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NASA Sets Date for Next Launch Attempt for Artemis I Moon Mission 

By |2022-10-12T09:00:00-04:00October 12th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA is targeting the next launch attempt of the Artemis I mission for Monday, Nov. 14 with liftoff of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft planned during a 69-minute launch window that opens at 12:07 a.m. EST. Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test to launch SLS and send Orion [...]

El impacto de DART cambió el movimiento de un asteroide en el espacio

By |2022-10-11T13:28:00-04:00October 11th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

El análisis de los datos obtenidos en las últimas dos semanas por el equipo de investigación de la Prueba de redireccionamiento del asteroide doble (DART, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA muestra que el impacto cinético de la nave espacial contra su asteroide objetivo, Dimorphos, alteró con éxito la órbita del asteroide. Esto [...]

NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space

By |2022-10-11T13:12:00-04:00October 11th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale dem [...]

CAPSTONE Team Stops Spacecraft Spin, Clearing Hurdle to Recovery

By |2022-10-07T15:11:00-04:00October 7th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

CAPSTONE team members successfully executed an operation to stop the spacecraft’s spin on Friday, Oct. 7, clearing a major hurdle in returning the spacecraft to normal operations. Following a planned trajectory correction maneuver on Sept. 8, CAPSTONE suffered an issue that caused the spacecraft to spin beyond the capacity of the onboard reaction wheels [...]

Inspections Underway for Rocket, Spacecraft Before Setting Launch Date

By |2022-10-06T17:47:00-04:00October 6th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are in the process of preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the next launch attempt in November for the Artemis I mission. Check-outs conducted this week will allow NASA to finalize the work schedule before rolling SLS and Orion back to [...]

Weather Provides Perfect Backdrop for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Liftoff

By |2022-10-05T16:21:00-04:00October 5th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, lift off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022, for the Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim ShiflettBy Jim CawleyNASA’s Kennedy Space Center It was a picture-perfect launch during a sun-splashed afternoon on Florida’s [...]

Dragon Spacecraft Reaches Orbit, News Conference at 1:30 p.m. EDT

By |2022-10-05T12:40:00-04:00October 5th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann, commander; Josh Cassada, pilot; and mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina has safely reached orbit, and the nosecone has been opened. At 1:30 p.m., NASA will host a postlaunch news conference from NASA’s Kennedy Space [...]

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