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Jeff Foust

@jeff_foust

4 years

The Crew-1 “0-g indicator” is a Baby Yoda.

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4 years

Fact check: - NASA was neither closed nor dead at the start of the current administration. - Many recent NASA successes have their origins in prior administrations. - The Starship test the president is retweeting has nothing to do with NASA; it’s a private effort by SpaceX.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again. Now it is the most vibrant place of its kind on the Planet...And we have Space Force to go along with it. We have accomplished more than any Administration in first 3 1/2 years. Sorry, but it all doesn’t happen with Sleepy Joe!

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5 years

Subcommittee chairman Cruz: pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space, hence need for a Space Force.

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3 years

I didn’t have a Twitter spat between a former NASA astronaut and the current head of Roscosmos on my bingo card for 2022, and yet here we are.

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4 years

NASA’s Kathy Lueders said at a Spaceport Summit panel that the LOX prevalve issue that delayed the SLS core stage Green Run test is because engineers “had a hard time getting it to be fully open.” No update on when the test might be rescheduled.

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Jeff Foust

@jeff_foust

2 years

Quite the show.

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@jeff_foust

4 years

The U.S. Space Force flag joins those of the other services at the inaugural.

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@jeff_foust

3 years

Musk’s response to the Blue Origin GAO protest is… in character.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

3 years

@kchangnyt Can’t get it up (to orbit) lol

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@jeff_foust

3 years

Layer 5 is now fully tensioned. Deployment of JWST’s sunshield is complete.

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@jeff_foust

2 years

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says DART successfully changed the orbit of Dimorphos, decreasing its orbital period around Didymos from 11hrs 55 mins to 11hrs 23mins, a 32-minute change.

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4 months

"We've got s'more Starship test flights coming up soon."

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3 years

Broomstick gathers some more soot.

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@jeff_foust

4 years

A reminder that NASA was not “closed up” when President Trump took office, and that the commercial crew program that enabled this launch started in the Obama administration, building upon the commercial cargo program from the G.W. Bush administration.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

A great launch! @NASA was a closed up disaster when we took over. Now it is again the “hottest”, most advanced, space center in the world, by far!

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1 year

A lot of speeches and celebration after the landing. Hopefully they can take a break from that soon and provide some post-landing images and data from Chandrayaan-3.

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@jeff_foust

3 years

Appreciated the sentiment of this bumper sticker. (And it did: I saw it driving home from a COVID vaccination.)

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@jeff_foust

2 years

NASA is paying SpaceX $2.9 billion for that trip to the Moon…

The Recount

@therecount

2 years

“Lots of luck on his trip to the moon.” — President Biden responds to Elon Musk saying he has a “super bad feeling” about the economy

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2 years

SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX will attempt a 33-engine Super Heavy static fire test tomorrow.

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@jeff_foust

4 years

Headline of the day: “Elon Musk will need more than 10,000 missiles to nuke Mars — Roscosmos”

Elon Musk will need more than 10,000 missiles to nuke Mars — Roscosmos

Earlier, Musk proposed an ambitious idea to terraform Mars by bombarding the planet’s poles with a large number of nuclear weapons

tass.com

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@jeff_foust

3 years

Retired executive takes new job as rideshare driver.

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2 years

In honor of the years of delays in the development of JWST, the White House event where the first full-color image will be released has been delayed from 5pm to 5:30pm EDT.

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2 years

🤔

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3 years

Useful chart from NASA’s Launch Services Program presented at today’s planetary sciences decadal survey steering committee meeting, comparing performance of launch vehicles at several C3 (characteristic energy) values.

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3 years

JWST has an official launch date: December 18, 2021. Happy Holidays!

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3 years

I get a lot of spammy DMs, but this one is… intriguing.

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4 years

Far less than a full duration burn. Still looked spectacular.

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3 years

The brooms are working.

SpaceX

@SpaceX

3 years

Deployment of 47 Starlink satellites confirmed

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3 years

In a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Jeff Bezos offers to cover billions of dollars of costs if NASA will give Blue Origin a second Human Landing System contract:

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Jeff Foust

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3 months

SpaceX has won a $843 million NASA contract to build the US Deorbit Vehicle for the ISS. That vehicle will handle the final deorbit of the station around 2030 (or so).

NASA Selects International Space Station US Deorbit Vehicle - NASA

NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space

www.nasa.gov

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Jeff Foust

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3 years

SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell said yesterday she believes Starship will be flying “large numbers of people” in five years. “I recognize,” she added, “we never make our timelines, so they’re aspirational. But you have to aim high.”

SpaceX adds to latest funding round

SpaceX has added more than $300 million to a fundraising round announced earlier this year to support continued work on Starship and Starlink.

spacenews.com

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@jeff_foust

5 years

PM Modi watching intently…

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Jeff Foust

@jeff_foust

3 years

Exhale, everybody.

NASA Webb Telescope

@NASAWebb

3 years

The James Webb Space Telescope is on track for a launch date of Dec. 22. Additional testing, which was conducted due to an incident in launch preparations, concluded no observatory components were damaged. Observatory fueling operations begin on Nov. 25:

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@jeff_foust

3 years

Who wants to tell them the rocket reentered nearly 24 hours ago?

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

"Risk zone" encompassing all of Americas south of New York predicted for rocket reentry

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3 years

Blue Origin has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over NASA’s selection of SpaceX in the Human Landing System competition. “NASA has executed a flawed acquisition for the Human Landing System program and moved the goalposts at the last minute,” it said.

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@jeff_foust

7 months

So far, this launch looks like a tremendous step forward for Starship, but a major setback in hold music.

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4 years

Hatches are open and the four astronauts of Crew-1 (plus one Baby Yoda) are now on the ISS.

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@jeff_foust

4 years

Something to look forward to.

New Scientist

@newscientist

4 years

Most life on Earth will be killed by lack of oxygen in a billion years

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@jeff_foust

2 years

Gary Henry, senior advisor for national security space solutions at SpaceX, says at a Space Mobility panel that both the Starship booster and pad are in "good shape" after static fire test earlier this month. The test was the "last box to check" before the first orbital launch.

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2 years

Gwynne Shotwell told reporters last week that SpaceX sold the rigs; "they were not the right platform." Still interested in sea-based launch platforms, but the company wants to start flying Starship first and understand it before proceeding.

Gav Cornwell

@SpaceOffshore

2 years

The SpaceX Starship rigs Phobos and Deimos are due to depart from Pascagoula in the next few weeks, per NSF forums. The destination is unknown at the moment. Both rigs have largely sat dormant since they were sold to SpaceX and moved to Pascagoula.

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9 days

Ironies at #WSBW : coffee was served in disposable cups with the SpaceX logo; later, drinks were served in plastic, reusable ULA cups.

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3 years

A couple notes from a talk SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell gave at Caltech that just wrapped up: • SpaceX had been working for a month and a half with the Ukrainian gov’t to get landing rights in the country, then “they tweeted at Elon so we turned it on.” (1/x)

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4 months

Steve Stich cuts Tory Bruno’s tie after the post-launch press conference to mark ULA’s entry into the “human spaceflight club.”

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6 months

The FAA's Kelvin Coleman says at the #payloadspacecapitol event this evening that he didn't see any major issues with last week's Starship launch, but SpaceX still needs to carry out a mishap investigation. SpaceX, he says, is aiming for 6-9 more Starship launches this year.

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3 years

The Crew Dragon’s view of the ISS as it approaches for docking this morning.

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3 years

Full house inside the ISS now that hatches to the Dragon are open.

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1 year

NY Post: "A New Shepherd ship, from the Blue Origin fleet, plunged into the sea after a fiery and aborted launch." Ah yes, the dusty seas of West Texas…

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4 years

oh dear,Moon [from the webcast]

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4 years

Congrats to the UAE for already landing someone on Mars. Too bad they couldn’t afford a spacesuit, though.

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5 months

Some SpaceX charts showing how the company believes it can use Starship to establish a lunar base (from its DARPA LunaA-10 study, being discussed today at the LSIC meeting.)

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6 months

"We need an image to go with our story about the final Delta IV Heavy launch." "Sure, no problem. All rockets look alike, right?"

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3 years

Out: laptop stickers In: laptop masks

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3 years

Four years ago, Elon Musk compared payload fairing recovery to “$6 million in cash in a pallet flying through the air.” SpaceX has caught a lot of $6 million cash pallets since then.

SpaceNews

@SpaceNews_Inc

3 years

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched another set of Starlink satellites Wednesday on a launch that highlighted another aspect of the company’s reusability efforts: reusing payload fairings.

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6 months

Gwynne Shotwell calls Starship's launch last week "incredibly successful" during a panel discussion at Satellite 2024. Flight 4 "in about six weeks," she says; won't carry Starlink satellites.

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Jeff Foust

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2 years

Completion of SpaceX’s 31st launch so far this year, the same number the company conducted in all of 2021.

SpaceX

@SpaceX

2 years

Deployment of 53 Starlink satellites confirmed

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2 years

"Maybe next week we'll have a 33-engine static fire" of the Super Heavy booster, SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier says at AIAA SciTech this morning.

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Jeff Foust

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3 years

NASA says it will attempt a first flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity as soon as Monday:

NASA to Attempt First Controlled Flight on Mars As Soon As Monday - NASA

NASA is targeting no earlier than Monday, April 19, for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at approximately 3:30 a.m. EDT (12:30 a.m. PDT).

www.nasa.gov

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Jeff Foust

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4 years

Maybe you should have stopped at the lunar scientist.

The New York Times

@nytimes

4 years

We spoke to a lunar scientist from NASA, an astrologist, and a tarot reader to find out more about tonight's magical moon.

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3 years

The view from the spaceport shortly after ignition. #Unity22

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1 year

Worth noting SpaceX is no longer using YouTube for launch broadcasts. Unfortunate.

SpaceX

@SpaceX

1 year

Watch Falcon 9 launch 21 @Starlink satellites to orbit

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@jeff_foust

4 years

Nine up, nine down for this Falcon 9 booster.

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1 year

First official post-landing image from Chandrayaan-3.

ISRO

@isro

1 year

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The image captured by the Landing Imager Camera after the landing. It shows a portion of Chandrayaan-3's landing site. Seen also is a leg and its accompanying shadow. Chandrayaan-3 chose a relatively flat region on the lunar surface 🙂

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1 year

Nelson says SpaceX has told NASA that it can repair the pad and prepare the next Starship in about 2 months. Last week’s failure is “not a big downer”.

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4 years

At the Outer Planets Assessment Group meeting, Bob Pappalardo said the Europa Clipper project received formal direction Jan. 25 to cease efforts to support compatibility with SLS; plan is to proceed with a commercial launch vehicle [like Falcon Heavy].

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3 years

Yusaku Maezawa enters the ISS.

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3 years

Ran into one of those Space Coast traffic jams leaving KSC today. What launch is this hardware for, ⁦ @torybruno ⁩?

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@jeff_foust

5 years

I fully expect to see a pirate flag on an upcoming SpaceX mission.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

5 years

@jeff_foust 🏴‍☠️

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3 years

One interesting point skimming through the protest: Blue Origin says its bid was $5.99 billion, a little more than twice as much as SpaceX’s winning bid. (NASA’s source selection statement only said Blue Origin’s price was “significantly higher.”)

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2 years

I’m not quite sure what happened here.

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3 years

“Alexa, open the pod bay doors.”

Amazon’s Alexa to be tested on Artemis 1

The upcoming uncrewed test flight of Orion will include a payload to see how a voice recognition technology could be used to assist astronauts.

spacenews.com

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29 days

No wonder Butch and Suni are stranded. The shuttle retired 13 years ago.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

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TechCrunch Minute: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is returning home empty

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3 years

NASA is announcing at a briefing that Ingenuity is moving from a tech demo phase to an “ops demo” phase to show an aerial platform can support a rover like Perseverance.

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3 years

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris… It is critical that China and all spacefaring nations and commercial entities act responsibly and transparently in space.”

NASA Administrator Statement on Chinese Rocket Debris - NASA

NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson released the following statement Saturday regarding debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket:

www.nasa.gov

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Jeff Foust

@jeff_foust

4 years

At SpaceX, tomorrow is today.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

Starship launch tomorrow. Window opens at 9am.

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3 years

Astrobotic has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch its Griffin Mission 1 lunar lander, carrying NASA’s VIPER lunar rover, in late 2023.

Astrobotic selects Falcon Heavy to launch NASA’s VIPER lunar rover

Astrobotic has signed a contract with SpaceX for the launch of its Griffin lunar lander, carrying a NASA lunar rover, on a Falcon Heavy in 2023.

spacenews.com

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7 years

A summary of Elon Musk’s luncheon talk, leading with plans to end development of Dragon propulsive landings. #ISSRDC

SpaceX drops plans for powered Dragon landings

SpaceX no longer plans to have the next version of its Dragon spacecraft make powered landings, a move with implications for the company’s Mars plans.

spacenews.com

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3 years

In a LEO constellation panel at #SpaceSymposium , SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell confirms that SpaceX paused Starlink launches until it can get laser intersatellite links in place on all future Starlink satellites. Next Starlink launch now planned in about three weeks.

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Lunar Outpost, a company that last year won a $1 award for collecting lunar resources for NASA, got its first, 10% milestone payment at a #SpaceSymposium briefing. Yes, a check for 10¢.

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1 year

NASA noted on the webcast that parachute deployment was at an altitude of about 6,000 meters, versus the expected 1,500 meters. Something didn't go quite according to plan during the landing.

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3 years

This would only affect Northrop Grumman’s imports of RD-181 engines for Antares, as ULA has all the RD-180 engines it needs for its remaining Atlas missions. Other US launch companies limit their use of brooms to cleaning factory floors where they manufacture their own engines.

Katya Pavlushchenko

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3 years

Dmitry Rogozin to Russia24: In response to the sanctions, Roscosmos will no longer supply rocket engines to the United States. "Let them fly on their brooms," he said. (RIA)

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“China is going to build a moon base on the moon,” says a speaker at a Beyond Earth symposium panel. Which, I guess, is a good place to build a moon base.

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4 years

Uh oh, an airspace violation…

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1 year

Saudi Arabia's MBC Group appears to be issuing takedown notices of video of the Ax-2 launch for footage it doesn't own. Not a great look.

Chris Bergin - NSF

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1 year

@_mgde_ @Space_Station @Axiom_Space @SpaceX Our livestream, which includes our own cameras at KSC is blocked due to some Saudi media conglomerate claiming they own it. Unbelievable.

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2 years

Interesting chart in NASA budget documents this morning that show Artemis 3 still launching in 2025, but Artemis 4 pushed back to 2028.

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4 years

FAA states they’ve approved SpaceX’s Starship SN9 launch attempt, and explains why they held up earlier attempts.

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5 years

“…Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space. In this same way I believe we, too, must now recognize the necessity of a Space Force to defend the nation and to protect space commerce and civil space exploration.” (2/2)

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2 years

He adds the company still needs an FAA launch license but expects that in the "very near future." Tells the audience to expect some "must-see TV" sometime in March.

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3 years

If you watch SNL not live on Saturday night but instead the next day on YouTube, you may see ads during Elon Musk’s appearance on the show from a space company—but not SpaceX.

Sierra Nevada Corporation to advertise space spinoff on Saturday Night Live

Sierra Nevada Corporation is taking a novel approach to publicizing the spinoff of its space business: buying ads on “Saturday Night Live.”

spacenews.com

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3 years

On the move again.

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NASA and SpaceX are investigating a delayed opening of one parachute on the cargo Dragon spacecraft that splashed down last week, similar to what happened on the Crew-2 splashdown back in November.

NASA and SpaceX investigating delayed Dragon parachute opening

NASA and SpaceX are investigating the delayed opening of a parachute on a cargo Dragon spacecraft splashdown, an incident similar to one last year.

spacenews.com

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4 years

“Awesome Test. Congrats Starship Team!”

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2 years

NASA’s chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps, and not just an “Artemis Team” subset announced in 2020, will be eligible for Artemis missions. “As long as you are healthy, we’re going to load you on a rocket and shoot you off the planet.”

Entire NASA astronaut corps eligible for Artemis missions

As NASA prepares to select the crew of the second Artemis mission, the agency’s chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps will be eligible.

spacenews.com

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3 years

Jeff Bezos announces that Wally Funk, one of the “Mercury 13” women, will be on the July 20 New Shepard suborbital flight.

Jeff Bezos (@jeffbezos) • Instagram video

www.instagram.com

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Jeff Foust

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4 years

The FAA has emphasized its new streamlined commercial launch regulations, Part 450, intended to support higher launch rates and reusable launchers, although those rules are still in the process of taking effect.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

@NASASpaceflight Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure. Their rules are meant for a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars.

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Masten Space Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday. The company estimates $10-50M in liabilities to creditors that include SpaceX, Astrobotic, Frontier Aerospace, Agile Space Industries and Airbus Defence and Space, among others.

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2 years

I’ve heard that Advanced Space has restored communications with CAPSTONE. Spacecraft appears to be in good condition.

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3 years

Eugene Parker, the solar physicist for whom NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is named, passed away March 15 at the age of 94.

Eugene Parker, ‘legendary figure’ in solar science and namesake of Parker Solar Probe, 1927-2022

Eugene N. Parker, a pioneering astrophysicist who proposed the concept of the solar wind, died March 15. He was 94.

news.uchicago.edu

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3 years

People seem to be taking Jeff Bezos’s upcoming suborbital spaceflight well.

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4 years

SpaceX also wasn’t the only company launching commercial rockets in 2020. Or 2019. Or 2018. Or 2017. Or…

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7 months

Last view from the booster before splashdown.

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3 years

Reeee-jected. Thanks, @verified . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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3 years

NASA says that, because of the protests filed by both Blue Origin and Dynetics, “NASA instructed SpaceX that progress on the HLS contract has been suspended until GAO resolves all outstanding litigation related to this procurement.”

Jeff Foust

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3 years

NASA should have revised its approach to the Human Landing System program or withdrawn the solicitation entirely once it was clear the agency didn’t have the funding to support two companies, Dynetics argues in its protest of the award.

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