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2023-07-30, 17:39 NASA Newsy

On June 25, 2023, teams completed installation of the heat shield for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA?s Kennedy ...

2023-07-30, 17:24 NASA Newsy

The Artemis II crew ? NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen ? visited Naval Base San Diego on July 19 ahead of the ...

2023-07-30, 16:40 NASA Newsy

The final crew member for NASA?s SpaceX Crew-7 mission, currently targeted to launch to the International Space Station in mid-August, has been announced.Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will ...

2023-07-30, 16:39 NASA Newsy

NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting no earlier than 1:30 a.m. EDT (5:30 p.m. NZST) Monday, May 22, for the launch of the agency?s TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and ...

2023-07-30, 16:37 NASA Newsy

NASA?s TROPICS CubeSats are expected to have deployed from the Rocket Lab?s Electron kick stage. The two CubeSats will reach low-Earth orbit to begin their mission.Each of the CubeSats was designed ...

2023-07-30, 16:36 NASA Newsy

Rocket Lab confirms Electron has successfully deployed the two TROPICS satellites to orbit.

2023-07-30, 16:25 NASA Newsy

Two TROPICS CubeSats successfully deployed from a Rocket Lab Electron rocket after launch.The team is working toward signal acquisition from the pair of TROPICS CubeSats. NASA will continue to assess ...

2023-07-30, 16:24 NASA Newsy

Team members successfully sent commands to the first CubeSat at 1:48 a.m. EDT, May 8. Subsequently, they established communications with the second CubeSat at 6:31 a.m. EDT. Read the NASA release ...

2023-07-30, 16:21 NASA Newsy

The Electron rocket has successfully completed the battery hot swap, switching power between batteries. The next milestone is second stage separation in about three minutes.

2023-07-30, 16:09 NASA Newsy

The second stage of Rocket Lab?s Electron has cut off and separated from the payload kick stage. Soon, the kick stage engine will ignite and burn for about three minutes before it cuts off.