SpaceX Starship Flyby | Polaris Program

SpaceX Starship Flyby | Polaris Program

SpaceX: "The world's most powerful launch vehicle is ready for flight. The third flight test aims to build on what we’ve learned from previous flights while attempting a number of ambitious objectives. Recursive improvement is essential as we work to build a fully reusable transportation system capable of carrying both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon, and ultimately travel to Mars and beyond."

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 121m/397ft

Diameter: 9m/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

Super Heavy is the first stage, or booster, of the Starship launch system. Powered by 33 Raptor engines using sub-cooled liquid methane (CH4) and liquid oxygen (LOX), Super Heavy is fully reusable and will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere to land back at the launch site.

Starship's Engines: Raptors

"The Raptor engine is a reusable methalox staged-combustion engine that powers the Starship launch system. Raptor engines began flight testing on the Starship prototype rockets in July 2019, becoming the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

The Polaris Program is a planned human spaceflight program organized by businessman and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman. Isaacman, who commanded the first all-civilian spaceflight— Inspiration4 —in September 2021, purchased flights from SpaceX in order to create the Polaris Program.

Image Credit: Polaris Program/John Kraus

Image Date: March 13, 2024

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SpaceX Starship: Ready for Third Flight Test

SpaceX Starship: Ready for Third Flight Test

SpaceX: "The world's most powerful launch vehicle is ready for flight. The third flight test aims to build on what we’ve learned from previous flights while attempting a number of ambitious objectives. Recursive improvement is essential as we work to build a fully reusable transportation system capable of carrying both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon, and ultimately travel to Mars and beyond."

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 121m/397ft

Diameter: 9m/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

Super Heavy is the first stage, or booster, of the Starship launch system. Powered by 33 Raptor engines using sub-cooled liquid methane (CH4) and liquid oxygen (LOX), Super Heavy is fully reusable and will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere to land back at the launch site.

Starship's Engines: Raptors

"The Raptor engine is a reusable methalox staged-combustion engine that powers the Starship launch system. Raptor engines began flight testing on the Starship prototype rockets in July 2019, becoming the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Release Date: March 12, 2024

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SpaceX Starship: Preparing for Third Flight Test

SpaceX Starship: Preparing for Third Flight Test

SpaceX: "The world's most powerful launch vehicle is ready for flight. The third flight test aims to build on what we’ve learned from previous flights while attempting a number of ambitious objectives. Recursive improvement is essential as we work to build a fully reusable transportation system capable of carrying both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon, and ultimately travel to Mars and beyond."

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 121m/397ft

Diameter: 9m/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

Super Heavy is the first stage, or booster, of the Starship launch system. Powered by 33 Raptor engines using sub-cooled liquid methane (CH4) and liquid oxygen (LOX), Super Heavy is fully reusable and will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere to land back at the launch site.

Starship's Engines: Raptors

"The Raptor engine is a reusable methalox staged-combustion engine that powers the Starship launch system. Raptor engines began flight testing on the Starship prototype rockets in July 2019, becoming the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 1 minute, 21 seconds

Release Date: March 13, 2024

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Supernova Remnant Puppis A in Vela | Víctor Blanco Telescope

Supernova Remnant Puppis A in Vela | Víctor Blanco Telescope

Puppis A (Pup A) is a supernova remnant about 100 light-years in diameter and roughly 6,500–7,000 light-years away. This object is one of the many cosmic treasures found within the new 1.3 gigapixel Vela Supernova Remnant image, captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the 4-meter US National Science Foundation's Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab. Although Pup A overlaps the Vela Supernova Remnant, it is four times more distant.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Release Date: March 12, 2024

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Filamentos estelares fantasmales capturados con la imagen de DECam más grande jamás publicada

Filamentos estelares fantasmales capturados con la imagen de DECam más grande jamás publicada

Cosmoview Episodio 77: Con la poderosa Cámara de Energía Oscura (DECam por sus siglas en inglés) de 570 megapíxeles fabricada por el Departamento de Energía de Estados Unidos, los astrónomos han construido una imagen gigante de 1,3 gigapíxeles que muestra la parte central del remanente de Supernova Vela, un cadáver cósmico de una gigantesca estrella que explotó como una supernova. DECam es uno de los instrumentos de imágenes de campo amplio más productivos del mundo y está montada en el Telescopio de 4 metros Víctor M. Blanco, de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos, situado en el Observatorio Interamericano Cerro Tololo en Chile, un Programa de NOIRLab de NSF.

Credit:

Imágenes y videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/National Science Foundation (NSF)/AURA, T. Matsopoulos, N. Bartmann

Procesamiento de imágenes: T.A. Rector (Universidad de Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) y D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Duration: 1 minute, 12 seconds

Release Date: March 10, 2024

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Vela Supernova Remnant: Interesting Objects | Víctor Blanco Telescope

Vela Supernova Remnant: Interesting Objects | Víctor Blanco Telescope

Examples of the most interesting objects found within the new 1.3 gigapixel Vela Supernova Remnant image, captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab. This colorful web of wispy gas filaments is the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding nebula of cosmic debris left over from a massive star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. 

The striking reds, yellows, and blues in this image were achieved through the use of three DECam filters that each collect a specific color of light. Separate images were taken in each filter and then stacked on top of each other to produce this high-resolution image that contains 1.3 gigapixels and showcases the intricate web-like filaments snaking throughout the expanding cloud of gas.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Release Date: March 12, 2024

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NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Crew-8, llegando: 08 de marzo de 2024

NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Crew-8, llegando: 08 de marzo de 2024

Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional.

Aprende más sobre la ciencia a bordo de la estación espacial:

https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/ciencia-en-la-estacion/

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 48 seconds

Release Date: March 13, 2024

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Recientemente: Una nueva tripulación viaja a la estación | NASA

Recientemente: Una nueva tripulación viaja a la estación | NASA

Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas This Week at NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA.

Aprende más sobre la ciencia a bordo de la estación espacial:

https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/ciencia-en-la-estacion/

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: March 12, 2024

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NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft: Five Panel Solar Array | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft: Five Panel Solar Array | Kennedy Space Center

When two of these five-panel solar arrays are installed and deployed on Europa Clipper—the agency’s largest spacecraft ever developed for a planetary mission—the spacecraft will span a total length of more than 100 feet and weigh 7,145 pounds without the inclusion of propellants. Europa Clipper is expected to launch to planet Jupiter in October 2024 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft needs to survive a 1.6 billion-mile, six-year journey to Jupiter—and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of Europa once it arrives at the Jupiter system in 2030.

Missions such as Europa Clipper contribute to the field of astrobiology, the interdisciplinary research on the variables and conditions of distant worlds that could harbor life as we know it. While Europa Clipper is not a life-detection mission, it will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Europa and investigate whether the icy moon, with its subsurface ocean, has the capability to support life. 

Understanding Europa’s habitability will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet.

In these images, technicians examine the first of two fully extended five-panel solar arrays built for NASA’s Europa Clipper suspended on a support system called a gravity offload fixture during inspection and cleaning as part of assembly, test, and launch operations inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Another name for the gravity offload fixture is the Transportable Large Envelope Deployment Facility (T-LEDF). 

Download Europa Clipper Ocean World poster:

go.nasa.gov/3Gsjzt5

Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, JPL leads the development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with APL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. APL designed the main spacecraft body in collaboration with JPL and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission.

NASA's Europa Clipper Mission website: 

https://europa.nasa.gov/

Image Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Image Date: March 6, 2024

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Using Infrared Light to Survey Our Milky Way Galaxy | NASA Goddard

Using Infrared Light to Survey Our Milky Way Galaxy | NASA Goddard

Observatories with smaller views of space have provided exquisite images of other galaxies, revealing complex structures. However, studying our own galaxy’s anatomy is surprisingly difficult. The plane of the Milky Way covers such a large area on the sky that studying it in detail can take a very long time. Astronomers also must peer through thick dust that obscures distant starlight. Infrared light can pass through that dust and is a key tool for learning about the far side of our galaxy.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Producer

Ashley Balzer (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Science Writer

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: March 12, 2024

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Gigapixel Image of Vela Supernova Remnant Captured | Víctor Blanco Telescope

Gigapixel Image of Vela Supernova Remnant Captured | Víctor Blanco Telescope

With the powerful, 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, astronomers have constructed a massive 1.3 gigapixel image showcasing the central part of the Vela Supernova Remnant. It is the cosmic corpse of a gigantic star that exploded as a supernova 11,000 years ago. DECam is one of the highest-performing wide-field imaging instruments in the world and is mounted on the US National Science Foundation's 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab.

Distance: about 800 light years

Credit:

Images and Videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, T. Matsopoulos, N. Bartmann

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Duration: 1 minute, 12 seconds

Release Date: March 10, 2024

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Zooming into The Vela Supernova Remnant | NOIRLab

Zooming into The Vela Supernova Remnant | NOIRLab

With the powerful, 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, astronomers have constructed a massive 1.3 gigapixel image showcasing the central part of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the cosmic corpse of a gigantic star that exploded as a supernova 11,000 years ago. DECam is one of the highest-performing wide-field imaging instruments in the world and is mounted on the 4-meter US National Science Foundation's Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab.

Distance: about 800 light years

Video Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: March 11, 2024

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Recovery Operations | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Recovery Operations | International Space Station

Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft

Support teams raise the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft aboard the recovery ship MEGAN shortly after it landed

Members of the medical teams watch as the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is moved aboard the recovery ship MEGAN shortly after it landed with NASA's Crew-7.

The helicopter that will carry NASA's Crew-7 is seen as it lands on the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. 

The crew of the “Endurance” SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for NASA's Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, was successfully recovered after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024, at 5:47am EDT.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Capture Date: March 12, 2024

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Panning over The Vela Supernova Remnant | Víctor Blanco Telescope

Panning over The Vela Supernova Remnant | Víctor Blanco Telescope

This colorful web of wispy gas filaments is the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding nebula of cosmic debris left over from a massive star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. This image was taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the US National Science Foundation's 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab. 

The striking reds, yellows, and blues in this image were achieved through the use of three DECam filters that each collect a specific color of light. Separate images were taken in each filter and then stacked on top of each other to produce this high-resolution image that contains 1.3 gigapixels and showcases the intricate web-like filaments snaking throughout the expanding cloud of gas.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA

Duration: 50 seconds

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Release Date: March 11, 2024

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Welcomed Home | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Welcomed Home | International Space Station

NASA astronaut & Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli

European Space Agency astronaut & Crew-7 pilot Andreas Mogensen

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa

Support teams onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN work around the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft after the hatch was opened shortly after it landed 

Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, left, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday, March 12, 2024.

Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed

The crew of the “Endurance” SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for NASA's Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, was successfully recovered after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024, at 5:47am EDT.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Capture Date: March 12, 2024

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Ghostly Stellar Tendrils of The Vela Supernova Remnant | Víctor Blanco Telescope

Ghostly Stellar Tendrils of The Vela Supernova Remnant | Víctor Blanco Telescope

This colorful web of wispy gas filaments is the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding nebula of cosmic debris left over from a massive star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. This image was taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the US National Science Foundation's 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab. 

The striking reds, yellows, and blues in this image were achieved through the use of three DECam filters that each collect a specific color of light. Separate images were taken in each filter and then stacked on top of each other to produce this high-resolution image that contains 1.3 gigapixels and showcases the intricate web-like filaments snaking throughout the expanding cloud of gas.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Release Date: March 12, 2024

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