NASA and SpaceX Set Target Date for Crew-9 Space Station Mission
31 Jul
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NASA and SpaceX Set Target Date for Crew-9 Space Station Mission

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NASA Space Technology NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 stands in front of a Falcon 9 first-stage booster at SpaceX’s HangarX facility in Florida. Credit: SpaceX<span aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="NASANASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is the United States government agency responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Established in 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act, NASA has led the U.S. in space exploration efforts, including the Apollo moon-landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle program." data-gt-translate-attributes="[{[{" attribute tabindex="0" role="link">NASA and <span aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="SpaceXCommonly known as SpaceX, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company that was founded by Elon Musk in 2002. Headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the company designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX's ultimate goal is...
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SpaceX, NASA to launch Crew-9 mission next month
27 Jul
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SpaceX, NASA to launch Crew-9 mission next month

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NASA Space Technology SpaceX and NASA said on Friday they plan to launch the space agency's Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Aug. 18. The announcement comes a day after the Federal Aviation administration cleared SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to return to space following a rare mid-flight failure earlier this month had grounded it. The Falcon 9, the world's most frequently used rocket, was grounded after one rocket broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellitesthe first failure in more than seven years of a rocket relied upon by the global space industry. NASA and SpaceX will embark on their ninth crew rotation mission to the ISS, with NASA astronauts Zena CardmanNick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, launched aboard a SpaceX...
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SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next

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Politics tamfitronics The e-mail arrived, like a bolt from blue, on the otherwise typical Thursday afternoon of May 9. The message was from a journalist, asking me, an astronomer, for an interview about a farmer who had reportedly found space junk while prepping his fields for springtime seeding, just an hour’s drive from my home in Saskatchewan. “Yeah, right,” I said to myself as I tapped out my affirmative reply. The odds are already long for any particular place on Earth to be struck by orbital debris—so the chances for it to happen practically in the backyard of someone like me who studies the issue felt astronomically low, simply too far-fetched to be true.A quick check of my news feed proved me wrong. One of the top stories was about the space junk strike, and...
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SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch gamma-ray astronomy mission
03 Jul
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SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch gamma-ray astronomy mission

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NASA Space Technology The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) will study gamma-ray emissions in the galaxy using a spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Credit: UC BerkeleyWASHINGTON NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a small gamma-ray astronomy mission on a Falcon 9 in 2027.NASA announced July 2 that it awarded a contract to SpaceX to launch the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) spacecraft, a small Explorer-class, or SMEX, mission into low Earth orbit. The contract, valued at about $69 million, covers the August 2027 launch and related activities.A NASA spokesperson told SpaceNews the agency could not release details on the number of companies that bid on the launch, which was done as a task order through the NASA Launch Services 2 contract vehicle. Such information is considered source selection sensitive, the agency said.NASA selected...
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