

WATCH SPACEX CREW-4 MISSION DEPART SPACE STATION ON THURSDAY (OCT.

NASA and SpaceX officials waved off return opportunities Wednesday and Thursday d. NASA, SPACEX DELAY CREW CAPSULE RETURN TO WAIT FOR BETTER WEATHER - Four astronauts are preparing to ride a SpaceX Dragon crew capsule from the International Space Station back to Earth this week to close out a nearly six-month expedition, targeting splashdown off the coast of Florida. 12), this time to launch a satellite intended for environmental monitoring.Ī radar satellite known as S-SAR01, nicknamed Huanjing-2E, flew to space atop a Long March 2C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shan. MoreĬHINA LAUNCHES ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE IN 3RD FLIGHT IN 6 DAYS - China sent its third rocket aloft in a week on Wednesday (Oct. NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Mo. NASA INVITES MEDIA TO LAUNCH OF WATER-MONITORING SATELLITE - Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a pathfinder mission about Earth’s water that will use new technology to address climate change and its impact on our environment. In a press release on Wednesday, the company says the prototypes, charmingly named Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2, will be riding. MoreĪMAZON’S SET TO LAUNCH ITS PROTOTYPE INTERNET SATELLITES EARLY NEXT YEAR - mazon is getting ready to launch two test satellites for its Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation, built to compete with services like SpaceX Starlink and OneWeb. The four-person crew, consisting of NASA astronauts Kjell N. SPACEX CREW-4 UNDOCKS FROM THE ISS AHEAD OF RETURN TO EARTH - After living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for close to six months, Crew-4 and its crew of international astronauts are preparing to undock from the orbiting laboratory and begin their return to Earth.
