Tag: commercial-space
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Station crew faces busy schedule as commercial crew schedule ramps up
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The entire six-member Expedition 56 crew gathers in the Cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world,” for a team portrait. In the front row, from left, are NASA astronauts Serena Auñon-Chancellor, Commander Drew Fuestel and Ricky Arnold. Behind them, from left, are Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev…
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Commercial branding on spacecraft? Five key points in NASA’s evolving space vision
As a joke, NASA spacewalker Dale Gardner holds up a “For Sale” sign during a shuttle mission in 1984, in an era when the space shuttle fleet took on commercial satellite servicing tasks. (NASA Photo) Why can’t commercials be filmed on the International Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of energy drinks or tennis shoes?…
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Spaceflight preps for first launch of unique orbiting satellite deployers
Artist’s illustration of the SSO-A mission’s free flyers separating from the upper stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: Spaceflight Engineers working for Spaceflight, a Seattle-based launch services company, are in the final steps of preparing for the first launch of new robotic free flyers carrying more than 70 small government and commercial satellites into…
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VP Mike Pence revs up NASA schedule for putting astronauts on station in lunar orbit
Vice President Mike Pence is flanked by portraits of NASA’s Orion space capsule and a space station in lunar orbit as he speaks at Johnson Space Center in Texas. (NASA via YouTube) During a pep talk to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, Vice President Mike Pence today highlighted what he saw as the mistakes…
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Orrery.ai aims to turn streams of data into secret weapon for strategic investment
Chipsats like the ones shown here could provide streams of radar data for processing by Orrery.ai’s algorithms. (Photo courtesy of Orrery.ai) Satellites, sensors, social media and purchasing data provide terabytes’ worth of information about how the global economy is working — and the insights gleaned from that data can be more precious than gold. But what’s…
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SpaceX’s astronaut walkway installed on Florida launch pad
SpaceX’s crew access arm is in its retracted position at launch pad 39A after installation Monday. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now The walkway astronauts will use to board SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule before missions to the International Space Station was added to historic launch pad 39A on Monday. A crane erected at the seaside…
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Spaceport Colorado wins FAA license
News Brief: Colorado’s Front Range Airport is getting a new name — the Colorado Air and Space Port — thanks to the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval of a spaceport license. The facility, six miles southeast of Denver International Airport in Adams County, won’t be used for vertical rocket launches. Instead, it’s approved for horizontal takeoff-and-launch operations…
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Crew walkway arrives at launch pad 39A in Florida
The crew access arm on the deck of launch pad 39A awaits its installation. Photo: Ken Kremer/spaceupclose.com. The access arm astronauts will transit when boarding SpaceX’s Crew Dragon commercial capsule has arrived at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photos of the access arm shared on social media show it arrived…
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Photos: Previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Merah Putih satellite
A Falcon 9 rocket booster which first flew in May took off for the second time Tuesday from Cape Canaveral carrying the Indonesian Merah Putih communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 1:18 a.m. EDT (0518 GMT) Tuesday on SpaceX’s 15th mission of the year. Turning…
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NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight
An artist’s conception shows three Bigelow Aerospace B330 modules linked together to create a space station being serviced by SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Such a configuration would provide as much pressurized volume as the International Space Station. (Bigelow Aerospace Illustration) Thirteen companies, including Boeing and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be doing…