The primary payload aboard this mission includes nine of the latest generation SuperDove satellites from Planet, the operator of the world’s largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites. Each of the nine SuperDoves in Flock 4e’ will be integrated with and deployed from Rocket Lab’s Maxwell dispensers, the industry’s lightest CubeSat dispenser in its class. Planet’s constellation [...]
Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the tenth Mercury Program test flight and the first Mercury-Redstone uncrewed flight test. It was the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle. Intended to be an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight, it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The launch [...]
‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical’ is a dedicated mission for Capella Space, an information services company providing Earth observation data on demand.Capella’s payload, ‘Sequoia’, is a single 100 kg class microsatellite which will be the first publicly available satellite in the company’s commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation. By positioning the satellite to a [...]
What's the correct pronunciation here? Momentum is building among planetary scientists to send a major mission to Uranus or Neptune — the most distant and least explored planets in the Solar System. Huge gaps remain in scientists’ knowledge of the blueish planets, known as the ice giants, which have been visited only once by a [...]
On May 23, 2020 NASA and SpaceX conducted a full and final dress rehearsal in preparation for their upcoming Demo-2 launch to the International Space Station. This is highlight footage released by NASA of the dress rehearsal activities. This video is buried in the NASA galleries so I wanted to provided here for easier access!There [...]
NASA conducted their first (of two) flight readiness reviews (FRR) to prepare for the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. This is the press conference following the review which resulted in a GO to proceed towards launch on May 27, 2020. Timestamps listed below.This is a highlight clip from our live stream. Full [...]
NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken & Doug Hurley arrived to NASA's Kennedy Space Center on May 20, 2020 in preparation for SpaceX's Demo-2 (DM-2) mission which is scheduled for May 27, 2020 at 4:33pm EDT (21:33 UTC). Timestamps listed below.This is a highlight clip from our live stream. Full live stream video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJzgkNgi1hg />#SpaceX [...]
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