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NASA and Space Force cooperate on near Earth object data
SpaceNews · 15 Apr 2022
NASA has hailed an agreement with the Space Force to share information on near Earth object impacts as a key step forward in planetary defense, even as the agency defers work on a mission it says is critical to tracking...
NASA halts third attempt at SLS practice countdown
SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2022
NASA cut short a third attempt to load propellants onto the Space Launch System for a countdown rehearsal April 14 after encountering several problems, including a hydrogen leak.
NASA Invites Media to Cover Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 Mission
NASA · 14 Apr 2022
Media accreditation is open for prelaunch and launch activities for NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station, the second uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starlin...
Space domain awareness: A secret weapon against shadowy threats in orbit
SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2022
KBR, a Defense Department and NASA contractor with $6 billion in annual sales, paid $800 million in 2020 to acquire Centauri, a company focused on space sensors and satellite tracking. The acquisition gave KBR an entry i...
Commercial crew has no problem adapting to life on space station
Spaceflight Now · 14 Apr 2022
The first NASA-sanctioned all-private crew to visit the International Space Station has had few problems adapting to weightlessness, but a non-stop schedule of proprietary research and public outreach has left little “wi...
Hydrogen leak halts tanking test for Artemis moon rocket
Spaceflight Now · 14 Apr 2022
A hydrogen leak near the connection between NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket and its mobile launch platform foiled another attempt Thursday to pump cryogenic propellants into the towering mega-booster at the Kenned...
CAPSTONE cubesat ready for cislunar mission
SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2022
NASA’s intention to replant bootprints on the moon is getting a kick-start by the launch of a microwave oven-sized smallsat, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, cal...
NASA calls off modified Artemis 1 Wet Dress Rehearsal for hydrogen leak
NASASpaceflight · 14 Apr 2022
NASA tried again at a third attempt on April 14 to complete the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) test on its Artemis 1 vehicle. The integrated Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 1 will be launched...
NASA shifts Earth science mission to previously flown Falcon 9
SpaceNews · 14 Apr 2022
NASA’s embrace of reused rockets continued with an agreement this month to switch the upcoming launch of an Earth science satellite from a new to a previously flown Falcon 9, a change whose full terms remain proprietary.
NASA to Discuss Initial Findings from Artemis Moon Mission Modified Test
NASA · 14 Apr 2022
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 15, to discuss the wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s...
ESA ends cooperation with Russia on lunar missions
SpaceNews · 13 Apr 2022
ESA announced April 13 it was further cutting ties with Russia by dropping plans to cooperate on a series of lunar missions, turning instead to NASA and other agencies.
NASA Sets Coverage for Russian Spacewalks Outside Space Station
NASA · 13 Apr 2022
NASA will provide coverage of spacewalks Monday, April 18, and Thursday, April 28, as Russian cosmonauts venture outside the International Space Station to activate a new robotic arm attached to the Nauka module.
NASA’s Perseverance rover spots its own parachute on Mars
Spaceflight Now · 13 Apr 2022
More than a year after arriving on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted its supersonic parachute and part of its aeroshell sitting on the surface of the Red Planet as the robot heads for its next scientific target...
NASA restarts moon rocket wet dress rehearsal countdown
Spaceflight Now · 12 Apr 2022
NASA restarted a two-day dress-rehearsal countdown Tuesday for the agency’s new Space Launch System moon rocket after a series of unrelated glitches, mostly involving ground systems, blocked two earlier attempts to fully...
NASA, UAE Mars Missions Agree to Share Science Data
NASA · 12 Apr 2022
NASA’s MAVEN mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Probe mission are paving the way toward greater scientific collaboration and data exchange between the two Mars orbiters.
NASA defends decision to proceed with modified SLS countdown test
SpaceNews · 12 Apr 2022
NASA officials defended their decision to proceed with a modified version of a countdown rehearsal for the Space Launch System that does not involve fueling the rocket’s upper stage, saying they’ll wait until after the t...
NASA Awards Contracts for Aerospace Testing and Facilities Operations
NASA · 11 Apr 2022
NASA has awarded a contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California with support services for ground-based aerospace test facilities a...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Astronauts to Discuss Mission, Splashdown
NASA · 11 Apr 2022
As they prepare to return to Earth later this month, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts will answer media questions about their time aboard the International Space Station during an in-orbit news conference at 1:20 p.m. EDT...
NASA to Discuss Plans Today for Artemis Moon Mission Modified Test
NASA · 11 Apr 2022
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT today, Monday, April 11, to provide an update on the final major test of the agency’s mega Moon rocket and spacecraft on the launch pad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Ce...
NASA to delay, modify SLS countdown rehearsal
SpaceNews · 9 Apr 2022
After discovering a problem with a valve on the Space Launch System’s upper stage, NASA is delaying a countdown rehearsal and fueling test and modifying it to limit fueling of the upper stage.
Citing valve problem, NASA will load only the SLS core stage in next countdown test
Spaceflight Now · 9 Apr 2022
A problem with a helium valve on the Space Launch System moon rocket’s upper stage will require ground teams to only partially load the giant launcher with cryogenic propellants during an upcoming countdown dress rehears...
First-of-its-kind commercial astronaut mission heads for space station
Spaceflight Now · 8 Apr 2022
Strapped in the seats of a SpaceX crew capsule, a retired NASA astronaut and three wealthy paying passengers rocketed into orbit Friday from the Kennedy Space Center on the first fully commercial mission to the Internati...
NASA Awards Contract for Modeling, Simulation Capabilities to ANSYS
NASA · 7 Apr 2022
NASA has awarded ANSYS Inc of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, a contract to provide a suite of modeling and simulation tools including capabilities in the following engineering disciplines: structures, crash, thermal, fluids,...
Artemis lunar lander contenders revisit team rosters for round two
SpaceNews · 7 Apr 2022
Companies interested in a NASA competition for a second Artemis lunar lander are using this week’s 37th Space Symposium to find partners that may result in different teams than the earlier lander competition.
ESA continues talks with NASA on ExoMars cooperation
SpaceNews · 7 Apr 2022
The European Space Agency is continuing discussions with NASA on how the agencies can work together to revive ESA’s ExoMars mission after ending cooperation with Russia.
SpaceX ready for launch of first all-commercial crew to space station
Spaceflight Now · 7 Apr 2022
SpaceX and a Houston company are gearing up to launch four private citizens Friday on the first NASA-sanctioned, fully commercial flight to the International Space Station, a key step in a government push to encourage pr...
SLS countdown test on hold after second scrub
SpaceNews · 6 Apr 2022
After a series of problems scrubbed a second countdown rehearsal for the Space Launch System April 4, NASA will wait until after the launch of a SpaceX mission to the space station before trying again.