Entire NASA astronaut corps eligible for Artemis missions
Original Publication Date: 2022-08-06 15:52
NASA's chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps is eligible for Artemis 2. Artemis 2 will be the first crewed flight of Orion, going around the moon on a flight lasting about 10 days. The four-person crew will include one Canadian astronaut as part of a December 2020 agreement.
NASA heliophysics smallsats to share launch with astrophysics mission
Original Publication Date: 2022-08-08 03:34
NASA announces four smallsats will share a ride to space on a Falcon 9. The mission, PUNCH, will fly as a rideshare on the agency's SPHEREx mission. PUNCH features four satellites, each weighing about 40 kilograms. The spacecraft carry instruments to study how the solar corona transitions.
India’s new SSLV rocket fails in first launch
Original Publication Date: 2022-08-07 13:09
India's Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) failed to reach orbit Aug. 6. The rocket's kick stage malfunctioned, sending satellites into the wrong orbit. The three-stage vehicle is capable of placing up to 500 kilograms of payload to orbit. It was carrying the 135-kilogram EOS-02 satellite and an eight-kilogram cubesat.
Italian satellite may fly NASA Earth science payload
Original Publication Date: 2022-08-06 15:02
NASA in talks with Italian Space Agency to fly air pollution instrument. Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) was originally scheduled to fly on a commercial smallsat. MAIA is designed to study particulate matter air pollution in urban areas. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems is no longer hosting the MAIA instrument.
Live coverage: India’s new smallsat launcher lifts off on first flight – Spaceflight Now
Original Publication Date: 2022-08-07 00:00
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The SSLV or Small Satellite Launch Vehicle conducted its launch debut from Sriharikota, India on Sunday, August 7 at 03:48 UTC. An issue with the fourth stage resulted in the satellites being deployed in an unusable orbit. The SSLV program’s genesis was a December 2015 National Institute of Advanced Studies proposal to create a “Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-1”
Commercial Archives
SpaceX has launched South Korea’s first mission to the Moon on Thursday. A flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket launched the Danuri spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Danuri, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), will be the first mission to the moon conducted by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute.
International Archives
Small Satellite Launch Vehicle conducted its launch debut from Sriharikota, India on Sunday, August 7 at 03:48 UTC. The SSLV program’s genesis was a December 2015 National Institute of Advanced Studies proposal to create a “Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-1” to launch small national security payloads on demand.
Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite – Spaceflight101
China conducted a rare commercial launch of a Long March 3B rocket with the APStar-6C communications satellite for APT Satellite Holdings. Long March 3B lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 16:06 UTC on a mission of under half an hour to lift the spacecraft into an elliptical Geostationary Transfer Orbit. Confirmation of launch success was provided by APT Satellite around 40 minutes after liftoff when the satellite had been separated into its target orbit.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reaches new Heights in latest Test Flight – Spaceflight101
Blue Origin's reusable New Shepard launch system reached new heights in a test designed to expand the vehicle’s operational envelope by sending it to a peak altitude of 107 Kilometers. Sunday’s flight marked the second for this particular set of hardware, following up on the successful December 2017 mission that debuted “Crew Capsule 2.0”
ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station
A veteran NASA spacewalker and an EVA rookie from Japan ended their week with nearly six hours of work outside the International Space Station. The restoration of the Station’s Mobile Servicing System started last year and continued in January to provide Canadarm2 with a new pair of grappling hands.
Featured – Spaceflight101
A SpaceX Falcon 9 took to the skies over Florida’s Cape Canaveral Monday afternoon. The Falcon 9 lifted a flight-proven Dragon spacecraft into orbit for a critical delivery of science gear, supplies and maintenance hardware. It is the first of at least six cargo ships inbound to the U.S. Segment of ISS this year.
News – Spaceflight101
Europe's Copernicus satellite fleet is gearing up for the arrival of its next addition on Wednesday. A Russian Rockot booster set to blast off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 17:57 UTC with the Sentinel-3B multi-function satellite. Read more
Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101
The CZ-11 fourth stage used leftover propellant for a partial de-orbit maneuver, lowering its perigee to 120 Kilometers to significantly accelerate its orbital decay. The rocket re-entered the atmosphere on April 29, 2018 after only three days in orbit. It lifted a cluster of five commercial Earth-imaging satellites into a 500-Kilometer orbit.