MoreĪSTRONAUTS CHOOSE ‘ENDURANCE’ AS NAME FOR NEW SPACEX CREW CAPSULE - The astronauts who will ride SpaceX’s newest Dragon spaceship into orbit later this month said Thursday they named their spacecraft “Endurance” as a tribute to the human spirit and a historic sailing vessel used by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. NASA says engineers have not established contact with another CubeSat designed.
SECONDARY PAYLOADS LAUNCHED WITH LANDSAT BEGIN COMMISSIONING - Ground teams are stepping through testing of three small CubeSats launched with the Landsat 9 remote sensing satellite last month, preparing the small spacecraft for exoplanet observations and communications experiments. 11 it signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX for that smallsat, which will be pa. VARDA SPACE SELECTS SPACEX FOR LAUNCH OF FIRST SPACE MANUFACTURING SATELLITE - Space manufacturing startup Varda Space will launch its first spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in early 2023 to demonstrate the ability to produce a wide range of materials in microgravity. SHENZHOU 13 LAUNCHES FIRST LONG-DURATION CHINESE SPACE STATION CREW - After a successful launch to the new Chinese Space Station earlier this year and the initial 90-day “shakedown cruise” of the Shenzhou 12 crew, three taikonauts launched to the station aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft to begin the first long-duration stay aboard. The satellites, each about the size of a mini-refrigerator, blasted off at 5:4. SUCCESSFUL SOYUZ LAUNCH THRUSTS ONEWEB PAST HALFWAY MARK IN FLEET DEPLOYMENT - Another batch of 36 satellites for OneWeb’s internet network rode a Russian Soyuz launcher into orbit Thursday, giving the company more than half of the 648-spacecraft fleet it aims to deploy by the end of next year. The three-person landing crew is scheduled to undock from the nadir port on the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Modu. SOYUZ MS-18 SET FOR UNDOCKING AND LANDING - Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and spaceflight participants Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko will return to Earth with a landing in Kazakhstan on Sunday, completing the Soyuz MS-18 mission. 14 to study the violent and sudden physical processes behind solar flares, joining 10 other small payloads on a Long March 2D rocket that also tested grid fins to help guide the expendable booster away from populated areas dur. MoreĬHINA LAUNCHES ORBITING SOLAR OBSERVATORY - China successfully launched a half-ton scientific research satellite Oct. The three-person landing crew undocked from the nadir port on the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) at. SOYUZ MS-18 TOUCHDOWN IN KAZAKHSTAN - Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and spaceflight participants Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko have returned to Earth with a landing in Kazakhstan on Sunday, completing the Soyuz MS-18 mission.