SPACE reports that teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) are preparing for the March 17 rollout of the SLS-Orion rocket and spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission. Artemis 1 “will send an Orion spacecraft around the moon, to make sure both SLS and Orion are ready for crewed missions.”
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Commercial Spaceflight Revolutionizing Space Travel
CNET News reports on commercial spaceflight and how it is bringing forth a new era of commercial space travel. Endeavors such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and SpaceX “signal the space industry’s shift from the government to the private sector.”
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Another Blue Origin Launch Scheduled for Next Week
CNN reports that Pete Davidson “will become the latest celebrity to fly to space with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, in a brief, suborbital flight slated for later this month.” Davidson and five other customers will launch into space on a New Shepard rocket. The launch “is slated for March 23 at 8:30 am CT.”
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SpaceX Launches New Round of Starlink Satellites from Florida
Florida Today reports that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket “launched from Florida Thursday morning, sending the company’s newest batch of Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit and completing the company’s first launch of March.” SpaceX’s ninth Falcon 9 launch “in as many weeks blasted off at 9:25 a.m. EST from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center with 47 Starlink internet satellites packed into the nosecone of the reused, 230-foot rocket.” Coupled with ULA’s launch “of its Atlas V rocket earlier in the week, Thursday morning’s launch marks the tenth successful mission from Florida’s Space Coast this year.”
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