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Starlink 10-12 launch bulletin (first booster landing in the Bahamas) in c/spacex
[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 2 days ago

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 days ago

Battery hot-swap confirmed.

Starlink 10-12 launch bulletin (first booster landing in the Bahamas) in c/spacex
[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 2 days ago

Liftoff!

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 days ago

MECO, stage separation, stage 2 ignition, and fairing jettison confirmed.

Starlink 10-12 launch bulletin (first booster landing in the Bahamas) in c/spacex
[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 2 days ago

SpaceX webcast is live. Veronica (Ronnie) Foreman and Zachary Luppen are hosting.

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 days ago

Liftoff!

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Go no-go poll is complete. Everything is green.

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Rocket Lab are live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_Zw8UK3H0

Sam Pieters (Learning & Development Advisor) and Hannah Jury (Project Engineer - Electron) are hosting.

This Electron is launching with an extended payload fairing.

Simultaneous launches today? in c/spaceflightmemes
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That being...?

Webb - Anniversary Edition in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 13 points 2 days ago

Is this some sort of Special Edition meme I'm too Theatrical Release to understand?

Xenon in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 2 days ago

So am I, mate!

Xenon in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, compared to other noble gases, it's pretty rare, and we don't produce very much. If I recall correctly, the 900 kg loaded on the Psyche spacecraft last year represented about 10% of the world production.

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Vast space station qualification article passes major milestone - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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U.S. Air Force extends Sierra Space contract for upper stage rocket engine (spacenews.com)
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UK MOD Taps Airbus to Build £127M Spy Satellite Constellation (europeanspaceflight.com)
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[Eric Berger] After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot (arstechnica.com)
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Curiosity spies stunning clouds at twilight on Mars (arstechnica.com)
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Arkadia Space to supply MaiaSpace thrusters (spacenews.com)
 

Spanish propulsion startup Arkadia Space announced a contract Feb. 11 to supply monopropellant thrusters to MaiaSpace, a French startup backed by ArianeGroup that is developing a reusable small launch vehicle.

Arkadia Space will supply 250-newton thrusters designed for the Reaction Control System of the MaiaSpace launcher.

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Space Force pushing forward with acquisition reforms (spacenews.com)
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Space Development Agency seeks industry input on integrating satellite network into ‘Iron Dome’ (spacenews.com)
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The Periodic Table according to astronomers (sh.itjust.works)
 
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First launch of Long March 8A sends second group of Guowang megaconstellation satellites into orbit (spacenews.com)
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NASA and SpaceX to swap Crew Dragon spacecraft to reduce Crew-10 delay (spacenews.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32651543

NASA announced Feb. 11 that it would use the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance for the upcoming Crew-10 mission to the ISS rather than a new Crew Dragon spacecraft as originally planned. Endurance, previously used for the Crew-3, -5 and -7 missions, had been slated to fly the Ax-4 private astronaut mission to the ISS for Axiom Space.

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ESA Moves Forward with Phase 2 of its LEO Cargo Return Initiative (europeanspaceflight.com)
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