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IOD-1 GEMS, KRAKsat, Swiatowid, EntrySat, and three VCC satellites were deployed into orbit on 3 July 2019. NepaliSat-1 is the first Nepalese satellite and Raavana 1 is the first Sri Lankan satellite. On the departure of Cygnus NG-11 from the ISS, SlingShot Deployer—carrying Quantum Radar, NARSSCube-2, RFTSat, and ORCA—was placed on its ...
The Brownsville Economic Development Council (BEDC) was building a space tracking facility in Boca Chica Village on a 2.3-acre (9,300 m 2) site adjacent to the SpaceX launch control center. The STARGATE tracking facility is a joint project of the BEDC, SpaceX, and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (formerly the University of Texas at ...
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1] [2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
2029. NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus. [1] Small Satellites Mission Service (SSMS) #20 rideshare mission. Dual-launch of a Chinese Jupiter orbiter and Uranus flyby spacecraft. Multi-Launch Service (MLS) #4 rideshare mission. First of two satellites for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission.
2015 in spaceflight. In 2015, the maiden spaceflights of the Chinese Long March 6 and Long March 11 launch vehicles took place. A total of 87 orbital launches were attempted in 2015, of which 82 were successful, one was partially successful and four were failures. The year also saw seven EVAs by ISS astronauts.
IFT-2 →. SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 1 ( IFT-1) was the first integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on April 20, 2023. [3] The prototype vehicle was destroyed less than four minutes after lifting off from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. [4]
On 5 November 2019, data from Voyager 2 indicated that it also had entered interstellar space. On 4 November 2019, scientists reported that, on 5 November 2018, the Voyager 2 probe had officially reached the interstellar medium (ISM), a region of outer space beyond the influence of the solar wind, as did Voyager 1 in 2012.
BN4 was fully stacked on August 1, with a full complement of 29 engines installed on August 2, 2021. Grid fins were added to support atmospheric reentry testing. SN20 was stacked on top of Booster 4 on August 6, 2021 for a fitting test, making it the tallest rocket ever fully integrated, until September 5, 2023, when S25 was stacked onto B9 ...