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    Progress Cargo Craft Docks to Station Resupplying Expedition 73

    The Progress 92 cargo craft approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Poisk module.

    The unpiloted Progress 92 spacecraft arrived at the space-facing port of the orbiting laboratory’s Poisk module at 5:25 p.m. EDT, Saturday, July 5. The spacecraft launched at 3:32 p.m. EDT on July 3 (12:32 a.m. Baikonur time, July 4) on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

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    Progress Cargo Craft Counting Down to Launch on NASA+

    The Progress 91 cargo craft lifts off on time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

    The unpiloted Progress 92 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 3:32 p.m. EDT (12:32 a.m. Baikonur time, Friday, July 4) on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Roscosmos spacecraft will liftoff carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew aboard the International Space Station.

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    Spacecraft Bus Commissioning Complete for NASA’s Arcstone

    An artist's rendering of NASA's Arcstone instrument on-orbit gathering measurements of lunar reflectance.

    Commissioning of the bus, or the main structure of the satellite, has now been completed for NASA’s Arcstone lunar calibration instrument. Arcstone will now continue to go through commissioning to test its components and hardware and is expected to begin gathering science measurements approximately three weeks after launch – known as first light.  As a […]

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    NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-11 Mission to Space Station

    The four crew members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station train inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in Hawthorne, California. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.

    NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Thursday, July 10, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. First is an overview news conference at 12 p.m. EDT with mission leadership discussing final launch and mission preparations on the agency’s YouTube channel. […]

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    NASA Discovers Interstellar Comet Moving Through Solar System

    On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the interstellar comet has been officially named 3I/ATLAS. It is currently located about 420 million miles (670 million kilometers) […]

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    NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

    Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. The images below were taken by the spacecraft’s L’LORRI imager a few minutes before its closest approach. This successful dress rehearsal gives the team high confidence that both the spacecraft and the team are […]

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