International Space Station (ISS) program managers are currently hard at work preparing for at least one, and potentially two, upcoming and unplanned spacewalks to repair external faults relating to two of the station’s electrical power channels. The spacewalks would both be performed within the next month by experienced spacewalkers Sunita Williams of NASA and Aki Hoshide of Japan, prior to their return to Earth on November 19.
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International Space Station (ISS) program managers, flight controllers, and engineers are currently hard at work…
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The law of averages caught up to the New Orleans area and the two NASA…
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With Space Shuttle Atlantis now officially targeting a launch on November 16, Space Shuttle Program…
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The Crew-6 astronauts lifted off onboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour atop a Falcon 9 rocket…
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The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, docked an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station…
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The second of two Starlink launches this week, Starlink Group 2-5, launched at 11:12 AM…
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India’s new SSLV rocket has successfully reached orbit on its second attempt Friday, six months…
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SpaceX’s Starship program has reached a major milestone ahead of its historic launch with a…
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Uncrewed
Arriving at Titan: How Dragonfly’s Entry, Descent, and Landing will differ from Mars missions
Since the focus on Martian exploration ramped up in the mid-1990s, most of the familiarity…
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Dragonfly, NASA’s unique robotic exploration mission using a rotorcraft to fly a science laboratory around…
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The NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is on the verge of flying its…
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Virgin Orbit attempted to carry out the first satellite launch from the United Kingdom on…
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ChineseInternational
China to launch new station modules and collaborate with Europe on science missions in 2023
by Adrian BeilWith launch numbers 63 and 64 just before the end of this year, China finishes…
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In the new year, Russia plans to launch its first probe to the Moon since…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the joint NASA/CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission from…
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SpaceX’s newest Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft, C211, has launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket at…
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Northrop Grumman launched the second to last Antares 230+ rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia for…
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China successfully launched the Zhongxing-19 mission on a Chang Zheng 3B/E rocket today. The rocket…
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At 06:48 UTC on Nov. 2, Russia’s Soyuz-2.1b launched from Site 43/4 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome,…