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    NASA’s S-MODE Mission: “Sea-ing” through Rainbow-Colored Glasses

    By Sarah Lang, Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. // Aboard the Bold Horizon // If you asked a random person about the color of the ocean, they would probably tell you that it’s some shade of blue or green. But perhaps that shade of blue looks slightly different …

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    Artemis I – Flight Day Three: Orion Conducts First Spacecraft Inspection, “Exceeding Expectations”

    Orion, in the foreground of the picture, is a bright white in contrast to the darkness of space. The Moon is approximately 3/4 illuminated to the right of the spacecraft, still over 100,000 miles away.

    On the third day of its Artemis I journey, NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft is now more than half way to the Moon.   “Today, we met to review the Orion spacecraft performance, and it is exceeding performance expectations.” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager.  Friday, flight controllers used Orion’s cameras to inspect the crew module …

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    NASA, SpaceX Target New Launch Date for Next Commercial Cargo Mission

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon cargo spacecraft atop, is raised to a vertical position at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on Nov. 21, 2022, in preparation for the 26th commercial resupply services launch to the International Space Station. The mission will deliver new science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the crew aboard the space station, including the next pair of ISS Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs).

    NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 3:54 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 22, for the launch of the agency’s CRS-26 mission to the International Space Station with a backup opportunity on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 2:20 p.m. EST. The cargo ship will automatically dock to the forward port on the station’s Harmony module at 5:57 a.m. …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/18/2022

    Payloads: Nanoracks Module-9: Several photos were taken of the Nanoracks Module-9 hardware while in the Cupola area. NanoRacks Module-9 consists of multiple student experiments in individual Mixture Tubes all housed within a NanoRacks Module container.  Some experiments require crew interaction to remove clamps in order to mix materials to activate and/or deactivate the experiments. The …

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    Station Awaits One Dragon, Five Spacewalks Before End of Year

    Astronaut Nicole Mann (center) assists astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Frank Rubio (right), suited up in their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMU), or spacesuits, before starting a spacewalk on Nov. 15, 2022.

    The International Space Station is due to welcome a U.S. cargo craft after it launches from Florida next week. In the meantime, the Expedition 68 crew is staying focused on completing five more spacewalks for assembly and installation work before the end of the year. The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is due to lift off …

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    Janus Mission Removed from 2023 Psyche Launch Manifest

    NASA has removed its Janus mission from the Psyche mission’s 2023 launch manifest after an assessment determined that Janus would not be on the required trajectory to meet its science requirements as a result of Psyche’s new launch period. The Janus mission, which was designed to send twin small satellite spacecraft to study two separate …

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    NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Update on Latest Deployment Efforts

    UPDATE AS OF DECEMBER 15, 2022: The Lucy team updated the spacecraft’s attitude controller on Dec. 6, resolving the previously observed vibration interaction between the controller and the solar array structural modes. As previously reported, the vibration was too small to pose a risk and the spacecraft continues to operate safely. The team resumed solar …

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