Comment on Ax-2 Mission Enters Homestretch, Targets Tuesday Departure, Splashdown by Dragon Freedom Splashes Down, Wraps Up Historic Ax-2 Mission - AmericaSpace

[…] Dragon Freedom safely splashed down off the Panama City coast at 11:04 p.m. EDT Tuesday, to wrap up the second all-private crewed voyage to the International Space Station (ISS) for Houston, Texas-based […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/mPyDwT5 via World Space In...

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Dragon Freedom Splashes Down, Wraps Up Historic Ax-2 Mission

@Axiom_Space successfully wrapped up its 2nd private crewed mission to @Space_Station late Tuesday. The post Dragon Freedom Splashes Down, Wraps Up Historic Ax-2 Mission first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/if4LMEk via World Space In...

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Comment on Long-Awaited Ax-2 Mission Launches, Heads to Space Station by Ax-2 Mission Concludes, Targets Tuesday Departure, Splashdown - AmericaSpace

[…] historic Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) atop the brand-new B1080 Falcon 9 core at 5:37 p.m. EDT on 21 May, Ax-2 is the second all-private expedition to the ISS, flown on behalf of Houston, Texas-based […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/ukBCsJA via World Space In...

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Ax-2 Mission Enters Homestretch, Targets Tuesday Departure, Splashdown

After more than a week aboard @Space_Station, the Ax-2 crew is targeting departure & return to Earth later today. The post Ax-2 Mission Enters Homestretch, Targets Tuesday Departure, Splashdown first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/YHEn6BS via World Space In...

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Comment on Bob & Doug’s Falcon 9 Makes 15th Launch, Sets New Records by After Weather Delays, SpaceX Launches Arabsat-7B Geostationary Mission - AmericaSpace

[…] Demo-2 mission in May 2020—and B1060, both of which reached their record-tying 15th launches in mid-December and early January, respectively. Since then, the active status of B1058 and B1060 has been paused […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/BG9du07 via World Space In...

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After Weather Delays, SpaceX Launches Arabsat-7B Geostationary Mission

After a pair of weather-related delays earlier this week, @SpaceX has launched its 7th Falcon 9 mission of May with @Arabsat's BADR-8. The post After Weather Delays, SpaceX Launches Arabsat-7B Geostationary Mission first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/TwMXkpY via World Space In...

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Comment on As Year’s 30th Falcon 9 Flies, SpaceX Scrubs Iridium/OneWeb Launch, Watches Ax-2 Weather by SpaceX Aims to Launch Saudi Arabian Satellite Tonight - AmericaSpace

[…] perhaps, by the success of three back-to-back missions last weekend—including the 30th overall Falcon 9 flight of the year, the 10th Falcon 9 of 2023 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/2TY9gUr via World Space In...

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SpaceX Aims to Launch Saudi Arabian Satellite Tonight

@SpaceX is aiming for 11:25 p.m. EDT Friday to launch a snakebitten mission for Saudi Arabia. The post SpaceX Aims to Launch Saudi Arabian Satellite Tonight first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/Gb5fkHe via World Space In...

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Comment on Starship Orbital Test Flight Raises Serious Questions by Felon mush

In reply to Martin. It’s clear, he isn’t as smart as his fan club says. Also, he’s not a rocket scientist. He’s had some good ideas and hired the right people, certainly, but his hubris is as vast as his ego. from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/D7rIb8p via World Space In...

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“We Can Fix Anything”: Remembering Skylab’s Salvation, 50 Years On

OTD in 1973, three astronauts launched to Skylab and in a remarkable turnaround in fortune brought America's crippled space station back from the brink. The post “We Can Fix Anything”: Remembering Skylab’s Salvation, 50 Years On first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/s7HZ5yo via World Space In...

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Comment on Starship Orbital Test Flight Raises Serious Questions by Martin

I thought the article was informative. I don’t see the point in taking sides in some pro or anti-Musk debate. He’s clearly good at rockets with Dragon/Falcon Heavy being great successes. But how could he have made such a stupid mistake as to let a rocket of Starship’s power just blast away at concrete and hope for the best? Isn’t it a case of basic engineering – materials’ resistance versus energy? Didn’t he have an civil engineer around who could work it out with basic mathematics? A real blunder like a twelve- year old with pyrotechnics. He rolled...

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Live coverage: Rocket Lab set to launch two NASA hurricane research satellites

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand with the final pair of NASA’s TROPICS hurricane research satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab’s live video webcast begins approximately 20 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on this page. from Spaceflight Now https://ift.tt/Er6mC8f via...

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Russian supply ship set for launch to International Space Station

NASA TV (English) Russia’s next Progress cargo freighter is set for launch Wednesday from Kazakhstan on a mission to carry more than 2.7 tons of fuel, food, experiments, and supplies to the International Space Station. The Progress MS-23 supply ship is set for liftoff at 8:56 a.m. EDT (1256 UTC) from the Site 31 launch complex at Baikonur, located in a remote part of Kazakhstan east of the Aral Sea. Russian ground teams at Baikonur rolled the...

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Watch live: SpaceX ready for launch of Arabsat telecom payload tonight

 An Airbus-built communications satellite for Arabsat is buttoned up for liftoff Tuesday night from Cape Canaveral, but stormy weather threatens to delay the launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 has a launch window of more than two hours opening at 11:25 p.m. EDT Tuesday (0325 UTC Wednesday), but there’s just a 30% chance of favorable weather at the opening of the launch window. The forecast improves throughout the night,...

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Comment on Starship Orbital Test Flight Raises Serious Questions by spacerfirstclass

One month after the launch, this article has aged extremely poorly, just some examples: “NASA in particular is left with some hard choices arising from choosing Starship as its sole lunar lander for the Artemis III mission.”: Now NASA has selected a 2nd lander from Blue Origin, yet this 2nd lander shares many of the attributes of Starship HLS: It also requires a new still not flown launch vehicle (New Glenn, which is even more delayed than Starship), it also require orbital refilling of cryogenic propellant (liquid hydrogen in this case, harder...

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Watch live: SpaceX crew capsule approaching space station for docking

 Four commercial space fliers who launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Axiom’s second private astronaut mission Sunday will arrive at the International Space Station on a SpaceX crew capsule Monday to start an eight-day stay full of scientific experiments, student outreach events, and sightseeing. Docking of SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft at the space station’s Harmony module is scheduled for 9:10 a.m. EDT (1310 UTC), completing an automated rendezvous that saw the capsule match orbits with the complex with a sequence of thruster...

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Long-Awaited Ax-2 Mission Launches, Heads to Space Station

@SpaceX has successfully launched its 6th Falcon 9 mission of May, carrying @Axiom_Space's Ax-2 crew to @Space_Station. The post Long-Awaited Ax-2 Mission Launches, Heads to Space Station first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/WkBdC7X via World Space In...

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Comment on “A Few Telemetry Glitches”: Remembering Skylab’s Hair-Raising Ride to Space, 50 Years On by Long-Awaited Ax-2 Mission Launches, Heads to Space Station - AmericaSpace

[…] 158 prior launches included the first humans to orbit the Moon, the first crewed lunar landing, the Skylab space station and the first shuttle flight—the four astronauts ascended the elevator and were assisted into […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/J7SRv6Y via World Space In...

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Live coverage: Two Americans, two Saudis ready for launch on commercial astronaut mission

Watch our coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:37 p.m. EDT (2137 UTC) on Sunday, May 21, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 will launch SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft with four commercial astronauts on the Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station. Follow us on Twitter.  Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, with more time in space than any other American,...

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Comment on AxiomSpace’s Ax-2 Full Crew Announced, as Crew-6 Enters Pre-Launch Quarantine by Weather Looks 60-Percent-Favorable for Tonight’s Ax-2 Launch - AmericaSpace

[…] Texas-based AxiomSpace, Inc., has a crew of four—Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner and Mission Specialists Ali Al-Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi of Saudi Arabia—who will support more than 20 scientific research, technology and educational outreach […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/5ryDLcG via World Space In...

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Weather Looks 60-Percent-Favorable for Tonight’s Ax-2 Launch

@SpaceX & @Axiom_Space are targeting 5:37 p.m. EDT Sunday to launch the long-awaited Ax-2 mission to @Space_Station. But weather, as always, remains the watchword. The post Weather Looks 60-Percent-Favorable for Tonight’s Ax-2 Launch first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/o7FW5BD via World Space In...

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Comment on Starship Orbital Test Flight Raises Serious Questions by John

Hi Jim, great article. As a mechanical engineer, and a fan of history, seeing all the praises thrown at this failure of a launch was driving me mad. Anyone who knows anything about space flight or the history of the Apollo program would know that they managed to not only clear the tower with Apollo 4 but get into orbit. All that without Ansys, AutoCAD, Solidworks, using slide rules. People are going to lose their lives on this pathetic rocket. One only needs to compare all the means of aborting launch Apollo had at its disposal with Starship. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80646972.pdf Anyway,...

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NASA awards Blue Origin $3.4 billion Artemis moon lander contract

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of Blue Origin’s 52-foot-tall (16-meter) Blue Moon lander. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, has won a $3.4 billion NASA contract to build an Artemis lunar lander that will provide a downstream alternative to the Starship variant already being developed by SpaceX, the agency announced Friday. “We are going to the...

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Comment on SpaceX Resumes Falcon 9 Launches, Heads into Busy Year-End by SpaceX Launches 2023’s Tenth Vandenberg Mission, Ax-2 Completes Static Fire - AmericaSpace

[…] is SpaceX’s fourth OneWeb launch, after three prior missions last December, January and March. Those flights safely delivered 120 Generation One satellites uphill, with […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/nhBauL4 via World Space In...

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Comment on As Year’s 30th Falcon 9 Flies, SpaceX Scrubs Iridium/OneWeb Launch, Watches Ax-2 Weather by SpaceX Launches 2023’s Tenth Vandenberg Mission, Ax-2 Completes Static Fire - AmericaSpace

[…] pre-dawn liftoff of a veteran Falcon 9 booster from a fog-enshrouded Space Launch Complex (SLC)-4E. Scrubbed yesterday at T-55 seconds—just after the rocket assumed primary control of countdown operations and entered its […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/qr5gEpa via World Space In...

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SpaceX Launches 2023’s Tenth Vandenberg Mission, Ax-2 Completes Static Fire

@SpaceX has wrapped up the 2nd launch of a planned weekend triple-header, as attention turns to Florida's unpredictable weather for a 5:37 p.m. Sunday launch of Ax-2. The post SpaceX Launches 2023’s Tenth Vandenberg Mission, Ax-2 Completes Static Fire first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/lZWsjtp via World Space In...

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Comment on NASA, Axiom, SpaceX Discuss Upcoming Ax-2 Space Station Mission by As Year’s 30th Falcon 9 Flies, SpaceX Scrubs Iridium/OneWeb Launch, Watches Ax-2 Weather - AmericaSpace

[…] Falcon 9 was dramatically scrubbed at T-55 seconds and is now targeting launch early Saturday, with the crew-carrying Ax-2 mission set to close out the weekend with its own Sunday evening flight from from historic Pad 39A at […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/GeMIiQg via World Space In...

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As Year’s 30th Falcon 9 Flies, SpaceX Scrubs Iridium/OneWeb Launch, Watches Ax-2 Weather

After launching 1 of 2 planned Falcon 9 missions on Friday, @SpaceX looks to Saturday & Sunday to wrap up a weekend triple-header. The post As Year’s 30th Falcon 9 Flies, SpaceX Scrubs Iridium/OneWeb Launch, Watches Ax-2 Weather first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/vyHNZhd via World Space In...

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Jammed radar boom on Jupiter-bound JUICE probe finally freed

Artist’s concept of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer with all its antenna deployed. Credit: European Space Agency After three weeks of intense analysis and troubleshooting, European Space Agency flight controllers have finally succeeded in freeing a jammed 52-foot (16-meter) boom critical to the Jupiter-bound JUICE probe’s ice-penetrating radar instrument. The Jupiter Icy Moons mission – JUICE – was launched April 14 atop an Ariane 5 rocket. On its...

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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket set to launch spare satellites for OneWeb and Iridium

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with 16 satellites for OneWeb’s internet network and five satellites for Iridium’s voice and data relay constellation. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX Webcast from Spaceflight Now https://ift.tt/PDqJWjs via World Space In...

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Comment on “You Need to Hear All the Notes”: Remembering Sam Durrance (1943-2023) by 【致沉痛告别，倾听他所有音符：怀念萨姆·德兰斯（1943-2023）】 - 偏执的码农

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Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to midnight-hour Starlink launch

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-3 mission at 12:41 a.m. EDT (0441 UTC) on May 19 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live  Another Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff early Friday from Cape Canaveral with a batch of 22 upgraded, new-generation Starlink internet satellites, the first of two SpaceX missions...

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Comment on SpaceX Flies Third Starlink Mission of May, Attention Turns to Next Week’s Ax-2 Launch by Weather Looks Iffy for Post-Midnight Falcon 9 Launch - AmericaSpace

[…] close-to-perfect conditions for two launches earlier this month, SpaceX’s next mission of May is facing a decidedly dicier weather picture. A four-times-used […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/Sz75BqH via World Space In...

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Weather Looks Iffy for Post-Midnight Falcon 9 Launch

@SpaceX is aiming for its 4th Falcon 9 launch of May just after midnight Thursday, with weather remaining the watch-word. The post Weather Looks Iffy for Post-Midnight Falcon 9 Launch first appeared on AmericaSpace. from AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/glG8wHj via World Space In...

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NASA’s Lunar Flashlight CubeSat mission ends before entering orbit around moon

This screenshot from NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System 3D visualization tool shows Lunar Flashlight making its close approach with Earth late on May 16. The CubeSat was expected to pass about 40,000 miles (65,000 kilometers) from our planet’s surface over Brazil’s east coast on May 17. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s small Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, sent to the moon last year to search for water ice deposits at the moon’s south pole, will not...

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Comment on NASA, Axiom, SpaceX Discuss Upcoming Ax-2 Space Station Mission by Axiom Space's Ax-2 Mission To Launch To The ISS With Private Astronauts And Stem Cell Experiments - Science News

[…] 0. “NASA, Axiom, SpaceX Discuss Upcoming Ax-2 Space Station Mission” AmericaSpace, 15 May. 2023, https://www.americaspace.com/2023/05/15/nasa-axiom-spacex-discuss-upcoming-ax-2-space-station-missio… […] from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/Q7hwPTr via World Space In...

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First Vulcan rocket rolls back to hangar for ‘adjustments’ prior to test-firing

United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket rolls out to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on May 11. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan rocket was filled with methane and liquid oxygen propellants at Cape Canaveral last week for a tanking test, but managers decided to move the rocket back inside a hangar for a few adjustments before proceeding with an engine test-firing. The Flight Readiness Tanking Test, or...

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