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- Astronaut Frank Culbertson Letter from September 11, 2001 NASA · 10 Sep 2024 Editor’s Note:The following is the text of a letter from Expedition Three Commander Frank L. Culbertson (Captain, USN Retired), reflecting on the events of September 11. September 12, 2001; 7:34 p.m. I haven’t written ve...
- SpaceX explains Starship test flight delay, reveals new target date Teslarati · 10 Sep 2024 SpaceX issued a statement regarding the extensive delays related to Starship’s fifth test flight (IFT-5). The aerospace company also revealed a new...
- Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Ames NASA · 10 Sep 2024 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. SpaceX, the commercial Human Landing System (HLS) provi...
- A Starry View NASA · 10 Sep 2024 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has infrared vision that lets us peer through the dusty veil of nearby star-forming region NGC 1333. We can see planetary mass objects, newborn stars, and brown dwarfs; some of the faint...
- U.S. military investing in reentry vehicles for space-to-Earth cargo delivery SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 Two California-based companies, Inversion Space and Outpost Space, have secured more than $100 million in defense and private investments under the Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) program
- Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap NASA · 10 Sep 2024 The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged. Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with th...
- Childhood Snow Days Transformed Linette Boisvert into a Sea Ice Scientist NASA · 10 Sep 2024 Linette Boisvert turned a childhood love of snow into a career as a sea ice scientist studying climate change. Name: Linette BoisvertTitle: Assistant Lab Chief, Cryospheric Sciences Branch, and Deputy Project Scientist f...
- 15 Years Ago: Japan launches HTV-1, its First Resupply Mission to the Space Station NASA · 10 Sep 2024 On Sept. 10, 2009, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched its first cargo delivery spacecraft, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-1 (HTV-1), to the International Space Station. The HTV cargo vehicles, also called...
- Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 10 Sep 2024 The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged.
- SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn, taking astronauts to heights not seen in decades Teslarati · 10 Sep 2024 SpaceX officially launched the Polaris Dawn mission, which lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early on Tuesday morning. The mission is...
- Sols 4300-4301: Rippled Pages NASA · 10 Sep 2024 Earth planning date: Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 With today’s plan, Curiosity completes its most southerly planned exploration of the Gediz Vallis channel. From here, our rover will head north and climb out of the channel to e...
- 30 Years Ago: STS-64 Astronauts Test a Spacewalk Rescue Aid NASA · 10 Sep 2024 On Sept. 9, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took to the skies on its 19th trip into space. During their 11-day mission, the STS-64 crew of Commander Richard “Dick” N. Richards, Pilot L. Blaine Hammond, and Mission Speciali...
- Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration NASA · 10 Sep 2024 Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA’s EXCITE mission. As a scientist at Goddard, Helson helped make this balloon-based telescope a reality: EXCITE launched successfu...
- Interlune reveals details of quest to bring home lunar resources SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 SAN FRANCISCO – Without context, Interlune’s plan to extract Helium-3 from lunar regolith to fulfill terrestrial demand sounds improbable. Even Interlune co-founder and chief technology officer Gary Lai was skeptical
- Why space is the next frontier to accelerate medical research SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 Early Tuesday morning, Polaris Dawn flew through the atmosphere, taking its four crewmembers to the highest altitude humans have experienced since the Apollo era, where they will conduct the first
- U.S. Space Force seeks industry input on automating hybrid satellite networks SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 The Space Force's Commercial Satellite Communications Office issued a request for information on automated satcom network orchestration
- A look back at Sentinel-2C's ride into space on Vega ESA · 10 Sep 2024 The third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2C, has launched aboard the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 5 September at 03:50 CEST (4 September 22:...
- $1,000 to LEO: South Korea’s reusable rocket plan targets SpaceX’s dominance SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 SEOUL, South Korea — The chief of South Korea’s newly established space agency recently unveiled a set of ambitious mid- and long-term projects, including developing a partially reusable rocket capable
- Rosetta's legacy: how were you inspired? ESA · 10 Sep 2024 From inspiring a love for the stars to making a life-changing career move, we want to know how ESA’s Rosetta mission has shaped your life.
- Boeing plots 2026 quantum networking satellite demo SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 Boeing plans to deploy a small satellite in 2026 to test technology needed for a quantum internet capable of connecting more advanced sensors and computers worldwide, the company announced Sept. 10.
- Isar CEO Tempers Expectations for Inaugural Spectrum Flight European Spaceflight · 10 Sep 2024 Isar Aerospace CEO Daniel Metzler has stated that he would consider the first flight of its Spectrum rocket a success if it doesn’t “blow up the launch site.” The German rocket builder’s two-stage Spectrum rocket will st...
- Space Team Europe for Vega: final liftoff ESA · 10 Sep 2024 Interviews with personnel that worked on the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, with Sentinel-2C onboard.
- NASA to Test Telemedicine, Gather Essential Health Data with Polaris Dawn Crew NASA · 10 Sep 2024 NASA researchers will soon benefit from a suite of experiments flying aboard a new fully-commercial human spaceflight mission, strengthening future agency science as we venture to the Moon, Mars and beyond. The experimen...
- In Slingshot, a mission to Titan goes off course SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 Voyager. Cassini. Juice. All three spacecraft performed gravity assists around Jupiter to accelerate their trajectory through the solar system. Would humans use the same technique? What could possibly go wrong
- The 2024 Global Methane Budget reveals alarming trends ESA · 10 Sep 2024 The Global Methane Budget 2024 paints a troubling picture of the current state of global methane emissions. The new report, which uses data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, reveals that human activities are now...
- A smooth start to life in orbit for Sentinel-2C ESA · 10 Sep 2024 Sentinel-2C has completed its important first few days in space, which saw teams on the ground working around the clock to ensure the spacecraft is ready to begin its mission.
- Juice confirms that Earth is habitable ESA · 10 Sep 2024 During its flyby of Earth on 20 August, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) found ingredients for life in Earth’s atmosphere.
- Crew Dragon launches on Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 A SpaceX Crew Dragon is in orbit on a long-awaited private astronaut mission that will attempt the first commercial spacewalk and go higher than any crewed mission in more than 50 years.
- Polaris Dawn Finally Gets a Break SpacePolicyOnline.com · 10 Sep 2024 Polaris Dawn finally lifted off this morning after a long series of weather delays. The four private astronauts will spend five days in orbit with the goal of flying higher
- Polaris Dawn takes to the skies, setting the stage for a daring private spacewalk Ars Technica · 10 Sep 2024 Weather had confounded the launch attempt for nearly two weeks.
- Chang’e-6 orbiter turns up at Sun-Earth Lagrange point after moon sampling mission SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024 HELSINKI — The orbiter for China’s Chang’e-6 lunar far side sample return mission is now at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange as part of extended activities. The orbiter was a key
- SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn mission, which will attempt the first private spacewalk CNBC · 10 Sep 2024 SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission launched on Tuesday from Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket, which carried the Dragon capsule “Resilience” into orbit.
- Airbus Demonstrates Autonomous Sample Collection for Mars Missions European Spaceflight · 10 Sep 2024 Airbus Defence and Space has successfully demonstrated autonomous sample collection capabilities using a four-wheeled rover called Codi. Over the last three years, ESA and Airbus engineers have tested the capabilities of...
- Sols 4297-4299: This Way to Tungsten Hills NASA · 10 Sep 2024 Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 Contact science in our immediate workspace includes a joint effort by MAHLI and APXS to characterize a gray rock with two targets named “Big Baldy” and “Big Bird Lake.” ChemCam...
- Europa Clipper Go For Launch SpacePolicyOnline.com · 10 Sep 2024 NASA today cleared the Europa Clipper mission for launch next month. The decision on whether or not to launch has been up in the air for the past several months
- SpaceX launches historic Polaris Dawn mission NASASpaceflight · 10 Sep 2024 SpaceX has launched a mission that will not only see humans travel the farthest away from Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972 but also conduct the first-ever commercial spacewalk.
- NASA JPL Scientists, Engineers Collaborate With Artists for Exhibition Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 9 Sep 2024 Works in ‘Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination,’ an exhibit in Glendale, California, help shrink the universe into something tangible.
- Europa Clipper passes pre-launch review SpaceNews · 9 Sep 2024 A multibillion-dollar NASA mission to a potentially habitable moon of Jupiter has been cleared to begin final preparations for an October launch after resolving concerns about electronics on the spacecraft.
- NASA JPL Scientists, Engineers Collaborate With Artists for Exhibition NASA · 9 Sep 2024 Works in ‘Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination,’ an exhibit in Glendale, California, help shrink the universe into something tangible. The universe is vast and filled with countless worlds, but a new...
- Launch Roundup: Polaris Dawn, ISS crewed launch headline busy week NASASpaceflight · 9 Sep 2024 This week’s manifest features up to four Falcon 9 launches, including the highly anticipated Polaris Dawn crewed mission, a mission carrying AST SpaceMobile’s first five cellphone-compatible broadband satellites, and the...