This may be his best yet. It’s not easy to get such a photo and Pesquet notes he’s missed his share of shots. Not quite Tom Cruise, we know,but he’s heading up there sometime soon, too.
The glimmering waves of colorful lights aren’t just for those of us on the planet’s surface. The crew of the International Space Station has been getting an eyeful of knockout auroras. A fresh ISS image shows just how radical this crop of auroras has been. There’s a radiant ring of green with shreds of light emanating outward from the curvature of the planet. We were treated to the strongest auroras of the entire mission, over north America and Canada....
It’s another devastating year forwildfires in the West. The McKinney Fire in Northern California is now the largest of the year so far for the state. NOAA shared a time lapse of the firefrom Saturday as seen by the Earth-watching satellite. The agency said the fire has shown “extreme behavior” and “explosive growth.” Thousands of residents have been evacuated, andtwo deaths have been reported. Cal Fire has not yet announced a cause....
It recently conducted two launches within two months, for a total of six times to date. The original launch frequency was decided in 2022. Someenvironmentalistsbelieve the launches are affecting the local area. Each launch releases thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater into the environment. SpaceX has already faced more than $150,000 in fees for violations, according to anNPR report. That mission is scheduled for September 2026, following delays due to funding issues and technical challenges....
There are, however, a number of logistics challenges to launching the same booster on back-to-back days. The booster is the same one that launched the European Cosmo-SkyMed satellite on Jan. 31.
Falcon 9 boosters are meant to be recoverable. With the incident Wednesday morning, SpaceXbroke its streak of 267 successful booster landingssince 2021. It comes asweather has continued to delay the launchof theprivate Polaris Dawn space missionpast Aug. 30.
And did we mention the cupola is right next to Dragon’s toilet? It’s expected to roar back to Earth and land in the Atlantic on Saturday.
Musk has been talking about the promise of Hyperloop sincea white paper in 2013. Hyperloop testing at full-scale begins later this year. Neither SpaceX nor The Boring Company immediately responded to requests for comment.
A static fire test is the rough equivalent of revving a car engine in neutral. The booster is held to the ground while the engines are fired. On Monday, the prototype dubbed Booster 7 successfully fired its seven engines for about 10 seconds. SpaceX is still awaiting a launch license from the FAA for the first orbital test flight of Starship.
SpaceX didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Kosak’s essay. … Misogyny is rampant." She then quit the company.
SpaceX launched 26 missions in all of 2020, which was its most prolific year so far. The current regulatory system is broken. Transporter-2 is the second launch from the company’sSmallSat Rideshare Program, which is pretty much what it sounds like. you might rewatch the whole mission above.
The asteroid target is officially named 16 Psyche. Psyche isn’t a near-Earth asteroid. The experiment could lay the foundation for a future interplanetary broadband online grid when astronauts venture to Mars. The launch will be streamed by NASA and SpaceX.
It’s unclear how many employees were fired. SpaceX didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. He has rankled people with tweets critics have calledsexist and juvenile, amongother things. They specifically asked leadership to condemn the CEO’s Twitter behavior.Musk is also trying to buy Twitter. Muskdenied the allegations on Twitter, calling them “utterly untrue.” It’s unclear how many SpaceX employees signed the letter to executives.
