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[…] and October and a pair of O3b mPOWER communications satellites in November. Her 2024 campaign began with January’s launch of the Swedish Ovzon-3 geostationary broadband satellite and SpaceX’s first-ever “Leap Day” mission on 29 […]
@SpaceX is targeting 3 back-to-back Falcon 9 launches from Florida and California tonight.
The post SpaceX Targets Three Back-to-Back Falcon 9 Launches Tonight first appeared on AmericaSpace.
@ULALaunch & @NatReconOfc will wait at least 24hrs to launch the highly classified NROL-70 mission, following a last-minute scrub in Thursday's countdown.
The post Final Delta IV Launch Scrubbed, Next Attempt NET Friday first appeared on AmericaSpace.
@ULALaunch & @NatReconOfc are targeting 1:40 p.m. EDT Thursday for the final launch of the Delta fleet.
The post ULA Targets Thursday for Final Delta Launch, Watches Weather first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] 2022. The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission was the program’s first major test. During its debut, SLS performed nearly flawlessly. It propelled a fully-functional Orion capsule on a 25-day mission to a Distant Retrograde Orbit […]
[…] The NROL-70 mission marks the 16th launch of Delta IV Heavy and the 389th for the Delta family, according to AmericaSpace. Established by the U.S. government in 1960, the Delta program was set up to […]
[…] communications satellites for injection into low-Earth orbit. Veteran B1060—the fourth booster to reach a life-leading 19th launch and the third to do so this year—ascended atop a pillar of golden fire from historic Pad 39A at […]
[…] communications satellites for injection into low-Earth orbit. Veteran B1060—the fourth booster to reach a life-leading 19th launch and the third to do so this year—ascended atop a pillar of golden fire from historic Pad 39A at […]
Following Saturday morning's arrival of @SpaceX Cargo Dragon, a new crew is chasing down the @Space_Station tonight, heading for a Monday docking.
The post Space Station Welcomes Cargo, Awaits Crew Arrival first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] International Space Station (ISS) welcomed cargo and prepared for a new crew arrival Saturday, as SpaceX’s CRS-30 Cargo Dragon docked at the sprawling orbital outpost at 7:19 a.m. EDT and Soyuz MS-25—crewed by Russian […]
NASA, Boeing & ULA are targeting early May for the launch of @Astro_Butch & @Astro_Suni for the long-awaited Crew Flight Test of Starliner to @Space_Station.
The post NASA Outlines Plans for Crew Flight Test (CFT), Targets Early May Launch first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] with 23 Starlink internet communications satellites, fleet workhorse B1060—the fourth booster to reach a life-leading 19th launch and the third to do so this year—is set to lift off from historic Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy […]
@SpaceX plans to launch a life-leading Falcon 9 booster on its 19th flight late Friday. But the key watchword remains the weather.
The post SpaceX Targets Falcon 9 Launch Tonight, Weather Looks Dicey first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] 9 booster. Laden with more than 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of payloads, equipment and supplies for the incumbent Expedition 70 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the launch comes only hours after Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 mission was scrubbed less than 20 seconds […]
After Thursday's dramatic launch abort at Baikonur, @SpaceX has successfully launched its 30th Dragon cargo mission to @Space_Station.
The post CRS-30 Launches to Space Station, Following Soyuz MS-25 Pad Abort first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] the program. Tragically, the Gemini 9 prime crew, Elliot See and Charlie Bassett, lost their lives while trying to land their T-38 training jet on an overcast day. Flying in space was a risky profession, and NASA knew that a preflight accident was […]
Tom Stafford, one of the heroes of the Apollo era, passed away on Monday. While Stafford's loss is saddening, he leaves behind a remarkable legacy of exploration and diplomacy in space.
The post Remembering Tom Stafford, the Space Race’s Peacemaker (1930-2024) first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] hatches into the station will be opened at some time around 2:50 p.m. EDT and the new crewmembers will be welcomed aboard by Expedition 70 Commander Oleg Kononenko—currently the world’s most flight-experienced space traveler, with 922 days spanning a […]
@SpaceX has launched its 10th time of the year out of Vandenberg and its 7th Falcon 9 of March, as it gears up for its next cargo run to @Space_Station on Thursday.
The post SpaceX Launches Tenth Vandenberg Flight of Year, Looks to CRS-30 Space Station Resupply Mission on Thursday first appeared on AmericaSpace.
Two missions, crewed and uncrewed, are targeting launches to @Space_Station only 7.5 hours apart on Thursday.
The post Soyuz Crew, Cargo Dragon Await Space Station Launches 7.5 Hours Apart on Thursday first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] hatches into the station will be opened at some time around 2:50 p.m. EDT and the new crewmembers will be welcomed aboard by Expedition 70 Commander Oleg Kononenko—currently the world’s most flight-experienced space traveler, with 922 days spanning a […]
[…] Force Station in Florida, have so far lofted over 330 Starlink internet communications satellites, crewed and uncrewed missions to the International Space Station (ISS), geostationary communications […]
[…] Having previously flown five Falcon 9s in March, as well as Wednesday’s third Integrated Flight Test (IFT-3) of the Starship/Super Heavy stack out of Boca Chica, Texas, last night’s mission marked the first occasion that SpaceX has conducted as many as seven launches inside the opening half of a calendar month. Three Starlink missions, the 53-payload Transporter-10 “rideshare” and a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS) preceded B1062 into orbit over the last two weeks. […]
@SpaceX has wrapped up its 7th orbital mission in the first half of March and its 25th Falcon 9 flight of 2024.
The post SpaceX Launches, Lands Falcon 9, Wraps Up 25th Mission of Year first appeared on AmericaSpace.
Article says the IFT-2 stack was terminated.
Actually, after IFT-2 host staging the booster exploded as it tried to relight engines for boostback burn,
while ship continued to climb for a few minutes and almost reached orbit before an engine bay fire caused the AFTS to terminate it.
Good article, except the SI (metric) measure of thrust is newtons, not kilograms. A newton is the force needed to accelerate one kilogram of mass one meter per second per second. To convert LBf to newton divide the pounds by 2.2 then multiply the result by 9.81 (Earth gravity acceleration in meters per second per second) to get the correct answer.
[…] mission by a Starship/Super Heavy stack, following two earlier launches last 20 April and 18 November. Powering aloft under 16.7 million pounds (7.5 million kilograms) of thrust from its 33 Raptor […]
@SpaceX has successfully flown its 3rd Integrated Flight Test of the Starship/Super Heavy stack out of Boca Chica, achieving good Raptor engine burns, a satisfactory hot-staging and boost-back maneuver and several other assigned objectives.
The post IFT-3 Starship Flies, Achieves Significant Performance Milestones first appeared on AmericaSpace.
SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of space exploration with its upcoming launches, showcasing its impressive cadence and technological advancements. The planned launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Centre and the preparations for the Starship/Super Heavy stack test highlight SpaceX’s commitment to innovation and frequent missions. The remarkable achievements of the Falcon 9 cores, including B1062’s upcoming milestone as the third Falcon 9 to reach a life-leading 19th launch, demonstrate SpaceX’s dedication to reusability and reliability in spaceflight. As SpaceX ventures into new frontiers with its Starlink missions and human crew launches, the future of space exploration looks promising under their leadership.
[…] and more recently Crew-5 between October 2022 and last March. She now sits ahead of her sister, the recently-launched Dragon Endeavour, which as of Tuesday has accrued over 474 days across her own five missions and will retake the […]
After 199 days in space, Crew-7 safely returned to Earth on Tuesday after the second-longest mission in history by a U.S. crew-carrying spacecraft.
The post Crew-7 Returns Safely, Ends 6.5-Month Space Station Mission first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] (360 million kilometers) traveled. Endurance was the third Crew Dragon to carry humans—after the currently-in-space Endeavour and her sister Resilience—and sets herself in pole position as the most flight-experienced member […]
[…] her first two missions and set herself in first place as the most flight-experienced Crew Dragon, a record she relinquished last April to her veteran sister Endeavour then won back in early January […]
After almost 199 days in space, Crew-7 bade farewell to the @Space_Station on Sunday, with undocking targeted for Monday and splashdown early Tuesday morning.
The post Crew-7 Prepares for Monday Space Station Departure, Tuesday Splashdown first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] a triple-header start to March—including a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS), the launching of the multi-customer Tranporter-10 […]
Two Falcon 9 boosters are targeting Sunday launches from opposite U.S. coasts, as @SpaceX readies for its third integrated flight test of the Starship/Super Heavy NET 14 March.
The post SpaceX Targets Back-to-Back Falcon 9 Missions, Next Starship Launch first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] progressing through a comprehensive series of simulations and rehearsals. In September of 2022, Wiseman described this process to AmericaSpace. “(Artemis 2) is the first crewed flight of a vehicle, so not everything is polished ahead of […]
[…] 2024 dawned, it seemed as though humanity’s return to the Moon was imminent. According to NASA’s public schedule, the Artemis 2 crewed test flight was slated to launch in […]
[…] 39A—whose 169 prior launches between November 1967 and last month’s middle-of-the-night rise of Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lunar mission included the first humans to orbit the Moon, the first crewed lunar landing, the Skylab space […]
[…] Crew-8 launched instead at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday, putting Dragon Endeavour on course to rendezvous and autonomously dock at the forward port of the Harmony node about 3 a.m. EST Tuesday, 5 March. About two hours after docking, following pressurization and leak checks, the newcomers will be welcomed aboard by incumbent Expedition 70 Commander Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Konstantin Borisov and Nikolai Chub and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, who have been aboard the station since last summer. […]
[…] month B1081 launched NASA’s $805 million Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission to perform critical measurements of our planet’s oceans, atmosphere and climate on a global scale. Flying Monday’s mission only 25 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes after lofting PACE, she sets a new […]
[…] Konstantin Borisov to the ISS, where they currently reside. Two additional launches of B1081 last November and December delivered SpaceX’s CRS-29 Cargo Dragon for a month-long research stay at the station […]
[…] beginning-of-the-week action got underway at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday, when the brand-new B1083 booster—the second Falcon 9 core to join SpaceX’s burgeoning fleet so […]
[…] following Sunday’s successful liftoff of Crew-8 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC)—with NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps, plus Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr…, currently en-route to a six-month berth aboard the International Space Station (ISS)—and […]
[…] payload deployment regime, the veteran B1073 booster was being readied at the Cape’s SLC-40 for her second outing of 2024 and the 13th launch of her career so far. First flown in May 2022, she has now launched 320 […]
[…] delay, a Falcon 9 successfully lofted Dragon Endeavour from KSC and her Crew-8 quartet of NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps, plus Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr G…, at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday, bound for a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). […]
[…] January, SpaceX completed a tenth launch in a single calendar month and less than three weeks ago flew three Falcon 9s within 24 hours of one another for the first time, as the U.S. Space Force’s highly classified USSF-124 roared uphill from Space Launch Complex […]
[…] weeks old, but for SpaceX the records are already starting to fall like ninepins. Last year ended with a triumphant 96 missions by “single-stick” Falcon 9 and triple-barreled Falcon Heavy booste…—an average of a launch each 3.8 days—but as we enter March the fleet has already logged 22 […]
[…] following Sunday’s successful liftoff of Crew-8 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC)—with NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps, plus Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr…, currently en-route to a six-month berth aboard the International Space Station (ISS)—and […]
[…] Speaking through an interpreter, Grebenkin expressed his eagerness to get going and Barratt, the only spaceflight veteran on Crew-8, confidently expects to “discover something new” during his half-year off the […]
@SpaceX has successfully launched 4 humans to @Space_Station, with docking targeted for Tuesday and a half-year of research and outpost maintenance ahead.
The post Crew-8 Heads for Space Station, Kicks Off Busy March for SpaceX first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] Speaking through an interpreter, Grebenkin expressed his eagerness to get going and Barratt, the only spaceflight veteran on Crew-8, confidently expects to “discover something new” during his half-year off the […]
[…] 2024 dawned, it seemed as though humanity’s return to the Moon was imminent. According to NASA’s public schedule, the Artemis 2 crewed test flight was slated to launch in […]
The four Artemis 2 astronauts took to the sea last week for Underway Recovery Test-11 (URT-11). NASA and the US Navy practiced how they will help the crew exit their spacecraft following their splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
The post Artemis Recovery Team Ships Out for Splashdown Rehearsal first appeared on AmericaSpace.
[…] of Pollution (TEMPO) payload—in early April, five batches of Starlinks in February, May, July, September and October and a pair of O3b mPOWER communications satellites in November. Her 2024 campaign began […]
[…] February. Following hard on the heels of eight earlier missions in the past four weeks—including a NASA-led ocean/climate-monitoring mission, an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite, a highly classified group of payloads for […]
