An update on our Artemis I Moon mission, the right moves for a small satellite mission, and a bright idea to search for water ice on the Moon … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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Experts discuss early results of the NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its target asteroid, Dimorphos.
On Monday, Sept. 26, DART successfully impacted its asteroid target in the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration. As a part of NASA’s overall planetary defense strategy, DART’s impact with the asteroid Dimorphos will help to determine whether asteroid deflection using a kinetic impactor spacecraft is a viable mitigation technique for protecting the planet from an Earth-bound asteroid or comet, if one were discovered. Johns Hopkins APL manages the DART mission for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office as a project of the agency’s Planetary Missions Program Office. Neither DART’s target asteroid, Dimorphos, nor its larger asteroid parent, Didymos, poses a hazard to Earth.
Participants include:
• NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
• Italian Space Agency President Giorgio Saccoccia
DART update panel:
• Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Tom Statler, DART program scientist at NASA Headquarters
• Nancy Chabot, DART coordination lead at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland
More on DART: https://nasa.gov/dart
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An update on our Artemis I Moon mission, a first for our James Webb Space Telescope, and a new target launch date for the next commercial crew mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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An update on our Artemis I mission, test firing an Artemis rocket engine, and a resupply mission delivers to the space station … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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0:00 Introduction
0:14 Update on Preparations for Artemis I Moon Mission
0:59 Artemis Rocket Engine Test Series Continues
1:21 Commercial Mission Delivers Cargo to Space Station
1:58 The Next GOES Series Earth-Observing Satellite
2:37 60th Anniversary of Glenn’s Historic Flight on Friendship 7
Experts from the James Webb Space Telescope team discuss the successful completion of the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations.
On Sat., Jan. 8, Mission Operations Center ground control at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore began deploying the second side panel of the primary mirror at 8:53 a.m. EST. Once it extended and latched into position at 1:17 p.m. EST, the team declared all major deployments completed.
More: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-telescope-reaches-major-milestone-as-mirror-unfolds
Follow the mission: https://jwst.nasa.gov/whereiswebb
Crew-1 is home! Four astronauts are back on Earth after SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida Sun., May 2 at 2:56 a.m. EDT (6:56 UTC). This was the first night splashdown of a U.S. crewed spacecraft since Apollo 8’s predawn return in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 27, 1968.
Tune in at 5 a.m. EDT (9:00 UTC) for a return to Earth news update with experts from NASA, SpaceX, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from our Johnson Space Center in Houston.Participants are:
Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy Space Center
Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, Johnson
Holly Ridings, chief flight director, Johnson
Hans Koenigsmann, senior advisor, Flight Reliability, SpaceX
Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate
At 5:49 a.m. EDT, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft with four astronauts aboard is safely in orbit, on the way to the International Space Station for docking on Saturday, April 24.
Tune in at 7:30 a.m. EDT for a post launch news update. Participants are:
• Steve Jurczyk, acting NASA administrator
• Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
• Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
• Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate
• Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA
• A SpaceX representative
Watch for a live news update on the upcoming launch of the Crew Dragon, with four astronauts aboard, from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, currently scheduled for liftoff no earlier than April 20, will be the second crew rotation flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft. Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will travel to the International Space Station for a mission of about six months.
Speaking at today’s briefing are:
– Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations, NASA Headquarters
– Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
– Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, Johnson
– Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX
– Hiroshi Sasaki, JAXA vice president and director general, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate
– David Parker, director, Human and Robotic Exploration, ESA
Live from our Johnson Space Center in Houston, experts discuss upcoming spacewalks on Feb. 28, and March 5. NASA flight engineers Kate Rubins and Victor Glover, as well as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, will conduct the upcoming spacewalks. The spacewalkers, working in pairs, will prepare the station for upcoming solar array upgrades and perform additional maintenance tasks.
News conference participants include:
Kenny Todd, deputy manager, International Space Station Program
Marcos Flores, Feb. 28 spacewalk flight director
Chris Edelen, March 5 spacewalk flight director
Art Thomason, spacewalk officer
Now that our Perseverance Mars Rover successfully landed on the Red Planet after a nearly seven-month journey, mission experts will talk about the robotic scientist’s touchdown in the most challenging terrain on Mars ever targeted.
Perseverance, which launched July 30, 2020, will search for signs of ancient microbial life, collect carefully selected rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) samples for future return to Earth, characterize Mars’ geology and climate, and pave the way for human exploration beyond the Moon.
Tune in to watch a live broadcast from the Von Karman Auditorium at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
An update on the recent Green Run hot fire test, preflight preparations continue with the Orion spacecraft, and a new view of small solar structures … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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What progress have we made on returning to the Moon to build a sustainable human presence there? Tune in starting at 12:30pm ET, Wed., Dec. 9 for the eighth meeting of the National Space Council, including a news update from Vice President Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on our Artemis program to send the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024. The National Space Council advises the president on America’s space policy and strategy and reviews the nation’s long-range goals for space activities.
The world’s latest Earth-observing satellite, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, is set for launch on Nov. 21 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Tune in live on Fri., Nov, 20 at 3:30 p.m EST (8:30 p.m. UTC) to learn about the science of this U.S-European mission, which will closely monitor sea level and provide atmospheric data to support weather forecasting and climate models. Hear from experts including project scientists and oceanographers at NASA, the European Space Agency, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington.
Join NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and officials from NASA, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and SpaceX for a live news conference starting at 9:30 p.m. EST with an update on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission. After launching at 7:27 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the SpaceX Crew Dragon ‘Resilience’ spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Soichi Noguchi of JAXA is in orbit and on the way to the International Space Station.
A touch of history for our first asteroid sample return mission, a safe return from the International Space Station, and a big move in preparation for Artemis I … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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Tune in as experts from NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) discuss the upcoming launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, a satellite that will collect the most accurate data yet on global sea levels. The satellite is targeted for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 10 at 2:31 p.m. EST, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is a historic U.S.-European partnership that will continue the legacy of previous missions and extend our records of sea level into the fourth decade, collecting accurate measurements of sea surface height down to the centimeter for 90% of the world’s oceans.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and leadership from NASA and SpaceX discuss the upcoming SpaceX Crew-1 mission, which will be the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station. Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are targeted to launch on Oct. 31 at 2:40 a.m. EDT aboard the Crew Dragon from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
An update to plans for Artemis, the next space station crew trains for its mission, and collaboration in the interest of space … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
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Hear from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and NASA and SpaceX officials about the upcoming departure of the SpaceX Dragon “Endeavour” from the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour, with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, is currently targeted to undock from the space station on Saturday, Aug. 1 and splash down on Sunday, Aug. 2. This will be the first return of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft carrying astronauts from the space station.
ExoMars 2020 has passed a number of milestones. The European carrier module was delivered in March. The European rover, which contains nine instruments, has been assembled by Airbus UK and is under environmental testing in Toulouse. It should be integrated with the spacecraft by the end of the year. The spacecraft is now in the Thales Alenia Space test facilities in Cannes to start the environmental and performance verification test campaign that will last until February 2020.
However, there remain some important challenges ahead for the parachute system of the descent module. Recent balloon high-altitude drop tests were unsuccessful. As a result, the next and final two drop tests, scheduled between January and March 2020, must be fully successful otherwise the mission cannot launch in 2020.
The joint ESA and Russian mission consists of four elements: a carrier module to propel the spacecraft to Mars, a descent module, a surface science platform and the Rosalind Franklin rover, which will use its drill up to depths of two meters to search for signs of life.
More information on ExoMars: http://www.esa.int/exomars
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Things are shaping up at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in preparation for Ariane 6. Take a tour of the launch complex and its various facilities.
Recent tests have used mock-ups of the P120C boosters to trial how they will be transported. See them on the launch pad, and get a sense of scale for Ariane 6.
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The Rosetta spacecraft is still orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko while it now approaches the Sun. Six months ago Rosetta made history by delivering its Philae lander onto a comet’s surface – something no other space mission has done before.
This video covers the mission’s highlights so far: from its launch in 2004; its journey across the solar system and waking up after deep space hibernation ten years later, its arrival at the selection of a landing site and Philae’s unexpected multiple landings on the comet. It also reviews what we have learnt about the comet to this point.
Credit: ESA, with footage by DLR, licenced under CC-BY 3.0 DE
NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s — all on the agency’s human Path to Mars. Agency officials announced on Thursday recent progress to identify candidate asteroids for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), increase public participation in the search for asteroids, and advance the mission’s design.
NASA plans to launch the ARM robotic spacecraft in 2019 and will make a final choice of the asteroid for the mission about a year before the spacecraft launches. NASA is working on two concepts for the mission: the first is to fully capture a very small asteroid in open space, and the second is to collect a boulder-sized sample off of a much larger asteroid. The agency will choose between these two concepts in late 2014 and further refine the mission’s design.
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope made recent observations of an asteroid, designated 2011 MD, which bears the characteristics of a good candidate for the full capture concept. While NASA will continue to look for other candidate asteroids during the next few years as the mission develops, astronomers are making progress to find suitable candidate asteroids for humanity’s next destination into the solar system.
With a more than ninety percent probability that Comet ISON broke apart from a major heating event on its approach to the sun Thanksgiving Day, the search is on for what’s left of it. NASA will use a variety of space and Earth based telescopes to monitor the comet over the next several weeks, before the fate of ISON can be confirmed. Also, Orion’s heat shield, Blue Origin milestone, Rover Challenge, Stone awarded medal and Celebrating Centaur.
The MAVEN spacecraft is the latest NASA probe designed to help piece together a complete picture of The Red Planet’s past. MAVEN’s piece of the puzzle — to understand what happened to Mars’ upper atmosphere. Following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — MAVEN is scheduled to reach Mars in September 2014. Also, Getting to deep space, A stunning new view of Saturn, Commercial success, Earth science satellite, Antarctica campaign, Tail wing technology and more!
NASA’s newest Mars rover has found evidence that a stream once ran vigorously across the area on the Red Planet where the rover is now driving. The finding is a different type of evidence for water on Mars than ever found before. Scientists are studying Curiosity’s images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels. The sizes and shapes of stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock are clues to the speed and distance of a long-ago stream’s flow.
Ed Waggoner, director of the Integrated Systems Research Program, and John Cavolowsky, director of the Airspace Systems Program, discuss what’s next for NASA in the field of aeronautics research during a briefing to the news media at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.