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- SpaceX launches five BlueBird satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 12 Sep 2024 This was the first of the company’s first five commercial satellites for the BlueBird constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 4:52 a.m. EDT (0852 UTC).
- Avio Plans Introduction of Vega Next Rocket Beyond 2032 European Spaceflight · 12 Sep 2024 Italian rocket builder Avio has revealed that it plans to introduce its post-Vega-E “Vega Next” rocket beyond 2032. Last week the final flight of the original Vega rocket was completed, with the rocket successfully deplo...
- SpaceX Complains of Starship Licensing Delay As House Committee Questions FAA Regs SpacePolicyOnline.com · 12 Sep 2024 SpaceX is complaining about FAA delays in approving the license for the next Starship test flight. Their statement coincided with a House committee hearing on the FAA’s implementation of updated
- Polaris Dawn crew gears up for Thursday spacewalk Spaceflight Now · 12 Sep 2024 Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX crew trainer Sarah Gillis prepared to open the forward hatch of their Polaris Dawn spacecraft early Thursday to take turns floating outside in the first non-government spacewalk in t...
- Space industry execs urge DoD to expand commercial funding in defense programs SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 'The defense tech industry as a whole is at a crossroads'
- Polaris Dawn crew conduct first commercial spacewalk NASASpaceflight · 11 Sep 2024 Two days into their mission, the Polaris Dawn crew conducted the highlight of their mission on Thursday, with Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepping outside Dragon Resilience for the first EVA by commercial astronauts....
- U.S. Space Force budget falls short, officials warn SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 Officials say current funding levels are not enough to fill demands from military forces for satellite services and simultaneously modernize the entire military space architecture.
- The Marshall Star for September 11, 2024 NASA · 11 Sep 2024 Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign...
- NASA Evaluating 11 VIPER Proposals as Congress Asks Questions SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Sep 2024 NASA is evaluating 11 responses from organizations large and small that might want to take over the VIPER lunar rover project. NASA intends to cancel VIPER because of cost growth
- NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station NASA · 11 Sep 2024 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its number of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover period....
- NASA to Preview Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter Moon Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 11 Sep 2024 Targeting an Oct. 10 launch, Europa Clipper aims to determine whether Jupiter’s moon Europa potentially has the ingredients necessary for life.
- FCC says ‘our economy doesn’t benefit from monopolies’ in dig at SpaceX Starlink Teslarati · 11 Sep 2024 FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said the U.S. economy “doesn’t benefit from monopolies” in a dig at SpaceX’s Starlink. At a conference on...
- NASA to Preview Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter Moon NASA · 11 Sep 2024 NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The briefin...
- NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date NASA · 11 Sep 2024 The agency also shared new state-of-the-art datasets that allow scientists to track Earth’s temperature for any month and region going back to 1880 with greater certainty. August 2024 set a new monthly temperature record...
- Chile Flowers Bloom in Space NASA · 11 Sep 2024 In July 2021, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing chile peppers in the Advanced Plant Habitat, as part of the Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04) experiment. The astronauts and a team of researche...
- Soyuz MS-26 Crew Sets New Record of 19 People in Orbit SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Sep 2024 The launch of three new crew members to the International Space Station today is setting a new record for the number of people in orbit at one time. Two Russians
- The Next Full Moon is a Partial Lunar Eclipse; a Supermoon; the Corn Moon; and the Harvest Moon NASA · 11 Sep 2024 The next full Moon will be Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 10:35 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full from Monday evening through Thursday morning.
- NASA Remembers Sept. 11 NASA · 11 Sep 2024 The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were a national tragedy that resulted in a staggering loss of life and a significant change in American culture. Each year, we pause and remember. Beyond honoring the Americans who died that...
- NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 11 Sep 2024 Tests on Earth appear to confirm how the Red Planet’s spider-shaped geologic formations are carved by carbon dioxide.
- 9 Phenomena NASA Astronauts Will Encounter at Moon’s South Pole NASA · 11 Sep 2024 Out-of-this-world phenomena NASA astronauts will experience at the Moon’s south polar region.
- NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time NASA · 11 Sep 2024 Tests on Earth appear to confirm how the Red Planet’s spider-shaped geologic formations are carved by carbon dioxide. Since discovering them in 2003 via images from orbiters, scientists have marveled at spider-like shape...
- Inspiration Among the Stars: How Johnson’s Workforce Found Their Place in Space NASA · 11 Sep 2024 For some people, working for NASA is a lifelong dream. For others, it is an interesting and perhaps unexpected opportunity that comes up at just the right time and place. Everything from family ties and influential teach...
- Hera CubeSats’ touchdown ESA · 11 Sep 2024 Hera CubeSats’ touchdown
- Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) Description NASA · 11 Sep 2024 As the aviation industry evolves, new air vehicles and operators are entering the airspace. NASA is working to ensure these new diverse set of operations can be safely integrated into the current airspace. The agency is...
- EU Commits €100M to Improve Competitiveness of European Space Industry European Spaceflight · 11 Sep 2024 The European Commission announced 10 September that it has signed an agreement with SPACE AISBL to co-manage the European Partnership for Globally Competitive Space Systems initiative. Referred to simply as the Space Par...
- The future of Boeing’s crewed spaceflight program is muddy after Starliner’s return Ars Technica · 11 Sep 2024 "The final chapter on Starliner has not been written yet."
- The invisible battle for space dominance SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 As geopolitical tensions extend beyond Earth’s atmosphere, the U.S. Space Force is sharpening its focus on dominating the electromagnetic spectrum. Space electronic warfare — the art and science of protecting
- Soyuz MS-26 launches NASA and Roscosmos crew to ISS NASASpaceflight · 11 Sep 2024 The Soyuz MS-26 crewed mission has flown NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to the International Space Station (ISS). Launch took place on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 16:23 UTC...
- NASA Stennis Set to Continue ASTRA Mission with Sidus Space NASA · 11 Sep 2024 NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, announced Wednesday it will continue its historic in-space autonomous systems payload mission aboard an orbiting satellite through a follow-on agreement with S...
- U.S. space weather policy is alive and well but is insufficiently funded SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 Policy is not the impediment to increasing space weather preparedness in the United States; the lack of funding is. U.S. space weather policy is alive and well under the continued
- NASA astronaut Don Pettit makes fourth trip to the International Space Station Spaceflight Now · 11 Sep 2024 Pettit will fly to the orbiting outpost alongside Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner on the Soyuz MS-26 mission. Liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is set for 12:23 p.m. EDT (1623 UTC).
- Astroscale and ClearSpace get funds to advance double satellite de-orbit mission SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 The UK Space Agency has awarded funds to consortiums led by Astroscale and ClearSpace to continue developing a servicer capable of removing two spacecraft from low Earth orbit in 2026.
- Report highlights severe infrastructure challenges at NASA SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 A new report concludes that infrastructure and workforce challenges will soon require NASA to make tough choices about what missions to continue to conduct unless it receives a significant budget increase.
- Landspace completes 10-kilometer reusable rocket test, eyes 2025 orbital launch SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Landspace conducted a 10-kilometer vertical liftoff, vertical landing test at Jiuquan spaceport Wednesday as it develops a reusable orbital rocket. The Zhuque-3 VTVL-1 reusable vertical
- Episode 2 – Below the surface ESA · 11 Sep 2024 Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.
- Below the surface - ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission ESA · 11 Sep 2024 Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.
- Weak gravitational lensing: how Euclid maps dark matter ESA · 11 Sep 2024 ESA's Euclid mission is surveying the sky to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. But how can Euclid see the invisible? Watch this video to learn about the light-bending effect that enables scienti...
- Congress, industry criticize FAA launch licensing regulations SpaceNews · 11 Sep 2024 Members of Congress and the space industry criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for implementation of launch licensing regulations they claim threaten American competitiveness in space.
- Margin’ up the Crater Rim! NASA · 10 Sep 2024 To conclude its exploration of the mysterious margin unit before it ascends the rim of Jezero Crater, Perseverance made one last stop this past week to investigate these strange rocks at “Eremita Mesa.” Since beginning i...
- OneWeb launches alternative navigation service amid GPS vulnerability concerns SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 The new service uses a software-defined outdoor receiver that can access PNT signals from both traditional global navigation satellite systems and alternative sources such as Iridium satellites