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  • Boeing #Starliner Spacecraft Deorbit Burn and Landing (Official NASA Broadcast)

    Boeing #Starliner Spacecraft Deorbit Burn and Landing (Official NASA Broadcast)

    Watch the landing of Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner, targeted at 6:49 p.m. EDT (22:49 UTC) at White Sands Space Harbor at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This return to Earth will wrap up the six-day Orbital Flight Test-2, which will provide valuable data toward NASA certifying Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular flights with astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

    Boeing’s Starliner launched to the space station on Thursday, May 19 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, and docked to the orbiting laboratory on Friday, May 20. The crew opened Starliner’s hatch on Saturday, May 21. The spacecraft will return home with more than 600 pounds of cargo, including Nitrogen Oxygen Recharge System reusable tanks that provide breathable air to station crew members. The tanks will be refurbished on Earth and sent back to station on a future flight.

    Image Credit: ESA/NASA

  • ESA’s active debris removal mission: e.Deorbit

    ESA’s active debris removal mission: e.Deorbit

    ESA’s Clean Space initiative is studying an active debris removal mission called e.Deorbit, which will target an ESA-owned derelict satellite in low orbit, capture it, then safely burn it up in a controlled atmospheric reentry. e.Deorbit will be the world’s first active debris removal mission, and will provide an opportunity for European industries to showcase their technological capabilities to a global audience.