By Ben Evans, on January 5th, 2021
@NASA_Landsat #Landsat9 mission draws one step closer to Sept 2021 launch, with successful design review completion of ESPA Flight System (EFS). […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 29th, 2020
After a tragic year for us all, 2020’s rocket-launch cadence has achieved both success & failure, as outlined in Part 1 of @AmericaSpace Year in Review article. […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 18th, 2020
Artist’s illustration of the Perseverance rover on Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, is now less than 100 days away from its landing in Jezero Crater on Mars (94 days at the time of this writing). The rover is currently just over 177 million miles (285 million kilometers) from its destination, […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 13th, 2020
@ULALaunch #MightyAtlas successfully launches #NROL101 mission for @NatReconOfc. […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 5th, 2020
@ULALaunch & @NatReconOfc will wait until NET 6 Nov to launch #NROL101 mission. But the weather outlook heading into the weekend does not look promising. […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 3rd, 2020
@ULALaunch will wait until Wednesday at 5:54 p.m. EST to launch @NatReconOfc #NROL101 mission, due to Environmental Control System (ECS) flow-rate reduction issue. Vehicle and payload remain healthy, ULA reports. […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 1st, 2020
On Saturday, @ULALaunch wrapped up Launch Readiness Review (LRR) ops for @NatReconOfc’s #NROL101 mission, targeted for 5:58 p.m. EST Tuesday. […]
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By Ben Evans, on October 26th, 2020
@ULALaunch zeroes-in on Tuesday 3 Nov to launch #MightyAtlas for @NatReconOfc #NROL101 mission. […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on October 25th, 2020
Series of three images showing that the sample collector head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. They also reveal that some particles are escaping into space since the sampler’s mylar flap lid (the black bulge on the left inside the ring) is […]
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By Ben Evans, on October 21st, 2020
@ULALaunch has welcomed #MightyAtlas hardware for @SpaceForceDoD #USSF8 mission to Florida. Launch targeted for early next year. […]
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