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Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 3 days ago

Curie circularization burn and payload deployment confirmed!

Simultaneous launches today? in c/spaceflightmemes
[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 3 days ago

That would have been quite an event! As it turns out, they ended up launching about four minutes apart, and on opposite sides of the globe :)

Starlink 10-12 launch bulletin (first booster landing in the Bahamas) in c/spacex
[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Stage 1 landing confirmed! New camera angle from the Bahamas!

Edit: M-vac shutdown.

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 3 days ago

SECO and kickstage separation confirmed. Circularization Curie engine burn scheduled for T+50 minutes.

Starlink 10-12 launch bulletin (first booster landing in the Bahamas) in c/spacex
[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 3 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 3 days ago

Battery hot-swap confirmed.

Starlink 10-12 launch bulletin (first booster landing in the Bahamas) in c/spacex
[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 3 days ago

Liftoff!

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 3 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 3 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 3 days ago

Liftoff!

Rocket Lab "Fasten Your Space Belts" launch thread in c/[email protected]
[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

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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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NASA and SpaceX to swap Crew Dragon spacecraft to reduce Crew-10 delay (spacenews.com)
 

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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Redwire lands new satellite contract for Space Force in-orbit refueling experiment (spacenews.com)
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Space security at crossroads: Report urges U.S.-China dialogue (spacenews.com)
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