Week in images: 06-10 February 2023
Friday, 10 February 2023 13:10
Week in images: 06-10 February 2023
Discover our week through the lens
India’s SSLV rocket succeeds in second try
Friday, 10 February 2023 12:55
India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) put three satellites into low Earth orbit Feb.
House and Senate plan new NASA authorization bills
Friday, 10 February 2023 11:55
The chair of the Senate Commerce Committee says she will push for a multiyear NASA authorization bill, mirroring plans by her House counterpart.
Blue Origin wins first NASA business for New Glenn
Friday, 10 February 2023 10:49
Blue Origin has won its first NASA award for its New Glenn rocket, with the agency selecting the large rocket to launch a pair of Martian smallsats.
Women and girls in science: the team helping to take us to Mars
Friday, 10 February 2023 09:00
ESA celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science this 11 February, and highlights the story of the first all-female Systems Team in ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility, the place where ideas for new space missions, systems and structures take definite shape.
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Can you spot it? Juice on final stretch for launch to Jupiter
Friday, 10 February 2023 08:10
ESA’s mission to explore Jupiter and its largest moons has safely arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, where final preparations for its April launch are now underway.
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – better known as Juice – arrived on 8 February at Félix Eboué airport in Cayenne by a special Antonov Airlines An-124 cargo flight from Toulouse, France, where prime contractor Airbus completed a nearly decade-long process of concept, design, testing and construction. Now, the spacecraft will undergo final testing and inspection by engineers from ESA and Airbus before it is fueled up and mounted on
Earth from Space: Swedish landscape
Friday, 10 February 2023 08:00
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Agricultural fields that surround the cities of Lund and Malmö in Sweden are pictured in this image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. SpaceX ignites giant Starship rocket in crucial pad test
Friday, 10 February 2023 07:33
SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad on Thursday.
Thirty-one of the 33 first-stage booster engines ignited simultaneously for about 10 seconds in south Texas. The team turned off one engine before sending the firing command and another engine shut down—"but still enough engines to reach orbit!" tweeted SpaceX's Elon Musk.
Musk estimates Starship's first orbital test flight could occur as soon as March, if the test analyses and remaining preparations go well.
China space station crew completes spacewalk
Friday, 10 February 2023 07:33
The crew of China's orbiting space station has completed the first of several planned spacewalks of their six-month mission, pushing such activities into the realm of routine for the country's astronauts.
ISRO launches second Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-SSLV-D2
Friday, 10 February 2023 07:18
The Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) successfully lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the island of Sriharikota, India on Thursday at 9:18 a.m. local time (03:48 UTC), six months after its SSLV-D1 maiden flight in August 2022, which failed to reach a stable orbit.
An analysis "revealed that there was a vibration disturbance for a short duration on the Equipment Bay (EB) SES, ThinKom and Hughes enable multi-orbit resilient connectivity for critical airborne missions
Friday, 10 February 2023 07:18
SES, ThinKom and Hughes demonstrated revolutionary high-performance multi-orbit service capable of supporting multiple solutions for government airborne missions, the companies announced Wednesday. The open architecture ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal was successfully demonstrated over SES's Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satellite networks during testing at Thi SpaceX test fires Starship Super Heavy Booster's 31 Engines
Friday, 10 February 2023 04:36
On Thursday afternoon, at around 3:14 p.m. CST (2114 GMT) , SpaceX conducted a critical milestone towards an orbital test with a full duration static fire test, by simultaneously igniting all 33 next-generation Raptor engines of Booster 7 from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas at Boca Chica Beach, located on the Gulf Coast east of Brownsville.
When NASA conducts first 2023 test of redesigned SLS rocket engine
Friday, 10 February 2023 04:36
NASA's newly redesigned RS-25 engine for future flights of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, underwent its first hot fire test of the year on Feb. 8 at the agency's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
The series of testing supports production of new RS-25 engines by lead SLS engine contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne. The new engines will help power future Artemis missions NASA's ESCAPADE mission headed to Mars in 2024 on Blue Origin's New Glenn
Friday, 10 February 2023 04:36
Blue Origin, LLC of Kent, Washington, has been contracted by NASA to launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission through their Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) program.
Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, thus far, has only conducted suborbital flights using its New Shepard rocket, known for sending celebrities and space to