Tag: NASA
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It’s all systems go from NASA for uncrewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner to space station
Perched atop its Atlas 5 rocket, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi is being prepared for launch. (United Launch Alliance Photo) After conducting a flight readiness review today, NASA gave its go-ahead for launching Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi on an uncrewed demonstration flight to the International Space Station on Dec. 20. Starliner is due for…
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NASA selects site for OSIRIS-REx to collect asteroid samples
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to illustrate the scale of the site. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Using precise autonomous navigation algorithms, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will descend to the surface of an asteroid next year, aiming…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard conducts 12th test launch
Blue Origin launched its suborbital New Shepard rocket and crew capsule on an uncrewed test flight from the company’s launch and landing facility in West Texas. The launch, with multiple scientific payloads serving as the passengers for the mission, moved to Wednesday, following poor weather forecasts for the opening launch attempt on Tuesday. The flight…
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SpaceX launches Dragon cargo craft with mighty mice and a tricky shipment for Seattle’s Spaceflight
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from its Florida launch pad, sending a robotic Dragon cargo ship into space. (SpaceX via YouTube) A fresh SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a recycled robotic Dragon cargo capsule today, carrying 5,700 pounds of supplies, satellites and science to the International Space Station. In contrast with Wednesday’s planned launch…
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Amateur sleuth helps locate crash site of India’s Vikram moon lander
This before and after image ratio highlights changes to the surface; the impact point is near center of the image and stands out due the dark rays and bright outer halo. Note the dark streak and debris about 100 meters to the south-southeast of the impact point. Diagonal straight lines are uncorrected background artifacts. Credits:…
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Astronauts perform third spacewalk to fix cosmic ray detector
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT) after conclusion of spacewalk. Astronaut Luca Parmitano rides the space station’s robotic arm during Monday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now After prepping their patient — a $2 billion cosmic ray detector — during two earlier spacewalks, two space station astronauts…
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Spacewalkers continue repair of cosmic ray detector
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano rides the space station’s Canadian-built robotic arm during a spacewalk Friday. Credit: NASA In a complex bit of orbital surgery, two spacewalking astronauts cut into a $2 billion cosmic ray detector Friday,…
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Boeing’s Starliner space taxi — and Rosie the Rocketeer — meet up with their rocket
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi is transported out to United Launch Alliance’s vertical integration facility in Florida, where an Atlas 5 rocket is waiting. (ULA Photo) Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi was moved to its Florida launch complex and set atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket today in preparation for next month’s uncrewed test…
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SpaceX offering Starship to NASA for lunar landing missions
Artist’s concept of SpaceX’s Starship on the lunar surface. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is eligible to propose using its next-generation Starship vehicle to carry NASA robotic science payloads to the lunar surface, the U.S. space agency announced Monday, on missions that could precede future Starship flights with people on-board. SpaceX is one of five companies NASA…
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NASA adds five companies, including Blue Origin and SpaceX, to moon delivery list
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander is designed for deliveries to the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among five companies that have just been cleared to deliver payloads to the moon for NASA. So is Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is offering its Starship super-rocket for lunar trips. Sierra…