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Artist’s conception of a Breakthrough Starshot spacecraft, a tiny circuit board-like “wafer” attached to a lightsail. Image Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives Now that we know the closest star system to us has at least one planet, an Earth-mass and potentially habitable one at that, there is one big question a lot of people are […] Composite Chandra image of four supernovae: the Crab Nebula, Tycho, G292.0+1.8, and 3C58. Image Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO The Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA’s space telescope which observes the universe using X-rays, has now completed its 15th year of operations, and astronomers are celebrating the anniversary with a series of special images from the orbiting observatory. […] Patrick Hull, left, and Brent Gaddes, right, receive special commendation awards for their work on critical flight hardware for the Orion spacecraft’s first mission later this fall. John Casper, center, Orion special assistant for program integration and a former astronaut, presented the awards at an Orion flight hardware celebration at the Marshall Center.Image […] Mark Becnel, left, and his brother, Eric Becnel, with a mockup of the Chargersat-1 in the UAH Engineering Design and Prototyping Facility. The brothers plan to start a cube satellite production company after graduating with master’s degrees in aerospace engineering. Image Credit: Michael Mercier / UAH Two students soon to earn master’s degrees in […] SLS staging of solid rocket motors. Photo credit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
In August, the Space Launch System Program (SLS) passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The next major milestone for the program is Key Decision Point C (KDP-C). If SLS passes this decision point, it will progress from the formulation […] NASA has repeatedly tested out 3-D-printed components. The most recent of these took place on Aug. 22. Photo Credit: NASA With several smaller, successful tests completed using the technology, NASA conducted another test firing of an engine that had a fuel injector produced by 3-D printing. The process, known as additive manufacturing, has […] Just last month, Aerojet Rocketdyne tested out a rocket engine fuel injector that was produced by 3D printing. AmericaSpace spoke with Jeff Haynes, a program manager working to develop this technology for space flight purposes. He talked about the first test, what the limitations are for 3D-printed parts, as well as the ramifications […] Jonathon Walden is the lead designer for the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Stage Adapter (MSA) being manufactured at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The MSA will attach the Orion spacecraft to a Delta IV rocket for its 2014 Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). It also will provide early flight experience for SLS’s […] During one of Mark Usciak’s trips to Marshall Space Flight Center, he took some images of the gas generator being worked on for possible use on NASA’s Space Launch System. Photo Credit Mark Usciak / AmericaSpace (inset by NASA) Last January we detailed how engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) were […] |
 Next Launch AEHF-5 on a Atlas V 551 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 8 Aug 19 at 9:00 GMT 8 Aug 19 at 5:00am Eastern 
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