SpaceX knocks out company's 50th Space Coast launch of the year
Monday, 05 August 2024 15:10
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SpaceX shot up three Falcon 9 rockets from three launch pads last weekend once the Federal Aviation Administration gave its grounded rocket the OK to return to flight. Now it's set to go another round.
First up was a Falcon 9 launch of 23 more Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A at 1:01 a.m. on what was SpaceX's 50th launch from the Space Coast for 2024.
The first-stage booster for the mission made its 12th flight with another recovery landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean on board the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
The launch was the 54th from all launch providers on the Space Coast with United Launch Alliance responsible for the other four.
The workhorse Falcon 9 has been tapped for 49 of SpaceX's 50 launches, while the year has had one lone Falcon Heavy liftoff so far.
SpaceX's record pace was slowed for a couple of weeks in July after an issue with the Falcon 9's upper stage during a launch from California that was tracked to a liquid oxygen leak blamed on a sense line connected to a supply tank.
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A tower on the moon could provide astronauts with light, power and guidance
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Technologies for enabling NASA's Artemis mission are coming thick and fast, as plenty of problems must be solved before a permanent human presence on the moon can be established. A novel idea from Honeybee Robotics, one of the most prominent space technology companies now owned by Blue Origin, could solve plenty of them with one piece of infrastructure.
The Lunar Utility Navigation with Advanced Remote Sensing and Autonomous Beaming for Energy Redistribution, or LUNARSABER (which must have been named by someone who really likes Star Wars), is a 100 m tall pole that can hold 1 ton of equipment on top of it. It could serve as a central power, communications, and lighting hub of an Artemis base and part of a mesh network with other places of interest on the Lunar surface.
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Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Cygnus freighter for space station
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A Falcon 9 rocket with a Cygnus supply freighter blasted off on a mission to the International Space Station on August 4, just a few days after a two-week break due to launch problems.
The freighter took off from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex in Florida and was broadcast online by NASA.
The flight is carrying instruments and cargo for water recovery and stem cell research in zero gravity experiments at the ISS.
It is expected to take around 40 hours for the Cygnus freighter to dock with the orbiting space station.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had suspended launches of private space company SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets for around two weeks from July 11 due to problems with the ignition of a second propulsion stage.
Sunday's launch was the 21st supply flight of a Cygnus freighter to the ISS.
The freighter is manufactured by Northrop Grumman, which is also a private company.
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Space is changing, and the number of actors operating in orbit is increasing. Meanwhile, the amount of data collected by satellites is increasing as well. This data-treasure is priceless, supporting human and robotic exploration of space, helping us to take care of our planet as well as to unveil the most distant secrets of the Universe. However, one of the main challenges of nowadays space activities is downloading data from space to Earth. IBM and KP Labs together with ESA is forecasting the future of technology by imagining space-based data centres.
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SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman mission to ISS
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SpaceX successfully launched a resupply mission for the International Space Station on Sunday after it was postponed Saturday because of unfavorable weather.
The space exploration company used a Falcon 9 rocket to launch the Cygnus spacecraft made by Northrop Grumman - best known as a defense contractor.
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