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heise online English  Β·  2 weeks ago

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Months late: Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore back on earth

A few days on board the ISS turned into months for Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore due to problems with the Boeing Starline. Now they have returned.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Months-late-Suni-Williams-and-Barry-Wilmore-back-on-earth-10320510.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#ISS#NASA#Raumfahrt#SpaceX#Wissen #news

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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  2 weeks ago

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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  2 weeks ago

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"NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashes Down Off Coast of Florida" by #NASA Space Station blog - Safe splashdown confirmed off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. Boats with NASA & SpaceX crews will recover it from the water. https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/03/18/nasas-spacex-crew-9-splashes-down-off-coast-of-florida/#Crew9#SpaceX#CrewDragon#NewSpace
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  4 months ago

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"NASA Adjusts Crew-10 Launch Date" by NASA (mirror bot @nasa ) - 1 month delay in #Crew10 launch due to commissioning work on a new #SpaceX#CrewDragon spacecraft from the Hawthorne factory. So #Crew9 return (including 2 #Starliner test pilots who launched in June) is delayed from February to March so outgoing Crew-9 can update incoming Crew-10. https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2024/12/17/nasa-adjusts-crew-10-launch-date/#NASA#CommercialCrew
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  2 months ago

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"NASA & SpaceX Update Crew-10 Launch, Crew-9 Return Dates" by NASA Commercial Crew - #NASA changed plans for #Crew10 launch to ISS to use #SpaceX#CrewDragon Endurance rather than a brand new still-unnamed spacecraft which requires more time for commissioning. Now targeting launch March 10, weeks earlier than previous plan. #Crew9 including the two Boeing #Starliner test pilots will return within a week after 10's arrival at ISS. https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2025/02/11/nasa-spacex-update-crew-10-launch-crew-9-return-dates/ #space
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  2 weeks ago

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"NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9: Crew Preparing for Splashdown" by #NASA Space Station blog - #SpaceX#CrewDragon "Freedom" with #Crew9 astronauts and #Starliner test pilots is de-orbiting for return to Earth. Splashdown is planned 1757 Eastern Time off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/2025/03/18/nasas-spacex-crew-9-crew-preparing-for-splashdown/#NewSpace
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heise online English  Β·  last month

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SpaceX: Starship self-destructed after fire on board

The seventh flight of the Starship ended with an explosion. The US space company SpaceX has announced the reason.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/SpaceX-Starship-self-destructed-after-fire-on-board-10294954.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Raumfahrt#SpaceX #news

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Spaceflight πŸš€  Β·  2 months ago

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Prof Logsdon* expects big changes under #Trump, Mr #Musk and Mr #Isaacman: scrapping programmes, closing NASA centres and more contracting out to #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin and other private sector firms. "There is a delicate balance between the interests of #NASA, #Congress and the #WhiteHouse."

Mr Isaacman has called the #SLS "outrageously expensive" and said that the major aerospace contractors are "incentivised to be economically #inefficient". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn93797z2dpo

* https://www.planetary.org/profiles/jon-logsdon

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Spaceflight πŸš€  Β·  2 months ago

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#SpaceX has developed two heavy lift rockets in the last decade, and #BlueOrigin just launched #NewGlenn. Each of these rockets is at least partially reusable ♻️ and flies at less than one-tenth πŸ’΅ the cost of the #SLS rocket πŸ’° https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/boeing-has-informed-its-employees-that-nasa-may-cancel-sls-contracts

#Boeing#NASA

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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  3 months ago
Musing out loud... since Starship 33 didn't finish its climb to orbit, or actually a very high suborbital trajectory since they didn't plan a burn to circularize the orbit, how far short did the debris come down. Southern Africa was underneath the intended path. It could have been one or more of falling short into the Atlantic Ocean, falling on Africa or going past Africa to the Indian Ocean. #SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  3 months ago

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"Watch SpaceX Starship explode over Atlantic Ocean on Flight Test 7" by @Spacecom - It didn't take long to get an answer where Starship 33 debris came down. People posted videos from the Turks and Caicos Islands. So it made it past Florida to the Atlantic. Dramatic explosion and debris fall captured on several of them. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/watch-spacex-starship-explode-over-atlantic-ocean-on-flight-test-7-videos#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  3 months ago

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"Videos on social media show Starship debris streaming across the sky" video by NBC News - NBC anchor and expert where being correctly cautious about concluding the video was of Starship. But they also pointed out the video of debris fall matched the time Starship telemetry was lost on ascent and where it should have been at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0vRGkPsbYc#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  3 months ago

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"SpaceX Starship explosion likely caused by propellant leak, Elon Musk says" by @Spacecom - Fuel and oxidizer both leaking into a confined area would only need a flame or spark to explode. And "to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity" means it exploded. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-starship-explosion-likely-caused-by-propellant-leak-elon-musk-says#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  3 months ago

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Musing out loud... since Starship 33 didn't finish its climb to orbit, or actually a very high suborbital trajectory since they didn't plan a burn to circularize the orbit, how far short did the debris come down. Southern Africa was underneath the intended path. It could have been one or more of falling short into the Atlantic Ocean, falling on Africa or going past Africa to the Indian Ocean. #SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  3 months ago
"SpaceX loses Starship mid-flight, but catches booster again after launch" by CNBC / @michaelsheetz - Second successful catch of the enormous 1st stage booster by the tower arms, which many doubted would work until the first catch. 2nd stage lost contact during boost, presumably breaking up, and did not reach orbit. The lost 2nd stage was a new Block 2 model flying for the first time. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/spacex-launch-starship-flight-seven-starlink-satellite-test.html#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace #business
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) πŸš€πŸ›°οΈ  Β·  3 months ago

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"SpaceX loses spacecraft after catching rocket booster at the launch pad in latest Starship test" by @AssociatedPress / Marcia Dunn - More details on what SpaceX hoped to achieve and what happened on Starship test flight 7. https://apnews.com/article/spacex-elon-musk-starship-e165e81ed2350ce684c7ed8d9357d7ba#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace #business
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