Washington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2023
Northrop Grumman's autonomous Cygnus spaceship will leave the International Space Station on Friday morning carrying away more than 8,000 pounds of trash from the orbiting laboratory, The S.S. Sally Ride, named after the first U.S. female astronaut, departed from the Unity module of the International Space Station at about 7:20 a.m. EDT. It burned n up in a planned re-entry into

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2023
Even as SpaceX said its Starship "flight termination system" worked as designed, Thursday's spectacular launch failure in Texas also revealed another potential issue with the program locally: explosive debris. The SpaceX rocket launch explosion rained debris over a wide area, shaking homes and covering nearby Port Isabel with brown grime for miles. Rob Nixon of San Benito, who wa

Starbase TX (AFP) Apr 23 2023
Flying chunks of concrete, twisted metal sheets, craters blasted deep into the ground: the thunderous power of SpaceX's first test flight of Starship - the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built - inflicted serious damage on its Texas launch site. Repairing the damage from Thursday's unmanned test flight is expected to take months, potentially delaying further launch attempts and slow

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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
Sidus Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIDU) has announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 30,303,030 shares of its Class A common stock, or pre-funded warrants (the "Pre-Funded Warrants") in lieu thereof, and 30,303,030 warrants. Each share of Class A common stock and accompanying warrant is being sold to the public at a combined price of $0.33. Each warrant allows the purchase of o

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2023
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently completed a critical design review for its Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), part of Space Development Agency's (SDA) low-earth orbit network designed to communicate vital information to wherever it's needed to support U.S. troops on the ground quickly and securely. The Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) communication satellites will provide

Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2023
Emphasizing that space capabilities are "important to our strategy of integrated deterrence" and the reason U.S. Space Force must drive "transformational" change, Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall offered a blunt assessment April 19 of the challenges today in space but also optimism that the United States would maintain its dominance in that domain. In a keynote address t

Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2023
Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Chance Saltzman April 19 praised the United States' proud and trailblazing history in space but said the rapidly changing and more dangerous domain requires new actions, thinking and focus. "This crowd is passionate about space; I see no signs of apathy," Saltzman said during his keynote speech at the 2023 Space Symposium, a large gathering of government, mi

Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 20, 2023
Cargo spacecraft is robotic spacecraft designed to support space station operation by transporting food, propellant and other supplies. Tianzhou cargo spacecraft (The abbreviation is TZ) is a Chinese automated cargo spacecraft developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, as part of China's manned space Station program. The China Academy of Space Technology began to design TZ in 2010.