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world. This will mark a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars Sample Return campaign, which aims to bring Mars samples to Earth for closer study.
The depot-building process starts when the rover drops one of its titanium sample tubes carrying a chalk-size c