President of @SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell on CNBC this morning on Starship:
• Starship Flight 13 is about a month away.
• Expect to see hopefully see Starship flights on a monthly basis after that.
• SpaceX hopes to attempt orbital injection on Flight 14.
• It’s realistic to have Starship reaching orbit by the end of 2026.
NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult. We will work with our partners to support a thorough investigation of this anomaly, assess near-term mission impacts, and get back to launching rockets.
We will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available.
The #AxEMU provides mobility never seen before. Building on the legacy of the Apollo-era spacesuits, the AxEMU is built to equip the Artemis III astronauts with better flexibility and increased safety, allowing further discovery on the lunar surface and exploration of the Moon’s south pole for the first time. Learn more about how the #AxEMU is the spacesuit of the future: https://t.co/86tNqyvqHa.
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We’ve successfully generated plasma aboard ForgeStar®-1 🛰️
Proving the extreme conditions needed for gas-phase crystal growth can be created & controlled on an autonomous platform in LEO.
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NEWS: Today, Trump signed an executive order committing the United States to return to the Moon by 2028, build a lunar outpost by 2030 and prepare for the journey to Mars.
Everything in the Executive Order:
• Return Americans to the Moon by 2028
• Begin building a permanent lunar outpost by 2030
• Make U.S. space superiority a core national priority
• Expand commercial launch, lower costs, increase cadence
• Develop next-gen space-based missile defense by 2028
• Detect and counter threats in LEO and cislunar space
• Rapidly modernize national security space architecture
• Deepen allied cooperation in space security
• Grow the U.S. commercial space economy
• Target $50B+ in new space investment by 2028
• Support a commercial successor to the ISS by 2030
• Enable space nuclear power for lunar and orbital missions
• Improve space weather forecasting
• Lead on space traffic management & debris mitigation
@Erdayastronaut Preliminary data suggests that a nitrogen COPV in the payload bay failed below its proof pressure.
If further investigation confirms that this is what happened, it is the first time ever for this design.
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