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Machines that grip, grapple, and maneuver will soon have their go at maintaining the fleet of small spacecraft that encircle Earth.
The technology could be used to quickly deploy artificial organs to hospitals. A U.S.-based startup co-founded by an ex-SpaceX intern wants to make payloads rain down from Earth’s orbit.
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NASA wants to launch its Space Launch System on a trip to the Moon. Here’s how the agency’s giant rocket compares with SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket, which Elon Musk wants to use to go to Mars and beyond.
Check out this time lapse showing the retraction of half of Platform C in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building today at.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. On March 17, NASA’s Space Launch System & Orion Spacecraft will roll out to Launch Pad 39B for wet dress rehearsal for Artemis I.
It’s likely not from SpaceX as originally reported, but the mysterious piece of junk has captivated spaceflight fans as they watch its journey across the skies.
Land Rover is teaming up with Virgin Galactic for the Adventure of a Lifetime sweepstakes, which will see one lucky Land Rover owner literally fly to space at some point in the near future.
Anyone who currently owns a Land Rover can register online by submitting their vehicle’s VIN and some other bits of info, which counts as one entry. Placing an order for a new Land Rover nets 50 entries, while actually buying or leasing a vehicle gets you 100 entries. Anyone who enters also gets credit for referring people to the sweepstakes, and there’s no limit to how many entries you can get.
This isn’t the first time Land Rover has partnered with Richard Branson’s space-tourism venture. Range Rover SUVs have been used to tow the company’s space planes at various events and presentations, and in 2019 a special Range Rover Astronaut Edition was unveiled. That model could only be purchased by those who signed up to be an astronaut with Virgin, and it came with unique styling elements. As the Astronaut Edition was based on the now-old Range Rover, we wouldn’t be surprised if Land Rover releases a new version based on the fifth-gen Range Rover that was revealed last year.
Two NASA astronauts are assembling gear today they will install on the International Space Station during an upcoming spacewalk. The rest of the Expedition 66 crew focused on life science, space physics gear, and orbital maintenance.
NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron began assembling modification kits today to ready the station’s truss structure for new roll-out solar arrays during the first spacewalk. The roll-out solar arrays will be delivered on an upcoming SpaceX Cargo Dragon mission and installed at a later date. The duo will set their U.S. spacesuits to battery power at 7:50 a.m. on March 15, signifying the beginning of their planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk. The second spacewalk on March 23 will see more roll-out solar array preparations by two yet to be named astronauts.
Roll-out solar array technology will not only augment the space station’s existing solar arrays and power system, they will also be used to power the Lunar Gateway. Gateway is a space station developed by NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, ESA (European Space Agency), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that will orbit the Moon and will serve as a hub for crew visiting the lunar surface and beyond. Gateway will enable new scientific investigations in the cis-lunar environment during crewed and uncrewed periods.