With Discovery enjoying her final docked mission – with glowing praise from her crew during nearly every media event – the workhorse of the fleet is providing no headaches for her engineering teams on the ground during her swansong flight. No issues of note are being worked on the orbiter in one of the “cleanest” missions in shuttle history, otherwise known as the routine excellence from the fleet during recent years.
"Solar Orbiter"
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NASA are evaluating a tear in the P6 4B solar array, after Flight Day 8’s…
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NASA managers have started to evaluate manifest options to mitigate schedule issues, following the continuing…
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The International Space Station (ISS) is to recieve a $70m modification which will allow NASA’s…
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EuropeanInternationalUncrewed
Euclid moving into final phase of testing following integration milestone
by Lee KanayamaThe European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid space telescope has moved closer to launch after prime…
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On February 8, 2022, SpaceX announced the loss of around 40 of the 49 Starlink…
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CommercialInternationalMars
Year in Review: Mars missions, Lunar Samples, Crew launched from the US, and Starlink
Despite a worldwide pandemic which affected agencies around the world, 2020 featured many significant achievements…
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office satellite to orbit Friday…
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It’s one of the most baffling problems in astrophysics. If the solar surface is 5,500℃,…
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On 28 August 1859, a series of sunspots began to form on the surface of…
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The James Webb Space Telescope — a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA),…
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The United States Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane began its sixth mission with launch aboard a…
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket carried out its first mission for the United States…
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A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ lifted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops…
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The first Starliner crew vehicle from Boeing has arrived at SLC-41 at the Cape Canaveral…
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ArtemisCommercialUncrewed
NASA Launch Services Program outlines the alternative launcher review for EM-1
by Philip SlossWith a mid-2020 Administration deadline for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) fast approaching, NASA tasked its Launch…
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V has been selected as the rocket of choice by NASA’s…
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EuropeanMarsScience
Perseverance finds Mars river could have been ‘wilder,’ Mars Express takes new volcano images
May has been a big month for scientific discoveries on Mars, as NASA’s Perseverance rover…
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On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX Transporter-7 launches 51 payloads, booster return to LZ
by Danny LentzSpaceX launched the Transporter-7 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space…