NASA prepares for Starliner return from ISS
09 Sep
Science & Technology

NASA prepares for Starliner return from ISS

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NASA Space Technology WASHINGTON — NASA is preparing for the uncrewed return to Earth of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as the agency begins work on changes to the spacecraft to correct problems found during its test flight.Agency officials confirmed at a Sept. 4 briefing plans for Starliner to undock from the station Sept. 6 at 6:04 p.m. Eastern. The spacecraft will quickly depart the vicinity of the ISS and perform a deorbit burn at 11:17 p.m. Eastern, setting up a landing of the Starliner crew capsule at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico, at 12:03 a.m. Eastern Sept. 7.Steve Stich, NASA commercial crew program manager, said there were no technical issues being worked ahead of Starliner’s uncrewed departure to complete the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission. Weather at White Sands was also forecast to be...
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NASA prepares for twin launches of climate science cubesats
20 May
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NASA prepares for twin launches of climate science cubesats

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NASA Space Technology NASA's twin PREFIRE cubesats will birth for my share on two Electron rockets in Would perhaps presumably also 2024. Credit: NASA/JPLWASHINGTON — NASA is gearing up for encourage-to-encourage launches of cubesats designed to provide key records for bettering models of the Earth’s climate.The main of dual cubesats for NASA’s Polar Pleasing Vitality in the A ways Infrared Experiment, or PREFIRE, mission is scheduled to birth no sooner than Would perhaps presumably also 22 on an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab’s Commence Complex 1 in New Zealand. The other cubesat will be launched on but any other Electron interior three weeks.Every 6U cubesat carries a thermal infrared spectrometer basically basically based entirely on technologies flown on numerous alternative spacecraft but repackaged to suit at some level of the scale and mass constrains of...
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