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- Next Artemis 1 launch attempt set for Sept. 3 SpaceNews · 30 Aug 2022 NASA has rescheduled the next attempt to launch the Artemis 1 mission for Sept. 3 after concluding that a faulty temperature sensor may be at the root of the problem that scrubbed the first launch attempt.
- SLS launch scrubbed after weather delay, engine cooling issue Spaceflight Now · 29 Aug 2022 Engineers fueled the Space Launch System moon rocket for blastoff Monday on NASA’s long-overdue Artemis 1 test flight, but stormy weather, brief indications of a hydrogen leak, trouble cooling one of the four main engine...
- Direct-to-cell startups welcome Musk’s arrival SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2022 Startups developing constellations for providing connectivity directly to standard cellphones say they stand to benefit from SpaceX entering their market.
- NASA continues to study issues that caused Artemis 1 launch scrub SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2022 NASA officials say they are keeping open the possibility of attempting another launch of the Artemis 1 mission as soon as Sept. 2 as they continue to study a pair of issues that scrubbed the initial launch attempt Aug. 2...
- NASA to Provide Update on Artemis I Moon Mission Status NASA · 29 Aug 2022 NASA will hold a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 30, to discuss the flight test of the agency’s mega Moon rocket and uncrewed Orion spacecraft, currently at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
- New head of AFRL space vehicles looking for talent to help push technology forward SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2022 AFRL is looking to shore up its technical workforce and to partner with private companies, said Col. Jeremy Raley, head of the space vehicles directorate
- NASA Waves Off First Artemis I Launch Attempt NASA · 29 Aug 2022 Following the Artemis I launch scrub Monday from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency will hold a media briefing at approximately 1 p.m. EDT today, Monday, Aug. 29, to discuss mission...
- Warning sign? NASA never finished a fueling test before today’s SLS launch attempt Ars Technica · 29 Aug 2022 "I am very proud of this launch team."
- NASA Waves Off First Artemis I Launch Attempt, to Provide Media Update NASA · 29 Aug 2022 Following the Artemis I launch scrub Monday from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency will hold a media briefing at approximately 1 p.m. EDT today, Monday, Aug. 29, to discuss mission...
- First Artemis 1 launch attempt scrubbed SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2022 NASA scrubbed the first attempt to launch its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft Aug. 29 after a problem with a hydrogen bleed line with one of the rocket’s four core stage engines.
- SLS scrubs first Artemis I launch attempt NASASpaceflight · 29 Aug 2022 For the first time since 1972, a moon rocket was ready to launch on the first of three sequenced missions to return humanity to the lunar surface. This time to stay.
- NASA scrubs first SLS launch attempt due to engine issue [Updated] Ars Technica · 29 Aug 2022 Actually, it was not time.
- China plans to make aging Long March rocket reusable and non-toxic SpaceNews · 29 Aug 2022 China’s main space contractor plans to revamp a highly successful, 30-year-old Long March rocket model to adapt to the trend towards reusability in the launch sector.
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket breaks payload mass record with repaired booster Teslarati · 29 Aug 2022 SpaceX has set a new record for the heaviest payload launched on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of a routine Starlink...
- Artemis I, go for launch Space Scout · 29 Aug 2022 11 years after the final flight of Atlantis, NASA’s next great rocket—the Space Launch System—is ready to fly.
- SLS ready for long-delayed first launch SpaceNews · 28 Aug 2022 A launch vehicle in development for more than a decade is now less than a day from attempting to lift off for the first time on the Artemis 1 mission.
- Photos: Aerial survey of Kennedy Space Center on the eve of Artemis 1 Spaceflight Now · 28 Aug 2022 Spaceflight Now took an aerial tour around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the days before the scheduled launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket. These images captured by Walter Scriptunas II show the the powerful...
- Artemis 1 flight to moon depends on precision rocket firings to pull off a complex trajectory Spaceflight Now · 28 Aug 2022 Even using the most powerful rocket NASA’s ever built, getting the agency’s unpiloted Orion spacecraft to the moon for the Artemis 1 test flight won’t be easy. It will hinge on a complex series of precisely orchestrated...
- NASA’s most powerful rocket poised for launch on Artemis 1 moon mission Spaceflight Now · 27 Aug 2022 Five decades after the final flight of NASA’s legendary Saturn 5 moon rocket, the U.S. space agency is poised to launch its most powerful rocket yet Monday for a critical, long-overdue test flight, sending an unpiloted O...
- Starlink is now available in southern regions of Norway Teslarati · 27 Aug 2022 Starlink is now available in Norway, SpaceX announced today on Twitter. SpaceX also said that it adjusted the prices in most countries...
- Grants fuel Dawn Aerospace propulsion development SpaceNews · 27 Aug 2022 With recent grants from government agencies, Dawn Aerospace is refining its nitrous-based satellite propulsion technology.
- Countdown for first Artemis 1 launch attempt begins SpaceNews · 27 Aug 2022 NASA started the countdown Aug. 27 for its first attempt to launch its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for an uncrewed flight around the moon.
- Aiming for the Moon: Artemis I countdown begins for historic flight NASASpaceflight · 27 Aug 2022 The launch countdown for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Artemis I mission is underway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of a planned liftoff within a two-hour launch window that opens at 8:33 AM...
- SpaceX launch sets record for Falcon 9 payload mass Spaceflight Now · 27 Aug 2022 SpaceX launched another 54 Starlink internet satellites Saturday night from Cape Canaveral, setting a record for the heaviest payload ever launched by a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch occurred days after SpaceX and T-Mobile...
- F-22 Demonstration Team flies by Starbase & Starship Teslarati · 27 Aug 2022 The F-22 Demonstration Team and Heritage Flight Team visited Starbase earlier today and flew by Starship. The demo team flies the United...
- FCC reversal $885.5M Starlink award has no lawful basis, commissioner says Teslarati · 27 Aug 2022 A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner, Brenden Carr, called out the FCC for denying Starlink’s $885.5 million infrastructure award. The FCC said...
- Countdown begins for maiden launch of Artemis moon rocket Spaceflight Now · 27 Aug 2022 Countdown clocks began ticking Saturday for the maiden launch of NASA new Space Launch System rocket Monday on a long-awaited mission to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule around the moon and back.
- US appeals court upholds Starlink deployment change SpaceNews · 26 Aug 2022 A U.S. appeals court Aug. 26 upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s year-old decision to let SpaceX deploy more satellites at lower altitudes to improve the Starlink broadband constellation’s performance.
- Airbus highlights European Service Module work for Artemis NASASpaceflight · 26 Aug 2022 SLS is nearing its debut flight, with the Artemis I launch window opening this Monday at 16:33 UTC. But this launch is impactful beyond NASA and the United States. The European Service Module (ESM) will provide a wide ra...
- SpaceX satellite deployment plan backed by U.S. appeals court Teslarati · 26 Aug 2022 A U.S. appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval of a SpaceX plan to deploy some of its Starlink satellites...
- Cubesats to hitch rides on Artemis 1 SpaceNews · 26 Aug 2022 The first flight of the Space Launch System will carry along with the Orion spacecraft 10 cubesats intended to carry out missions from prospecting for lunar ice to flying by an asteroid — if they’re not dead on arrival.
- Rocket Report: At long last the SLS is ready, Alpha gets a launch date Ars Technica · 26 Aug 2022 "For the uncrewed demo, the goal is to have a safe landing."
- China makes progress in reusability with secretive second flight of suborbital spaceplane SpaceNews · 26 Aug 2022 China has performed its first repeated use of a suborbital spaceplane as part of efforts to develop a fully reusable space transportation system.
- Lunar Trailblazer faces NASA review after cost overruns SpaceNews · 26 Aug 2022 NASA will decide the future of a lunar smallsat orbiter mission at a review this fall after cost overruns by the spacecraft’s manufacturer.
- SpaceX, NASA announce date for next Crew Dragon astronaut launch Teslarati · 26 Aug 2022 SpaceX and NASA have settled on October 3rd for the company’s fifth operational astronaut launch, a mission that will also mark the...
- Forget 5G wireless, SpaceX and T-Mobile want to offer Zero-G coverage Ars Technica · 26 Aug 2022 "So it's really quite a difficult technical challenge."
- Work on Orion capsules continue as Artemis I prepares to launch NASASpaceflight · 25 Aug 2022 With the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion currently at Launch Complex-39B and ready for the Artemis I launch to the moon from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), additional work is progressing at the Agency’s Michoud A...
- Turion Space licensed to sell commercial SSA data SpaceNews · 25 Aug 2022 California startup Turion Space said Aug. 24 it has secured U.S. regulatory approval to sell space situational awareness services from its first satellite next year.
- Orion crew module hatch closed for Artemis 1 test flight Spaceflight Now · 25 Aug 2022 The Orion crew module hatch was closed for flight Thursday morning after technicians at pad 39B completed final closeouts and outfitting inside the spacecraft before launch next week on the unpiloted Artemis 1 test fligh...
- NRO to add more commercial imagery providers as it builds a ‘hybrid architecture’ SpaceNews · 25 Aug 2022 The National Reconnaissance Office expects to select next month multiple providers of radio-frequency data collected by commercial satellites. RF data is used to track ships, vehicles or any devices that emit radio frequ...