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Starliner’s first commander: Don’t expect perfection on crew test flight
HOUSTON—While it doesn’t have the same relevance to public consciousness as safety problems with commercial airliners, a successful test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in May would be welcome news for the beleaguered aerospace company. This will be the first time the Starliner capsule flies into low-Earth orbit with humans aboard. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore…
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Boeing, NASA target May 1 for first crewed flight of Starliner to the space station
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) pose in front of a graphic of the mission patch for the Starliner Crew Flight Test. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now NASA is five weeks away from putting astronauts aboard a new commercial crew capsule. May 1 is the target launch date for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft…
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ALifecom Unveils Latest NTN IoT Platform for SATCOM UE Testing at SATELLITE 2024
ALifecom announced the release of its Non-Terrestrial Networks IoT Platform at SATELLITE 2024 in Washington, D.C. This platform is the industry’s first integrated solution embedding a channel emulator into ALifecom’s NE6000 network emulator to effectively simulate and test NTN communications within a small form factor, user-friendly, and cost-effective solution. The ALifecom NE6000 network emulator has…
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NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson and Crewmates Launch to the International Space Station
Three crew members including NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson successfully launched at 8:36 a.m. EDT on March 23, 2024, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Dyson, along with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, will dock to the space station’s Prichal module at…
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Startical to Test its Air Traffic Surveillance Systems on NanoAvionics-Built Satellite
Startical, the company created by ENAIRE, Europe’s fourth-largest air navigation services provider, and Indra, a technological company and one of the world’s leading providers of air traffic systems, will use a satellite produced by Kongsberg NanoAvionics, a leading small satellite company, and mission integrator, to test the systems of its future constellation of over 270…
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China Roundup: Chinese Moon plans, commercial company updates, and Wenchang commercial pad
China provided several updates to its lunar exploration plans, while private companies like LandSpace and Space Pioneer are also getting closer to milestones. Meanwhile, the commercial complex in Wenchang is getting ready to host private Chinese rockets. China details lunar exploration further In a recent presentation, China detailed its lunar exploration plan for the near…
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SpaceX reaches its 175th Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral with Monday evening Starlink mission
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the Starlink 6-46 mission on Monday, March 25. This marked the 175th launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Monday evening with 23 Starlink satellites on board. This mission…
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Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life
If you enter “how to see the eclipse” into your favorite search engine, you’re bound to see thousands—millions?—of helpful guides. Some of these are extremely detailed and thorough, almost as if the author were getting paid by the word or augmented by AI. In reality, seeing a solar eclipse is just about the easiest thing…