Tag: Sends

SpaceX Sends Second Starfall Reentry Vehicle Into Orbit

SpaceNews reports that “SpaceX launched a rideshare mission Oct. 20 whose payload included the company’s second Starfall reentry vehicle.” A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:04 a.m. EDT, carrying the vehicle as part of the Bandwagon-5 mission. The launch followed a one-day postponement due to unfavorable weather conditions near the booster’s planned landing site.
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SpaceX launches ‘Starfall’ return capsule and 31 more payloads (Launch occurs at the 0:14 mark).
VideoFromSpace; YouTube
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Soyuz Carries U.S. Astronaut and Two Cosmonauts to Space Station

Reuters reports, “Russia sent two cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station on Tuesday from Kazakhstan, resuming crewed flights from a recently repaired launchpad with a rare joint ‌attendance by the heads of NASA and Russia’s space agency.”
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NASA Sends 4 CubeSats into LEO

ExecutiveBiz reports that NASA “has deployed a set of four small satellites to low Earth orbit aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle to test autonomous spacecraft swarm technologies in space.” The 6U-sized CubeSats “lifted off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand and will demonstrate their ability to conduct maneuver planning, communications networking, relative navigation and autonomous positioning as a group with minimal supervision from ground mission controllers, NASA said Monday.” Funded by NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology, the six-month Starling mission “is expected to pave the way toward advancing autonomous robotic swarms for future space and lunar science and exploration missions.”
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