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[…] space explorersYou are here: by Ben Evans June 19, 2023, 1:04 am 3 Comments The first of two launches slated this week from the Space Coast got underway at sunset Sunday, as […]
50 years ago, Apollo 18 might have begun its journey to the Moon. In this article, we analyze the landing sites of the cancelled Apollo missions with modern data.
The post Lost Moon: Reconstructing the Missions of Apollos 18, 19, and 20 (Part 1) first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] ULA identifies Silent Barker as “our second consecutive launch of the summer”—following hard on the heels of a Delta IV Heavy with the highly classified NROL-68 payload in June—the fact remains that 2023 has so far shaped up to be one of its “lightest” years on record, […]
@ULALaunch is readying for its 2nd launch of 2023, with Tuesday's scheduled 8:34 a.m. EDT flight of #MightyAtlas carrying @NatReconOfc's NROL-107 Silent Barker payload.
The post Mighty Atlas Stands Ready for Long-Delayed Silent Barker Mission Tomorrow first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] flew its 59th Falcon-class mission of the year, its record-tying eighth launch of August and its 250th overall successful Falcon 9 of all time late Saturday, when a […]
@SpaceX has smoothly wrapped up its 250th successful Falcon 9 mission & 8th mission of August as 2023 heads into a record-setting fall.
The post SpaceX Heads for Record-Setting Year, Launches 250th Successful Falcon 9 Mission first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] has the dust, smoke and noise cleared from Saturday’s rousing pre-dawn launch of Dragon Endurance and her four-person, four-nation Crew-7 team—Commander Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Denmark’s Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan and […]
With Saturday's rousing pre-dawn launch of Crew-7, @SpaceX & @ULALaunch are targeting their own Space Coast missions, slated for Saturday night & Tuesday morning.
The post After Crew-7, Space Coast Looks to Upcoming SpaceX, ULA Launches first appeared on AmericaSpace.
Four humans representing four sovereign nations are zeroing-in on @Space_Station, following Saturday's spectacular pre-dawn launch of Crew-7.
The post Crew-7 Launches, Four Nations En-Route to Space Station first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] flight-seasoned Crew Dragon. The current record-holder, Dragon Endeavour, is currently in orbit and when she returns to Earth late next week she will have accrued over 460 days across her four-mission […]
[…] to a replacement vehicle being flown earlier this year and Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio’s stay was extended to an anticipated 370 days, with landing expected aboard the “replacement” Soyuz MS-23 on 27 […]
Four spacefarers from four nations are enjoying their last day on Earth, ahead of tomorrow's 3:49 a.m. EDT launch to @Space_Station.
The post Weather Favorable for Crew-7 Launch, Six-Month Space Station Stay Ahead first appeared on AmericaSpace.
Crew-6 reflected on their highly successful 6-month stay on @Space_Station today, as Crew-7 eyes early Friday morning for their own launch.
The post Crew-6 Reflects, as Crew-7 Prepares first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] and Andrei Fedyayev—gathered on Wednesday to discuss a highly successful half-year in orbit. Launched last 2 March, Bowen and his men will spend about five days handing-off ISS operations to their Crew-7 […]
[…] Launches Inmarsat-6 F2, Other GTO-Bound Missions Wait in Wings – Space NewsPingback:Relativity Space Looks to Wednesday for Maiden Terran-1 Launch – AmericaSpacePingback:As SpaceX Lofts 40 OneWeb Satellites, Relativity Space Aims for Launch Attempt #2 on […]
After several months of repairs and upgrades, NASA's towering SLS Mobile Launcher is beginning a series of tests in advance of Artemis 2.
The post SLS Mobile Launcher Rolls Out for Testing first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] later than planned. Originally targeted as part of a mission “double-header” last Thursday, which might have seen it fly only five hours after another Falcon 9 from the Space Coast—potentially creating a second-best turnaround between pairs of Falcon 9 launches—these hopes […]
@SpaceX has successfully launched its 6th Falcon 9 launch of August, as it heads into the final week of a record-setting month.
The post Vandenberg Falcon Flies, As SpaceX Gears Up for Record-Setting Month-End first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] space explorersYou are here: by Mike Killian April 19, 2023, 6:37 pm 1 Comment Potheads & space geeks around the world are anxiously awaiting the first launch of SpaceX’s […]
Crew-7 flyers @AstroJaws, @Astro_Andreas, @Astro_Satoshi & Konstantin Borisov are in Florida, gearing up for their pre-dawn Friday launch to @Space_Station.
The post Crew-7 FRR Concludes, Dragon Endurance Ready for Friday Pre-Dawn Launch first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] Denmark’s Mogensen will become the first non-U.S. astronaut to serve in a piloting position and in late September will rotate into the command of Expedition 70, the first Dane to do […]
[…] four times with a record-setting back-to-back cadence. Four other missions—three from the Cape and one from Vandenberg—have delivered dozens of Starlinks and Intelsat’s powerful Galaxy-37 geostationary […]
[…] There are three T-0 points for this next mission, the others falling at 2:33 a.m. PDT (5:33 a.m. EDT) and 3:26 a.m. PDT (6:26 a.m. EDT), with a further pair in the pre-dawn hours of Friday morning. If B1061 launches on her opening attempt, in a few hours’ time, SpaceX will achieve a pair of launches only five hours apart, its second-best turnaround between any two missions to date. […]
[…] As noted yesterday by AmericaSpace, the meteorological outlook on the Space Coast for tonight’s launch looked decidedly iffy, with only a 20-percent chance of acceptable conditions around the 8:14 p.m. EDT start of the “window”, improving to a predicted 65 percent nearer to its end at midnight. All told, five T-0 launch points were available to SpaceX tonight, with another four backup opportunities running from 7:49 p.m. through 11:11 p.m. on Thursday. […]
@SpaceX has successfully launched its 5th Falcon 9 of August, as attention turns to the West Coast for a Wednesday night double-header.
The post SpaceX Rocks the Space Coast, Looks to Vandenberg Launch Later Tonight first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] Her 2023 duties on a trio of missions in March, April and May saw her lift three more Starlink payloads and so far she has ferried 244 of these satellites aloft. Late last summer, she moved west to become a “Vandenberg Falcon” as SpaceX’s launch tempo from SLC-4E intensified, last week passing a record-breaking 16 flights so far in 2023. […]
[…] astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan’s Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the International Space Station (ISS)—and a more recent double-header in March, which holds the current empirical record of four hours […]
@SpaceX is targeting 2 Starlink launches just 7hr apart tonight, including its 100th total batch of these flat-packed internet satellites since 2019.
The post SpaceX Targets Back-to-Back Falcon 9 Launches Tonight first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] NASA, excitement continues to build for Artemis 2, the first crewed mission to the Moon in over fifty years. On Tuesday, astronauts Reid […]
The crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the Moon recently visited the Kennedy Space Center, where they saw their spacecraft for the first time and provided an update on their historic mission.
The post Artemis 2 Crew “Blown Away” After Visiting Their Spacecraft first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] an impressive first half of August, with the Space Coast having seen off two batches of Starlinks—one just last week and a second tonight—and Intelsat’s heavyweight Galaxy-37 geostationary-bound communications […]
@SpaceX has continued a record-setting SLC-40 cadence, completing a 3rd launch in a week from the historic Space Coast pad and its 4th in August's opening 10 days.
The post SpaceX Racks Up Four Launches Inside August’s First Two Weeks first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] Though Blue Origin had its first successful, sub-orbital test launch in 2006, the company hasn’t tracked very many flights since. SpaceX launches, on the other hand, have become routine; the company has launched its Falcon rockets a total of 250 times as of last week. […]
[…] Though Blue Origin had its first successful, sub-orbital test launch in 2006, the company hasn’t tracked very many flights since. SpaceX launches, on the other hand, have become routine; the company has launched its Falcon rockets a total of 250 times as of last week. […]
[…] Four months since the highly visible announcement of their names to the world in April, Wiseman explained that the Artemis II crew has plunged directly into training. Following an initial “media blitz”, the quartet spent time examining spacecraft systems at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, Orion’s prime contractor Lockheed Martin in Denver, Colo., and just last month visited Naval Base San Diego ahead of the first Artemis II recovery tests in the Pacific Ocean. […]
The Artemis II crew is deep into training for humanity's first voyage to the vicinity of the Moon in over a half-century.
The post NASA Aims for NET Late November 2024 for Historic Artemis II Mission first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] first week, coming on the heels of two former crew-carrying boosters—Crew-5’s B1077 and Crew-6’s B1078—which successfully lofted 22 Starlinks and Intelsat’s powerful Galaxy-37 C-band-clearing […]
@SpaceX has successfully launched its 3rd Falcon 9 in August's 1st week, as it heads squarely towards its 50th cumulative mission out of Vandenberg.
The post As Falcon 9 Passes Year’s 50th Flight, SpaceX Heads for 50th Vandenberg Launch first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] early in June, NASA and Boeing cited a pair of issues pertaining to the spacecraft’s parachute lines and […]
[…] “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams have been in formal training for more than a year to fly an approximately eight-day test flight to the International Space Station (ISS), the satisfactory completion of which will allow the Commercial Crew Program to move forward to […]
@NASA, @Boeing & @ULALaunch are no longer targeting 2023 for the long-awaited Crew Flight Test (CFT) of Starliner, carrying @NASA_Astronauts Butch Wilmore & Suni Williams.
The post Boeing, NASA Updates CFT Progress, Launch Readiness Expected NET March 2024 first appeared on AmericaSpace.
@SpaceX has successfully flown its 50th single-stick Falcon 9 of the year, as it looks ahead to a mission-filled August.
The post SpaceX Launches Year’s 50th Falcon 9, As Booster Nine Static-Fires at Starbase first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] roared onto the scene again in March, when it lifted Crew-6 Commander Steve Bowen, Pilot Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Mission […]
NASA's Curiosity Rover is celebrating the 11th anniversary of its landing on Mars. AmericaSpace reviews the discoveries which it has made over the past year, including new findings about Mars' habitability, clouds, and radiation.
The post Curiosity Celebrates 11 Years of Discovery on Mars first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Mission Specialists Andrei Fedyayev and Sultan Al-Neyadi into orbit to begin their ongoing six-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The booster went on to launch a pair of Boeing-built o3B mPOWER broadband satellites in late […]
[…] roared onto the scene back in March, when it lifted Crew-6 Commander Steve Bowen, Pilot Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Mission […]
@SpaceX is aiming for 9 p.m. EDT Sunday to launch its 50th "single-stick" Falcon 9 of the year.
The post SpaceX Targets Year’s 50th Falcon 9 Launch Tonight first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] space explorersYou are here: by Ben Evans April 17, 2023, 4:32 pm 2 Comments The world’s largest and most powerful rocket must wait at least “a few days” to fly, […]
[…] Force Station, Fla., at precisely 1 a.m. EDT Thursday. Aboard the 230-foot-tall (70-meter) vehicle was Galaxy-37, a heavyweight geostationary-bound communications satellite, flying on behalf of […]
@SpaceX has launched into its second quarter-millennium launches, as it looks back on 250 Falcon 9 & Falcon Heavy missions.
The post SpaceX Begins August, Reflects on Quarter-Millennium of Launches first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] used last October to lift Crew-5, the booster went on to fly four more times between January and June, delivering 56 Starlink low-orbiting internet communications satellites, a Block III Global […]
@SpaceX is targeting 12:15 a.m. EDT Thursday for its first Falcon 9 launch of August.
The post SpaceX Readies for First August Launch Tonight, as Crew-7 NET Date Slips first appeared on AmericaSpace.
@NorthropGrumman has successfully launched its last Antares 230-series booster from @NASA_Wallops, delivering a Cygnus cargo ship to @Space_Station.
The post Last Antares 200-Series Rocket Launches, Delivers NG-19 Cygnus to Space Station first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] As noted yesterday in AmericaSpace’s NG-19 preview, the workhorse Antares lifted the latest Cygnus cargo ship for an anticipated three months as part of the sprawling orbital complex. Early Friday, Expedition 69 astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Frank Rubio—both stationed in the multi-windowed cupola—will grapple Cygnus using the station’s 57.7-foot-long (17.6-meter) Canadarm2 robotic arm and “berth” it at the Earth-facing (or “nadir”) port of the Unity node. […]
[…] out of Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, as early as next week, “pending regulatory approval”, which promises to inject added drama into an already busy April.Powered uphill by the 33 Raptor engines of its Super Heavy core stage—with a thrust reportedly as […]
