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- D-Orbit enters GEO in-orbit servicing market SpaceNews · 14 Oct 2024 MILAN – Italian space logistics company D-Orbit announced a 119.6 million euro ($131 million) contract with the European Space Agency for a spacecraft servicing vehicle. Under the contract announced Oct.
- SpaceX launches $5.2 billion NASA mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon, Europa Spaceflight Now · 14 Oct 2024 The mission featured the launch of NASA’s largest spacecraft bound on a planetary mission. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A happened 12:06 p.m. EDT (1606 UTC).
- Hera’s first images offer parting glimpse of Earth and Moon ESA · 14 Oct 2024 ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence has taken its first images using three of the instruments that will be used to explore and study the asteroids Dimorphos and Didymos.
- CNES Contracts Cegelec for Common Systems of Microlauncher Launch Complex European Spaceflight · 14 Oct 2024 The French space agency CNES has selected Cegelec Projets Espace to design and manufacture the cryogenic and conventional fluid systems for the new Guiana Space Centre’s new multi-user commercial launch complex. CNES ann...
- NASA Spotlight: Felipe Valdez, an Inspiring Engineer NASA · 14 Oct 2024 Felipe Valdez is someone who took advantage of every possible opportunity at NASA, working his way from undergraduate intern to his current job as a flight controls engineer. Born in the United States but raised in Mexic...
- IAC 2024 - Day 1 ESA · 14 Oct 2024 Attending the ceremony the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella and Adolfo Urso, Italian Minister of Economic Development.
- Juice and Europa Clipper: Dream team to Jupiter ESA · 14 Oct 2024 What’s better than one spacecraft on the quest to search for life-friendly ocean worlds in the Jupiter system? Two! ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is set to join forces with NASA’s Europa Clipper – launched on...
- French startup gets state-backed seed funds for VLEO broadband constellation SpaceNews · 14 Oct 2024 France’s state-backed Expansion Ventures fund has invested about $10 million in Constellation Technologies & Operations, a two-year-old French startup with plans for 1500 small 5G broadband satellites in very low Earth o...
- Europa Clipper ready for launch SpaceNews · 14 Oct 2024 NASA and SpaceX are ready to launch a multibillion-dollar mission to a moon of Jupiter to see if that world could support life.
- Europa Clipper Ready for Launch Tomorrow SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Oct 2024 NASA, SpaceX, and the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron gave the green light this afternoon for Europa Clipper to launch tomorrow at 12:06 pm ET. The weather is 95...
- Vast releases design of Haven-2 commercial space station SpaceNews · 13 Oct 2024 Vast Space unveiled the design of the space station it plans to propose to NASA in the next phase of the agency’s program to develop commercial successors to the International Space Station.
- Sols 4331-4333: Today’s Rover ABC – Aurora, Backwards Driving, and Chemistry, with a Side of Images NASA · 13 Oct 2024 Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 11, 2024 This blogger is in the United Kingdom, just north of London, where we yesterday had beautiful night skies with a red aurora that was even visible with the unaided eye, and looke...
- SpaceX pulls off mid-air launch pad capture of descending Super Heavy booster Spaceflight Now · 13 Oct 2024 In one of the most dramatic, high-risk space flights to date, SpaceX launched a gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship rocket on an unpiloted test flight Sunday and then used giant "mechazilla" robot arms on the pad gantry to p...
- Journey to a Water World: NASA’s Europa Clipper Is Ready to Launch Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 13 Oct 2024 Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to search for ingredients of life at Jupiter’s moon Europa.
- SpaceX navigates Q3 anomalies, starting ambitious Q4 goals NASASpaceflight · 13 Oct 2024 SpaceX’s record-breaking streak of successful launches and landings ended during the third quarter of 2024, having suffered a failure during launch with Falcon 9’s second stage and a Falcon 9 first stage landing failure....
- What’s Happening in Space Policy October 13-19, 2024 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Oct 2024 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of October 13-19, 2024 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess...
- NASA Welcomes Estonia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 13 Oct 2024 While in Milan for international meetings, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was among the witnesses as Estonia signed the Artemis Accords and became the 45th nation to join the United States and other signatories agreeing...
- SpaceX launches fifth Starship, catches Super Heavy booster SpaceNews · 13 Oct 2024 SpaceX launched its fifth Starship vehicle Oct. 13, successfully making an unprecedented “catch” of its Super Heavy booster back at the launch site.
- SpaceX aces fifth Starship test flight with successful Super Heavy booster catch Teslarati · 13 Oct 2024 SpaceX aced its fifth Starship test flight this morning, known as Integrated Test Flight 5 (IFT-5), after gaining licensing from the Federal...
- SpaceX Catches a Booster — a Big One SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Oct 2024 SpaceX succeeded today in catching its biggest booster, Super Heavy, back at the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. Standing 71 meters tall and 9 meters in diameter, the booster...
- SpaceX’s Starship rocket completes fifth test flight, lands booster in dramatic catch CNBC · 13 Oct 2024 SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday and made a dramatic first catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster.
- A Serendipitous NASA Family Reunion NASA · 13 Oct 2024 Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that one day she would work at NASA. Today, she serves as technical project coordinator at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, supporting its Aeronautic...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to attempt first booster catch during the Starship Flight 5 mission Spaceflight Now · 13 Oct 2024 The launch continues SpaceX’s advancement of the rocket, which is key not only to its ambitions, but also to NASA’s Artemis program. Liftoff from Starbase is set for 7 a.m. CDT (1200 UTC), the start of a 30-minute launch...
- Astronomers find evidence of a volcanic exomoon NASASpaceflight · 13 Oct 2024 Astronomers have found evidence for a volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635 light-years from Earth. No moons have been confirmed to orbit planets outside our solar system, but a sodium cloud hints at the existence of o...
- Can Life Exist on an Icy Moon? NASA’s Europa Clipper Aims to Find Out Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 13 Oct 2024 With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for life in the ocean below Europa’s icy crust.
- Can Life Exist on an Icy Moon? NASA’s Europa Clipper Aims to Find Out NASA · 13 Oct 2024 With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for life in the ocean below Europa’s icy crust. Deep down, in an ocean beneath its ice shell, Jupite...
- NASA Updates Coverage for Europa Clipper Following Hurricane Milton Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 13 Oct 2024 Find details on teleconferences with mission members and NASA leadership, the launch preview, and the live launch broadcast.
- Space Trifecta on Tap Tomorrow Morning SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Oct 2024 A space trifecta of sorts is coming up tomorrow morning, October 13. At the moment, within an hour-and-a-half NASA’s Crew-8 will depart the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch the...
- NASA Activates Resources to Help Assess Impacts from Hurricane Milton NASA · 12 Oct 2024 In the wake of Hurricane Milton, NASA is deploying resources to support Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state emergency management agencies to aid their response effort including satellite and aerial data...
- FAA Approves Starship IFT-5 Test Flight Tomorrow SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Oct 2024 Today the FAA approved SpaceX’s plan to launch the fifth Integrated Flight Test, IFT-5, of its Starship/Super Heavy rocket. In fact, the FAA approved multiple launches using the IFT-5 profile...
- SpaceX Catches a Super Heavy Booster During a Milestone Flight 5 NASASpaceflight · 12 Oct 2024 Flight 5
- Anduril and Impulse Space to collaborate on AI-driven satellite mobility SpaceNews · 12 Oct 2024 The companies will seek to demonstrate "highly maneuverable space missions" for national security applications
- Boeing plans more commercial crew charges SpaceNews · 12 Oct 2024 Boeing expects to take up to several hundred million dollars in additional charges against earnings for its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program in the third quarter.
- FAA Approves Falcon 9 Return to Flight SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Oct 2024 The FAA approved the return to flight of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket late this afternoon. Space X suspended all Falcon 9 launches after a second stage anomaly on September 28...
- FAA allows Falcon 9 launches to resume SpaceNews · 11 Oct 2024 The FAA will allow SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 flights after an upper stage anomaly nearly two weeks ago as the company awaits approval for its next Starship launch.
- Sols 4329-4330: Continuing Downhill NASA · 11 Oct 2024 Earth planning date: Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024 Curiosity is continuing to make good progress downhill along the western edge of the Gediz Vallis channel, allowing us to take another look from a different perspective at thi...
- The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon, and the Hunter’s Moon NASA · 11 Oct 2024 The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon; the Hunter’s Moon; the Travel Moon, the Dying Grass Moon, or the Sanguine or Blood Moon; the start of Sukkoth; Sharad Purnima, Kumara Purnima, Kojagari Purnima, Navanna Purnima Kojagrat...
- NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 NASA · 11 Oct 2024 In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize Hispanic astronauts who have flown in space. The table below lists these individuals of various nationalities who have made significant contributions to their space progr...
- NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-8 Return, Splashdown NASA · 11 Oct 2024 NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 7:05 a.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 13, for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to undock from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown time...
- Ancient Comet Makes Appearance NASA · 11 Oct 2024 NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this timelapse photo of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) International Space Station as it orbited 272 miles above the South Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand just before...