Capella to use SpaceX for two Acadia satellite launches (spacenews.com)
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A little more than three months ago the Indian space agency, ISRO, achieved a major success by putting its Vikram lander safely down on the surface of the Moon. In doing so India became the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, and this further ignited the country’s interest in space exploration....
Source: Harry Stranger
Nice overview of the history of Hubble, the recent gyroscope issues, and the possibility of a repair and reboost mission (Polaris 2) to extend the life and utility of the telescope.
Source: Tory Bruno himself....
NASA announced Nov. 29 that Hubble was in a safe mode because of a problem with one of its three operational gyroscopes. That gyro first triggered a safe mode Nov. 19 when it provided what NASA described as faulty readings. Spacecraft controllers restored operations of Hubble, only to see problems again Nov. 21 and 23....
A nice overview of various recent and upcoming spaceflight topics:...
Progress MS-25 launch:...
The week begins with Roscosmos planning to launch the Progress MS-25 resupply capsule on a Soyuz 2.1a up to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Then, a Falcon 9 launch out of Vandenburg Space Force Base (VSFB) will take multiple different payloads to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) in one launch and also has a return-to-launch...
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Technically spaceflight, as long as you use the “50 mile” definition and not the “100 km” definition :)
Eric Berger’s Rocket Report. Nice short summaries of a number of topics:...
HELSINKI — China sent an undisclosed number of satellites into orbit Thursday to test satellite internet technologies....