Tag: International Space Station
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Regulatory filings suggest SpaceX plans November launch with mystery payload
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at launch pad 39A in Florida. Credit: SpaceX Information found in federal regulatory filings suggests SpaceX plans to conduct a Falcon 9 rocket launch as soon as mid-November with an unidentified payload that has so far escaped public disclosure. It is unusual for such a mission to…
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Progress cargo freighter begins two-day trek to space station
Editor’s Note: Updated at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) after confirmation of successful launch. Credit: TsENKI TV/Spaceflight Now A Russian Progress freighter carrying nearly three tons of fuel, cargo and supplies for the International Space Station took off from Kazakhstan Saturday, two days after an uncommon last-minute abort for its Soyuz booster. The unpiloted Progress MS-07…
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Watch astronauts flip when they get to play with a fidget spinner on the space station
We’re not entirely sure if fidget spinners are still a thing on Earth. But judging by a new video from NASA, they’re still cool on the International Space Station. The video uploaded on Friday by the Johnson Space Center YouTube account was trending Saturday on the social platform. “How long does it spin? I’m not…
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Russian resupply launch aborted, curbing express trip to station
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket on its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodome in Kazakhstan after an aborted countdown Thursday. Credit: TsENKI TV/Roscosmos The launch of a Soyuz rocket with a Progress refueling and resupply freighter was aborted seconds before liftoff Thursday in a rare scrub for Russia’s workhorse rocket, delaying the start of a journey to…
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Astronauts stage second spacewalk in five days
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Randy Bresnik seen in an image from a camera installed Tuesday by spacewalkers outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Five days after work to replace the grapple fitting on one end of the space station’s robot arm, commander Randy Bresnik and flight engineer Mark…
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Wallops launch base receives final hardware delivery for next Cygnus mission
The Cygnus spacecraft’s service module was packed up at Orbital ATK’s facility in Dulles, Virginia, before shipment to its launch base on Virginia’s Eastern Shore last week. Credit: Orbital ATK Orbital ATK shipped the final major piece of hardware for the next Cygnus space station resupply mission to a launch base on Virginia’s Eastern Shore…
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Russian Progress supply ship poised for swift trip to space station
Russian ground crews are readying a robotic Progress cargo freighter for launch Thursday on an expedited trek to the International Space Station that should take less than three-and-a-half hours from liftoff to docking, cutting in half the normal transit time. The Progress MS-07 supply ship is loaded with several tons of food, spare parts, fuel,…
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Spacewalk concludes with successful robot arm repair
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei worked on the space station’s robotic arm during a spacewalk Thursday. Credit: NASA Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station early Thursday and performed what amounted to hand transplant surgery on the lab’s Canadian-built robot arm, removing a crippled grapple…
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Station astronauts prep for spacewalk to repair robotic arm
Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei are pictured inside their spacesuits during a recent rehearsal for Thursday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei plan to head outside the International Space Station Thursday on a spacewalk to replace one end of the lab’s Canadian-built robotic arm, a changeout that engineers say…
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One small teraflop: HPE’s supercomputer takes a giant leap on the space station
HPE’s Spaceborne Computer is installed on the International Space Station. (HPE Photo) The most powerful computer ever sent into space proved its mettle this month by registering a processing speed in excess of a trillion floating-point calculations per second, a measure that’s known as a teraflop. “HPE’s Spaceborne Computer is the first high-performance commercial off-the-shelf…