NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio resumed the agency’s efforts to upgrade the International Space Station’s solar power-generation system, with a 7-hr. spacewalk.
NASA managers clear the Artemis I launch team at the Kennedy Space Center to begin fueling the Space Launch System rocket for a long-delayed debut flight to put an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into a distant lunar orbit.
The two-hour launch window on Nov. 16 closes at 3:04 a.m. The mission marks the first flight of the SLS, which has been in development for more than a decade.
SpaceX’s 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has been readied to deliver assorted science and technology payloads focused on human deep-space exploration challenges.
NASA managers have cleared the Kennedy Space Center launch team to start the two-day countdown for launch, but two technical issues that surfaced during post-hurricane inspections and tests still need to be resolved.
The U.S. Space Force landed the Boeing-built X-37B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 12, completing a 908-day mission that set a new record for endurance.
CAPE CANAVERAL—Post-hurricane inspections and analysis of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule, which rode out a Category 1 storm at the launchpad, show no impediments toward picking up the two-day countdown for launch as planned on Nov. 14, NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free said on Nov. 11.
Inspections are underway of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, which rode out a Category I hurricane at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, with launch on the Artemis I flight test still targeted for Nov. 16.
In a joint technology demonstration, United Launch Alliance and NASA tested a 20-ft.-dia. inflatable heat shield that is intended to pave the way for a future rocket engine recovery system for ULA and a system for NASA to land heavy, human-class missions on Mars, among other uses.
Advanced Space LLC will demonstrate a spacecraft at a location about 200,000 mi. from Earth that can monitor other objects in the cislunar region, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on Nov 10.
Astra Space on Nov. 8 announced layoffs of 16% of its workforce and $119 million in write-downs of assets as the struggling rocket startup seeks a “financial runway” into 2024 amid a major business plan change.
Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 8 stepped up preparations for Tropical Storm Nicole, which is expected to bring sustained winds of at least 39 mph to the area.
Intelsat is turning to Switzerland-based SWISSto12 to provide a small geostationary satellite outfitted with 12 Ku-band transponders for regional communications services.
Shortly after its liftoff early Nov. 7 from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus International Space Station resupply capsule experienced a difficulty with the deployment of the second of its two solar arrays.
The Antares' cargo delivery of 8,265 lb. represents an increased launch capability of about 154 lb. (70 kg) due to modifications to the rocket’s secondary support structure.
An independent review board has concluded that a number of factors—including communications lapses, a lack of staffing, budget challenges and pandemic-related workplace culture changes—contributed to NASA’s delay in launching the $985 million Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid until October 2023.
Astrobotic says it has validated the Optical Precision Autonomous Landing hardware and flight software for its NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services Peregrine Mission-1 lunar landing, planned for early 2023.
