The BITSE team tested the door on their instrument, which was almost ready for its balloon flight to the top of the sky.
Knock, Knock, Knocking on BITSE’s Door
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The BITSE team tested the door on their instrument, which was almost ready for its balloon flight to the top of the sky.
Live launch coverage is underway on NASA Television and the agency’s website for the targeted lift off at 9:57 a.m. EDT (6:57 p.m. Kazakhstan time), of a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori from the United Arab Emirates …
H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)8 Launch: HTV8 launched successfully today from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan at 11:05 AM CT. Capture and berthing are scheduled for Saturday, September 28. The vehicle will deliver approximately four tons of supplies, space parts, and experiment hardware. Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF): In preparation for the next set of ELF experiment runs, …
Japan’s cargo craft is on its way to resupply the International Space Station as a Russian crew ship counts down to launch Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, the six Expedition 60 crewmembers orbiting Earth today continued their lab maintenance and space research to benefit humanity. The HTV-8 space freighter lifted off Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center …
When I said I was going to Ouagadougou (Wa-ga-du-gu), the first question was “where, again?” So let’s start with the basics. Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso–a land-locked country in West Africa–located to the south of Mali, southwest of Niger, and north of Ghana and Togo. It is home to over 80 ethnic groups […]
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-IIB rocket launched at 12:05 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 24 (1:05 a.m. Sept. 25 in Japan) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. At the time of launch, the space station was flying 258 statute miles over Mali in southwest Africa. A little more than 15 minutes after …
A Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-IIB rocket is fueled and ready for a launch of the H-II Transfer Vehicle-8 (HTV-8) at 12:05 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 24 (1:05 a.m. Sept. 25 in Japan) at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Live coverage is underway on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Named Kounotori, …
Combustion Integration Rack (CIR)/ Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME): In support of the ongoing s-Flame experiment, the crew replaced the fuel and oxidizer manifold bottles as well as the mass flow controller. The purpose of s-Flame is to advance the ability to predict the structure and dynamics, including extinction and instabilities, of both soot-free …
Japan is getting ready to launch its H-II Transport Vehicle-8 (HTV-8) cargo craft on Tuesday at 12:05 p.m. EDT to replenish the International Space Station crew. Russia has already rolled out its Soyuz MS-15 crew ship to its launch pad for a liftoff on Wednesday at 9:57 a.m. with three new crewmates. NASA TV will …
Biomolecule Extraction and Sequencing Technology (BEST): The crew transferred cells from previously stowed media kit to the new media tubes using pipettes and temp stow tubes. The BEST investigation studies the use of sequencing for identification of unknown microbial organisms living on the ISS, and how humans, plants and microbes adapt to living on the …