Submitted by ionscifi on September 5, 2022 - 07:14
After a recurrence of one of the two problems which saw the first Artemis I launch scrubbed - a hydrodgen leak on an umilical quick disconnect - the second was also scrubbed.
NASA made three attempts to fix the problem during launch but ultimately called it off and ruled out any further launch attempts in early September.
Submitted by ionscifi on September 2, 2022 - 21:03
NASA have scheduled their second launch attempt for the Artemis I rocket with a two hour launch window starting at 2:17 p.m. EDT on September 3, which locally will be 4:17 a.m. on September 4.
It's a bird... it's a Plane... it's SpaceX debris plummeting towards our sheep paddock.
Ok, we took a slight artistic liberty there. The farmer didn't see it fall. It was believed to have fallen on July 9 and he found it several weeks later.
Last week South Korea launched their first fully independently engineered and built rocket called Nuri, a major milestone for their nation.
This morning at 12:00 AM ACST, The Northern Territory's Arnhem Space Centre conducted Australia's first commercial space launch with a NASA built rocket.
An opinion piece has been published on Bloomberg about the new reality of privatised space in light of the situation with American astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station and the Russian space agency's "joke" that they might leave him there.
He correctly describes the situation. Space is now and will increasingly be commercial. But he slips in an extremely dubious assertion.
It's not the same as actually going of course but NASA are offering to take your name on a flash drive into space aboard Artemis I's uncrewed Orion test flight and fly it around the moon.
You only need to provide your name and set a pin code.
Plans for two commercial space stations have been unveiled recently, both expected to be in operation this decade.
Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin announced that they are developing the first free-flying commercial space station called Starlab which should begin operation by 2027.
Rocket Lab - with one of their two launch sites in neighbouring New Zealand - plans to have a helicopter track and follow a descending re-usable rocket used to launch satellites.
