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Relativity Space ready for third attempt to launch 3D-printed rocket – Spaceflight Now

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of Relativity Space’s first 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket during a three-hour launch window opening at 10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 22 (0100 UTC Thursday, March 23). The Terran 1 will lift off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on its inaugural test flight. Follow us on Twitter. Relativity Space, a company with ambitions to develop a fully reusable rocket, will try again Wednesday night to launch its first 3D-printed, methane-fueled launcher from Cape Canaveral after two scrubbed countdowns earlier this month. The two-stage rocket, called the Terran 1, will lift off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The test flight has a three-hour launch window opening at 10 p.m. EDT Wednesday...

Axiom shows off Artemis moonsuits – Spaceflight Now

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Axiom shows off Artemis moonsuits – Spaceflight Now

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Axiom Space’s commercial spacesuit, designed for walking on the moon, is seen here under a black and orange cover. The suit’s outer layer will be mostly white during missions to the moon. Credit: Axiom Space Houston-based Axiom Space on Wednesday showed off the new spacesuit NASA’s Artemis astronauts will wear when they return to the moon, a more flexible, dust resistant, insulated and radiation-shielded suit to protect them in the harsh environment near the lunar south pole. “I think this suit is going to (be) a huge leap forward in terms of mobility and then just robustness to the lunar environment, the dust environment and things like that,” Russell Ralston, a spacesuit manager with Axiom Space, told CBS News. “This suit will be much...

SES to complete C-band clearing program with SpaceX dual-satellite launch – Spaceflight Now

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SES to complete C-band clearing program with SpaceX dual-satellite launch – Spaceflight Now

The SES 18 and 19 communications satellites inside a SpaceX payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SES, the international communications satellite operator, plans to send two more C-band television broadcasting spacecraft into orbit from Cape Canaveral Friday night atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission that will help clear spectrum for transition to 5G network services. The SES 18 and SES 19 satellites are stacked one on top of the other inside the payload fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket set for liftoff during a 38-minute launch window opening at 7:38 p.m. EDT (2338 GMT) Friday, a few minutes after sunset on Florida’s Space Coast. There is an 80% chance of good weather for launch of the Falcon 9 rocket Friday night. The main weather concern is with ground winds. He...

Rocket Lab deploys two Capella radar satellites after launch from Virginia – Spaceflight Now

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Rocket Lab deploys two Capella radar satellites after launch from Virginia – Spaceflight Now

Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher climbs away from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher delivered two all-weather radar Earth observation satellites into orbit for Capella Space Thursday night after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, successfully completing the company’s second flight from the U.S. spaceport. Running five days late due to bad weather and unfavorable upper level winds, the 59-foot-tall (18-meter) Electron rocket fired its nine kerosene-fueled Rutherford main engines and climbed away from Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, co-located with NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The Electron rocket took off at 6:38:59 p.m. EDT (2238:59 GMT). Produc...

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SpaceX counting down to sunset launch from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SES 18 and SES 19 geostationary communications satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised for launch from Cape Canaveral just after sunset Friday on mission to haul two SES television broadcasting satellites into orbit, continuing a multibillion-dollar program to clear C-band spectrum for terrestrial broadband. The TV satellites are stacked one on top of the other inside the payload fairing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket for liftoff during a 38-minute launch window opening at 7:38 p.m. EDT (2338 GMT). There is an 80% chance of good weather for launch from Cape Canaveral F...