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☆ NASA’s Asteroid-Deflection Mission Spotlights Planetary Defense Effort
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Can the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shift the orbit of an asteroid by smashing into it with a fast-moving spacecraft? The agency might find out Monday, when a bus-size craft traveling at a speed in excess of 14,000 miles an hour tries to hit a 525-foot-wide space rock. The anticipated collision between the uncrewed spacecraft and the asteroid, named Dimorphos, marks the climactic moment of NASA’s $325 million Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission. DART is the world’s first mission to test a technology that one day might protect Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact.

☆ NASA Cancels Artemis Moon Launch Attempt as Storm Threatens Florida
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NASA could attempt another launch for the Artemis mission relatively soon should weather conditions improve. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it called off a plan to try to blast off its moon rocket Tuesday as an intensifying tropical storm moves toward Florida. Officials at NASA had previously left open the possibility that the agency would be able to attempt the launch Tuesday despite the threat of the storm.

☆ NASA Hits Another Fueling Leak in Artemis Moon Rocket Test
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NASA began testing repairs and new procedures for fueling its moon rocket, but ran into a hydrogen leak not long after the practice run began, the agency said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s test on Wednesday aims to demonstrate that engineers can transfer vast amounts of super-cold propellants—liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen—into the rocket’s tanks. The planned hourslong test is a precursor to the agency attempting another launch, following two scrubbed attempts over the past month.

☆ Moon-Rocket Test Moves NASA Closer to Next Artemis Launch Attempt
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NASA said it completed a practice run of fueling the agency’s moon rocket despite encountering hydrogen leaks, bringing the agency a step closer to again trying to launch the massive vehicle. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s test on Wednesday aimed to demonstrate that engineers can transfer vast amounts of super-cold propellants—liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen—into the rocket’s tanks. The hourslong test was a precursor to the agency attempting another launch, after two scrubbed flights over the past month.

☆ NASA Navigates Another Fuel Leak in Artemis Moon-Rocket Test
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NASA ran into another hydrogen leak while fueling the agency’s moon rocket during a practice run but was able to troubleshoot the problem, as the agency worked toward a new launch attempt. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s test on Wednesday aims to demonstrate that engineers can transfer vast amounts of super-cold propellants—liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen—into the rocket’s tanks. The planned hourslong test is a precursor to the agency attempting another launch, after two scrubbed flights over the past month.

☆ Saudi Arabia buys pair of SpaceX astronaut seats from Axiom
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Under the deal, two Saudi astronauts will ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to the space station for a roughly weeklong stay early next year, the sources said. Officials with the Saudi Space Commission, Riyadh's space agency founded in 2018, were not immediately available to comment. The Saudi astronauts will join two previously announced Americans, retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and race car driver and investor John Shoffner, the sources said. For Axiom and other space companies, cutting deals with foreign governments is seen as vital to sustaining a business centered on putting people in space. Axiom's astronaut flight business is crucial experience for the company's broader goals of deploying its own private space station by mid-decade.

☆ Exclusive: Saudi Arabia buys pair of SpaceX astronaut seats from Axiom -sources
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Under the deal, two Saudi astronauts will ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to the space station for a roughly weeklong stay early next year, the sources said. Officials with the Saudi Space Commission, Riyadh's space agency founded in 2018, were not immediately available to comment. The Saudi astronauts will join two previously announced Americans, retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and race car driver and investor John Shoffner, the sources said. Axiom launched its first private mission to the space station in April, sending a four-man crew to the space station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that included a Canadian investor and an Israeli businessman. Axiom's astronaut flight business is crucial experience for the company's broader goals of deploying its own private space station by mid-decade.

☆ NASA's giant U.S. moon rocket emerges for debut launch
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-17 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 16 (Reuters) - NASA's gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long crawl to its launchpad Tuesday night ahead of the behemoth's debut test flight this month. The 322-foot-tall (98-meter) rocket is scheduled to embark on its first mission to space - without any humans - on Aug. 29. [1/6] NASA’s next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with its Orion crew capsule perched on top, leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on a slow-motion journey to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 16, 2022. Sitting atop the rocket is NASA's Orion astronaut capsule, built by Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N). For the Aug. 29 mission, called Artemis 1, the Orion capsule will launch atop the Space Launch System without any humans and orbit the moon before returning to Earth for an ocean splashdown 42 days later.

☆ NASA’s Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-19 | by ( Corey S. Powell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

On April 19, 2021, a toaster oven-size helicopter named Ingenuity spun its rotors and rose 10 feet above the surface of Mars, becoming the first craft to perform a powered flight on a world beyond Earth. It won’t be the last. Three more extraterrestrial fliers are already under development at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other space agencies, and many more uncrewed copters, hoppers and floating machines are on drawing boards. These aerial robots could survey the clouds of Venus, search for life on Saturn’s moon Titan and scout out resources for Mars astronauts who might arrive in the late 2030s.

☆ Mars Insight Mission Ended by NASA After Lander Falls Silent
▼ + stars: | 2018-11-26 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A NASA illustration of the InSight lander after it deployed its instruments on the Martian surface. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday that its InSight Mars mission had ended after recent attempts by mission controllers to contact the lander had failed. The agency said the lander had fallen silent, likely because its batteries had run out of energy as a result of the accumulation of dust on its solar panels. The robotic lander arrived on the Martian surface on Nov. 26, 2018, after a more than a six-month journey through space. Since then, InSight—short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport—had been studying the planet’s interior, weather and seismic activity.

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