Tag: commercial-space
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Starlink launch marks 100 missions since an in-flight Falcon rocket failure
A Falcon 9 rocket takes off Tuesday with 60 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX The oldest Falcon 9 booster in SpaceX’s operational rocket fleet sent 60 more Starlink internet satellites into space Tuesday with a launch from historic pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With the 60 satellites launched Tuesday, SpaceX has sent…
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Crew Dragon brings four astronauts back to nighttime splashdown
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION (Left to right) Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Soichi Noguchi, prior to disembarking the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule after splashdown. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls. Four astronauts strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged to a fiery pre-dawn splashdown…
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Live coverage: Four astronauts return home after 167 days in space
Live coverage of the undocking, re-entry and splashdown of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft with astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi, and Shannon Walker. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SFN LIVE”] [tabbyending] EDITOR’S NOTE: NASA TV’s live coverage of hatch closure, undocking, and splashdown begins at 6 p.m.…
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How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity
An artist’s conception shows Axiom Space’s proposed space station. (Axiom Space Illustration) What will commercial space stations be good for? The application that typically comes up would be their use as space hotels, or maybe zero-gravity research labs and factories. But space industry veteran Rob Meyerson has a different idea in mind — and in his…
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Chinese Long March 6 rocket delivers nine small satellites to space
A Long March 6 rocket lifts with April 27 with nine satellites. Credit: CASC Nine small Chinese satellites, including a technology experiment to test out ways to capture space debris, rode a Long March 6 rocket into orbit April 27 on a rideshare mission managed by China Great Wall Industry Corp., the government-owned enterprise charged…
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Astronauts describe thrilling ride to orbit on Falcon 9 rocket
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION When the countdown hit zero last Friday and the engines powering a previously flown Falcon 9 first stage roared to life for takeoff, the four astronauts strapped into a SpaceX Crew Dragon some 21 stories up started laughing. “So we’re sitting on the launch pad, obviously, and when…
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Crew Dragon return postponed again by poor weather
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) with new undocking and splashdown times. NASA astronaut Shannon Walker, pilot Victor Glover, Crew-1 commander Mike Hopkins, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/NASA/Thomas Pesquet The departure and return to Earth of a four-person space station crew on a SpaceX Dragon capsule…
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Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight
A new message on the homepage of Blue Origin’s website. (BlueOrigin.com screenshot) Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace the high-tech dummy that has flown on previous test flights. In an Instagram post on Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos again said, “It’s…
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“Big relief” as Europe’s Vega rocket returns to service with successful launch
A four-stage Vega launcher blasts off from French Guiana on Wednesday night. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A European Vega rocket deployed six commercial satellites in orbit, including a new Airbus-built eye-in-the-sky for high-resolution Earth-imaging, on a successful launch from French Guiana on Wednesday night after two of the…
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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink spacecraft; FCC clears SpaceX to fly satellites at lower altitudes
SpaceX deployed 60 more Starlink internet-beaming spacecraft into orbit after a fiery late-night blastoff of a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday night from Cape Canaveral, surpassing the 1,500-satellite mark since Starlink launches began. Another Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to haul the next batch of Starlink satellites to space next week. The launch of the…