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Fully fueled starship stack

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NASA to see if spacecraft can deflect deadly space rocks to crash into asteroids

NASA to see if spacecraft can deflect deadly space rocks to crash into asteroids

On September 26 this year, NASA will purposefully crash a spacecraft into an asteroid – to see what happens next. Credit social media It’s the first step toward a practical solution if an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth — a mission to push potential doomsday asteroids onto less-threatening flight paths. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently took a first look at…

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It does not contribute to the creation of any space debris as well. So far, astronauts had been storing the trash in the Space Station and sending it back to Earth on the Cygnus cargo vehicle. After Cygnus completes its primary mission at the ISS, the astronauts will fill the spacecraft with bags of trash before it is released from the space station for de-orbit, where the entire spacecraft is burned up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Follow 👨‍🚀 @spaience for the best space and astronomy facts. We are a small community of about 3000 active people on Instagram. You can become a part of the family too and share your viewpoints and question with me, use. Let's discover the universe and uncover the deep cosmos. Supernova 🚀🚀🚀 #internationalspacestation #nasafacts #nasanews #nasalaunch #nasadiscovery #nasaspace #nasaspaceflight #nasaspacecenter #astronomyfacts #physicsfacts #physicslover #physicsfact #physicsfun #spacefacts🌚 #spacefactsdaily #spacefactsz #spacefacts #physicsclass #spaience https://www.instagram.com/p/CfwVzbgJsBG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Mars Recovery Mission?  

The Angry Astronaut does not think it is worth the 10 Billion Dollar Price Tag, ‘To Recover Mars Samples?’…  How will NASA fund such a mission, but with Taxpayer Funding? A mission with such costs will take time and create needed jobs to spread the money, ‘The prime objective of NASA and Congress?’…  If you didn’t comprehend the two sentences before the video of the dramatic explanation of the…

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Was singing Witnesses' Waltz tonight while watching a rocket go up.

This might not be the future we want, right now... but having a hope for a future isn't so bad. It's been strange, listening to songs from a point in time when hope for space travel, hope for what sometimes looked like a remarkably solarpunk future, looked more possible maybe. A lot of things happened between these songs and now, and I still like that hope.

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SpaceX Starship first TestFlight

SpaceX finally launched the full stack of starship. Now, normally rockets do one of two things, they either work or they explode with the upper stage either working or falling short of orbit. Spacex however have managed a middle ground where the first stage continuously explodes while still managing to work only for the upper stage to not deploy at all.

It also appears that one of the hydraulic power units exploded about 30 seconds into the flight. The force of the rocket also dug out a hole under the launch platform.

This not only created a mushroom cloud but also flung up chunks of concrete. One of which damaged the vehicle of NASASpaceFlight YouTube channel who were there filming.

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Superheavy booster 14 Raptor engine static fire.

Photos credit Nic Ansuini with NASASPACEFLIGHT

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SpaceX is making good progress on Flight 3 readiness with a full stack on the pad and road closures coming up for a possible Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for Booster 10 and Ship 28. SpaceX continues to work on future flight vehicles, on the path towards achieving operational status with Starship. Flight 3 Full Stack SpaceX rolled out Booster 10 and Ship 28 for what is hoped to be the final time before launch. Booster 10 was rolled out on Feb. 8 during the day and stacked later that night. Ship 28 was then rolled out on Feb. 10 in the middle of the night and stacked the early morning of Feb. 11. Even with the delay during the day, between Booster 10 entering the launch site and Ship 28 settling down, SpaceX managed to complete the entire operation in under 56 hours. This rapid pace will be required in the coming years as SpaceX attempts to ramp up its flight cadence for Starship. See AlsoSpaceX Starship SectionL2 SpaceX/Starship SectionClick here to Join L2 While Booster 10 was in the Mega Bay, SpaceX appears to have made some changes to the bottom of the Liquid Oxygen (LOX) tank. It is now observed there are two sets of new weld lines that appear to be for a set of slosh baffles at the bottom of the tank. Slosh baffles are used to help prevent the liquid propellant from sloshing around the tank. These additions could be in response to the Booster 9 failure during flip and boost back burn, although SpaceX hasn’t officially said what the cause of the failure was. Booster 10 Rollout (Credit: Mary (@bocachicagal) For NSF) For this week, there are currently three closures, running from Feb. 12 through 14. All three days run from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm CST. During these windows, Booster 10 and Ship 28 are set to perform a partial Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) and then a full WDR probably a day or so later. For a partial, SpaceX is expected to only load the booster and ship to possibly around half full or less, testing all of the new systems and changes to the Orbital Launch Pad (OLP). A WDR is where SpaceX and other launch companies test a rocket and its countdown. During a WDR, the vehicle is fully loaded with propellants, in the case of SpaceX’s Starship, it is LOX and Liquid Methane (LCH4). While it is loaded, the full launch countdown is run through right up to engine ignition. However, the engines aren’t ignited, and after the countdown and other testing is completed, the vehicle is detanked. SpaceX has completed a WDR for the past two flights, Jan. 23, 2023 for Booster 7 and Ship 24, then Oct. 24, 2023 for Booster 9 and Ship 25. In this case, teams will be testing several changes to the tank farm, including the addition of four more subcoolers on the LOX side plus two pumps and one more subcooler and pump on the LCH4 side. Along with that, teams removed the old water shell tank and the repurposed CH4 tank that became a water tank.  Starship holding a bellyful of prop.https://t.co/KkFieN73zJ pic.twitter.com/WoXppLiMbK — Chris Bergin – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) October 24, 2023 With all of these changes, SpaceX should be able to have a shorter countdown for propellant load, where instead of 97 mins to load all of the LOX and LCH4, it could be reduced to around 50 mins. After completing a partial and full WDR, the plans for this stack are unknown. Teams have yet to install the S28 and SpaceX decals on Ship 28. While it was on the engine install stand, teams may have swapped some Raptors. During the lift onto Booster 10, however, no stiffener rings were installed on the Raptor vacuum engines. The stiffeners are required in order to static fire the Raptor Vacuum engines on the ground. Nice view of the Raptors. pic.twitter.com/B3s6uyk7WW — Chris Bergin – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) February 11, 2024 However, that doesn’t fully rule out a static fire since teams can reinstall the rings if needed, and the sea-level raptors can still be static-fired. Although in the early morning of Feb. 12th SpaceX destacked Ship 28 from Booster 10 after crews had a lift up looking at one of the ship clamps. After destack, teams spent the day working on the clamps on the hot stage ring and on the ship side. This destack could be because during stack the clamps might have been damaged and require repair. By Tuesday morning, Ship 28 was restacked, allowing SpaceX to return to the configuration that will allow for the WDR test campaign. After a busy few days at Starbase, SpaceX has stacked once again Starship Ship 28 atop Booster 10, in preparation of their upcoming testing campaign, as soon as this week. Stay tuned to @NASASpaceflight's Starbase Live 24/7 to see what happens next: https://t.co/wTIGOIV9NO pic.twitter.com/o58XU74ll3 — Elisar Priel (@ENNEPS) February 13, 2024 Launch Pad The OLP has been receiving some finishing touches as SpaceX continued to prep the pad for Flight 3. All of the scaffolding, plus an alignment rig used to align the hold-down arms and clamps, was removed shortly before Booster 10 rolled to the pad. Cleaned up OLM ahead of Booster 10 Rollout (Credit: Mary (@bocachicagal) For NSF) Teams have also continued to add the final pieces of shielding to the tower’s concrete base, which will help prevent erosion on the concrete. Along with that, there have been several small things SpaceX continues to finish up as Flight 3 gets stacked for the first time.  Work is also taking place on the new blast wall that protects the LOX tank farm components and the communication bunker at the Orbital Tank Farm (OTF), as well as painting the new stiffener bars that were placed on the exposed cryo shells. FAA Update NSF received a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on the current status for the launch modification for Flight 3 of Starship. The FAA said that the mishap investigation for OFT-2 is still open, pending more information from SpaceX. The license modification requires all needed information to be submitted and reviewed, and the investigation needs to be closed before Starship returns to flight. SpaceX has yet to submit all necessary information for the launch license modification. Statement by the FAA provided to @NASASpaceflight : pic.twitter.com/Jdf90dvT5z — Adrian Beil (@BCCarCounters) February 7, 2024 SpaceX and FAA are working together to resolve the investigation, and Starship returned to flight.  Vehicle Update After Flight 3, Booster 11 and Ship 29 are slated for Flight 4. Currently, based on a SpaceX post on X last week, Booster 11 may have all of its engines installed and could be very close to being ready for a static fire. Ship 29 should also be getting its engines – if it already doesn’t have them all – as Raptors have been seen going into Mega Bay 2. If Flight 3 goes well and the pad is in good shape, Booster 11 and Ship 29 could roll out relatively shortly after launch. Booster 12 (Left) and Booster 11 (Right) in the Mega Bay (Credit: Sean Doherty for NSF) For Flight 5, there is Booster 12 and Ship 30. Booster 12 is currently sitting on the center work stand in the Mega Bay, getting fitted with engines ahead of static fire testing. Ship 30 is in the High Bay, slowly getting ready to take the second ship work stand recently installed in Mega Bay 2. Flight 6 has gotten a big update in the past few weeks, as Booster 13 is fully stacked and will be completed ahead of cryo-proof for the next few months. Ship 31 is having its crane lift points tiled over and general heat shield work ahead of cryo testing. With a full stack for Flight 3 at the pad, a possible WDR on the horizon, and an update from the FAA, Flight 3 is getting closer and closer to launch. Lead photo via Mary (@bocachicagal) for NSF. The post Starship Flight 3 Fully Stacked for WDR testing appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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mornin', 9/25 and 26

📸: NasaSpaceFlight's Starbase Live

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SpaceX apila el Ship 25 y el Booster 9, se prepara para el vuelo

Escrito por Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera en el sitio web NASASpaceflight SpaceX mobio el barco 25 al sitio de lanzamiento y lo apiló encima del Super Heavy Booster 9, trayendo de regreso un cohete Starship completamente apilado a Starbase desde el 20 de abril en su devud de lanzamiento Una vista de la sección del domo común del Barco 25 que muestra el nuevo conjunto de cargas agregadas al…

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RVac 235 | NSF

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Videos: A SpaceX overview + Starship reports

Here is a sampling of videos about SpaceX and the Starship project. ** Public presentations about SpaceX are usually provided by Elon Musk or Gwynne Shotwell. However, here is an excellent overview of the company given by Kiko Dontchev, Vice President of Launch, at the Summit At Sea event last May. Curious how SpaceX went from 13 launches in 2019 to pacing for 100 in 2023? As VP of Launch at SpaceX, Kiko Dontchev goes into work every day with the simple goal of making space travel as accessible as air travel, and he is well on his way. In this talk, Kiko will dive into SpaceX’s exponential growth approach, Elon’s problem-solving algorithm, and becoming the most prolific launcher of all time. https://youtu.be/ZOWakxXjotg ** Several new media sources have risen in the past couple of years that report extensively on SpaceX Starship related activities. A sampling of these include: - LabPadre at YouTube,  including live webcams - RGV Aerial Photography - YouTube - NASASpaceflight at YouTube, including live webcams - Marcus House - YouTube - What about it!? - YouTube - CSI Starbase - YouTube - Starship Gazer - YouTube Here, for example, are three reports on recent Starship developments: https://youtu.be/t5ROiavhK-k https://youtu.be/YO0oXXsOJ-4 https://youtu.be/HU76XUh2IDY ** The design, development, and commercial potential of Starship are presented in the SpaceX Starship report, for which I was the primary author. Initially published by NewSpace Global in March 2023, we updated it in May to include coverage of the first flight test.

================== Check out the The Lurio Report for news and analysis of key developments in NewSpace The latest issue: Starships’ Second Flight, Blue HLS, Return Sustainably Vol. 18, No. 2, July 16, 2023 Space Frontier Foundation Award for NewSpace Journalism ================== Read the full article

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How to watch SpaceX's 1st Starship space launch live online for free today (April 17) - Space.com

* How to watch SpaceX's 1st Starship space launch live online for free today (April 17)  Space.com * SpaceX Launches Starship Flight Test  NASASpaceflight * Elon Musk sets low expectations before first SpaceX launch of Starship, most powerful rocket ever built  CNN * FAA clears Musk's SpaceX for launch of massive rocket  WHAS11 * Coast Guard speaks on boat safety during SpaceX lauch  KVEO-TV * View Full Coverage on Google News

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Nuclear propulsion with Pulsar Fusion!

The Angry Astronaut is one-on-one with the founder of Pulsar Fusion and is taken on a tour of the facilities. Angry asks questions that you might not know to ask if you have not kept up with my comments? ‘I’m glad Angry reads my comments—at least a few.??’ My past comments are available to read at; https://thenewmars.wordpress.com/?s=nuclear+engine The Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine made by…

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Astra outlines its plan to avoid Nasdaq delisting, including possible reverse stock split

A view from onboard the upper stage of rocket LV0009 during the company’s livestream on March 15, 2022. Astra / NASASpaceflight Spacecraft engine manufacturer and small rocket builder Astra on Thursday outlined a plan to avoid having its stock delisted from the Nasdaq. With an exchange-imposed deadline of April 4 drawing near – and Astra’s stock still below the $1 a share level it needs to…