NASA Teams Change Brakes to Keep Artemis Crew Safe
10 Aug
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NASA Teams Change Brakes to Keep Artemis Crew Safe

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NASA Space Technology Recently, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center met with engineering teams at a central Florida amusement park to share knowledge on a new braking system NASA is using for its launch pad emergency egress system for Artemis missions.“We have a new magnetic braking system for the Artemis emergency egress system and NASA hasn’t used this technology on the ground infrastructure side before to support launches,” said Jesse Berdis, mobile launcher 1 deputy project manager for EGS. “I realized we have neighbors 50 miles from us in Orlando that are essentially the world experts on magnetic braking systems.”For Artemis, teams will use a track cable that connects the mobile launcher to the terminus site near the perimeter of NASA Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39Bwhere four baskets,...
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NASA pushes Crew-9 launch to September amid uncertainty of Starliner’s return timeline
07 Aug
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NASA pushes Crew-9 launch to September amid uncertainty of Starliner’s return timeline

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NASA Space Technology The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station poses during training at SpaceX’s Hawthorne facility. Image: SpaceXNASA is delaying the launch of the next space station crew as it continues to work through thruster issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. In a blog post, the agency said the launch of the Crew-9 mission, aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, is now targeted for no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24.“This adjustment allows more time for mission managers to finalize return planning for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test currently docked to the orbiting laboratory,” NASA wrote. “Starliner ground teams are taking their time to analyze the results of recent docked hot-fire testing, finalize flight rationale for the spacecraft’s integrated propulsion system, and confirm system reliability ahead of Starliner’s return to Earth.”The...
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Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut crew named, begins training in Houston
07 Aug
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Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut crew named, begins training in Houston

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NASA Space Technology The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured docked to the space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Dragon Freedom carried four Axiom Mission-2 astronauts to the orbital lab on May 22, 2023, including Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. Image: NASAThe full crew of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station was announced on Monday as they officially began training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.The mission, dubbed Ax-4, will include a pilot from India and mission specialists from Poland and Hungary. Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will once again sit in the commander seat, leading her second mission as part of Axiom Space’s astronaut corps.“I look forward to commanding my second commercial human spaceflight mission with...
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Massive Solar Storm Removed Earth’s ‘Tail’ and Gave It Wings Instead
07 Aug
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Massive Solar Storm Removed Earth’s ‘Tail’ and Gave It Wings Instead

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NASA Space Technology An overwhelming solar burst from the Sun hit the Earth hard enough to change its entire magnetic field, researchers have found.Astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center detected an explosion originating from April 2023 that disturbed its natural magnetosphere for two hours.Similar to a supersonic jet being pelted by intense high-speed winds, Earth is perpetually bombarded by a stream of charged particles from the Sun, known as solar wind.A view of Earth from the Space Shuttle Discovery shows late afternoon sun on the Andes Mountains. NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) observed the Earth to better understand how solar winds reshaped its electromagnetic field...Getty Images Usually, the Earth moves throughout the solar system with a magnetic field shaped like a tail at its nightside during interactions with solar wind. Experts often compare...
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