Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024
Friday, 02 August 2024 12:10
Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024
Discover our week through the lens
SpaceX lines up next 2 Space Coast launches on Friday and Saturday
Friday, 02 August 2024 12:00
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 is a Falcon 9 launch of 23 more Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A during a four-hour window that opens at 12:19 a.m. Eastern Time August 2. Backup options fall to early August 3 starting at 12:19 a.m.
Space Launch Delta 45's weather squadron forecasts a 95% chance of favorable conditions, which drops to 80% in the event of a 24-hour delay.
The first-stage booster for the mission is making its 12th flight and will attempt a recovery landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean on board the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
The launch would be the 54th from the Space Coast for the year and 50th for SpaceX with United Launch Alliance responsible for the other four.
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.
NASA pushes Boeing Starliner return meeting to at least next week
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:50
Despite NASA officials last week stating a return readiness review might happen this week for Boeing's Starliner, teams instead continue to go over data for the spacecraft before any decision on its departure from the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams await the decision of whether or not they will be able to climb back aboard the spacecraft for its return to Earth to complete the Crew Flight Test mission. That readiness review was pushed to next week at the earliest, according to an update from NASA.
The duo launched aboard Starliner atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station back on June 5 for what was originally planned to be about an eight-day mission to the ISS. On their way to a June 6 docking, though, the spacecraft suffered failures on five of its 28 reaction control thrusters as well as several helium leaks in the service module that houses the thrusters.
NASA and Boeing decided to perform ground tests on a similar thruster to mimic conditions on the flight up and what the thrusters would face on the way back down to Earth as well as using a former service module that was never launched to figure out the likely reason behind the helium leaks.
NASA and Boeing Progress on Crew Flight Test Data Evaluation
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
Graphene Discovered in Lunar Soil Sample from Chang'e 5 Mission
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
Key Insights into Rapid Formation of Giant Planets
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
Euclid Invites Public to Help Classify Galaxy Shapes
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
ATLAS Space Operations swiftly integrates TROPICS spacecraft
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
Skylo and Particle Enhance IoT Development with Satellite Connectivity
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
Reticulate Micro Unveils $10M Regulation A Capital Raise
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
NASA Project Pioneers Future of Rocket Manufacturing
Friday, 02 August 2024 11:43
China launches second secretive high orbit internet satellite
Friday, 02 August 2024 09:49

Pentagon advisory panel urges integration of commercial space tech for military use
Friday, 02 August 2024 01:00
