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Rocket Lab is now targeting January for the first launch from Wallops facility

Electron and HawkEye Teams inside Rocket Lab's clean room with Cluster 6 satellites incapsulated inside Electron's Fairings. Credits: HawkEye

Rocket Lab was targeting December 19 for the launch of HawkEye's Mission, but due to strong upper-level winds the launch has been delayed to January 2023

Francesco Sebastiano Moro
21/12/2022

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SPLASHDOWN, Orion capsule is back on Earth!

At 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the Moon. Orion will be recovered by NASA’s Landing and Recovery team, U.S. Navy and Department of Defense partners aboard the USS Portland. Nasa via flickr

Artemis I Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5-day mission to the Moon. NASA is now reviewing the data preparing for Artemis II.

Federico Coppola
12/12/2022

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Shenzhou-15, new occupants of the Tiangong space station are coming

Long march 2F with Shenzhou 15 crew onboard blasting a huge fire blast with extremely toxic propellant by all the five rockets engine. Credits- spacefacts

The Chinese space program is advancing fast! The shenzhou-15 mission is reaching Tiangong Space Station marking the first time that two CSS crews meet in space.

Federico Coppola
30/11/2022

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Orion capsule is just one step far from the Moon

This first high-resolution image, taken on the first day of the Artemis I mission, was captured by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft was 57,000 miles from Earth when the image was captured, and continues to distance itself from planet Earth as it approaches the Moon and distant retrograde orbit.

On Nov 15, Orion capsule left the Earth on board the SLS rocket. How is the mission going? Let's have a look together!

Federico Coppola
26/11/2022

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NASA awards Starship a second Artemis Landing

Artist’s rendering of SpaceX Starship Human Lander Design. Credits: SpaceX

NASA has awarded SpaceX's Starship a second Crewed Landing Demonstration Mission in 2027, as part of the Agency's Artemis IV.

Edoardo Giammarino
16/11/2022

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X-37B Space Plane completes its sixth Mission after 908 days

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) on the Shuttle Landing Facility. Credit: U.S. Space Force

The X-37B Space Plane successfully landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility on Nov. 12, 2022 completing a Mission of 908 days in Orbit.

Edoardo Giammarino
15/11/2022

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The effect of Nicole hug on Artemis I

Media remote cameras are setup outside Launch Pad 39B and aimed at NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard as preparations for launch continue, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Nov. 16 at 1:04 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

On pad 39B, the giant orange beast fought very well the force of the strong wind and the heavy rain. Now the whole world is waiting for the launch of the year.