Tag: Canadian Space Agency
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Launch timeline for SpaceX’s 15th space station resupply mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 5,900 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 0942 GMT (5:42 a.m. EDT) Friday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad.…
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Webb’s launch delayed to 2021 at an extra cost of nearly $1 billion
Artist’s illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Northrop Grumman An independent panel has informed NASA that the James Webb Space Telescope will not be ready for launch until March 2021, and Congress will have to reauthorize the long-delayed, over-budget mission after breaching an $8 billion cost cap, officials said Wednesday. Blunders made by…
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SpaceX test-fires reused rocket in preparation for space station cargo mission
File photo of a Falcon 9 static fire test at Cape Canaveral. Credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now A rocket booster SpaceX used to launch a planet-hunting NASA observatory two months ago fired again Saturday at Cape Canaveral, clearing a major pre-flight checkout before blastoff June 29 with a space station supply ship. After running the rocket…
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JWST beset by another problem as Northrop Grumman revamps training
The telescope element of the Webb observatory was unpacked from its shipping container March 8 after arriving at Northrop Grumman’s factory in Redondo Beach, California. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Engineers working on the James Webb Space Telescope, which had its launch delayed to 2020 earlier this year, recently discovered another problem during testing at the observatory’s…
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Webb telescope’s launch delayed until 2020
The James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror and instrument section, known as the Optical Telescope element and Integrated Science (OTIS) module, is unpacked from its shipping container after arriving at Northrop Grumman’s satellite factory in Redondo Beach, California, earlier this year. JWST’s sunshield is visible at left. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Blaming a slew of technical snags…
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Spacewalking astronauts complete robot arm work
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA TV Astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japanese crewmate Norishige Kanai floated outside the International Space Station Friday, repositioned two robot arm grapple mechanisms following repair work last month and carried out a variety of “get-ahead” tasks before calling it a day. Floating in the Quest airlock,…
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Software patch fixes station robot arm; Monday spacewalk repair called off
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of an astronaut attached to the space station robot arm grapple fixture from a spacewalk in 2002. Image: NASA. A corrective software patch uplinked to the International Space Station has fixed a problem with a newly installed grapple fixture on one end of the…
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Newly installed space station robot arm grapple fixture not operating properly
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The grapple mechanism installed on one end of the space station’s robot arm during a spacewalk Tuesday is experiencing problems with one of two control channels. Rather that use the fixture without redundancy, it will be removed during a re-planned spacewalk Monday and the original fitting will be…
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Spacewalkers complete repairs to station robotic arm
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) after the end of EVA. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo from a spacewalk last year repairing the space station’s robotic arm. Credit: NASA Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station early Tuesday and replaced one of the grapple fixtures on the…
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James Webb Space Telescope completes critical end-to-end test
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The James Webb Space Telescope emerged from Chamber A at Johnson Space Center on Dec. 1. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA’s $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope has completed critical end-to-end testing in a giant vacuum chamber at the Johnson Space Center, proving the telescope will work properly in…