The Space Post

06/08/2022

Two launches were conducted from China in the last 24 hours on what was a…

06/08/2022

SpaceX Starship compared to Saturn V rocket. SpaceX Starship will have more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V rocket 🤯.
Photo credit unknown

06/08/2022

KPLO launch from yesterday evening.

📷: Me for Supercluster

24/06/2022

16/06/2022

SpaceX is moving part of its Starship launch tower across Kennedy Space Center this evening.
Photo credit William Harwood

15/06/2022

3 years of progress at Starbase.

Credit: RGV photography

12/06/2022

SpaceX Rocket garden!

11/06/2022

Booster 7 now has all 33 engines installed!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1535478522550136834

“33 Raptor rocket engines, each producing 230 metric tons of force”

11/06/2022

Sascha, the CEO of bluShift Aerospace has released a video of the static fire test.

10/06/2022

Astra update!

The 45th Weather Squadron, part of Space Launch Delta 45, has shared the L-2 days weather forecast for Astra's Tropics-1 mission.

The launch day window which opens at Sunday, June 12, 2022 10:00 AM and closes two hours later, at Sunday, June 12, 2022 12:00 PM currently has a 50% chance of violating weather constraints at the start and increasing to 80% chance of violating weather constraints at the end.

A 24 hour delay with the same launch window has a 30% chance of violation at the start of the backup launch window, increasing to 50% violation at the end of the window.

10/06/2022

Starship update!

Test Tank B7.1 was stacked in the Highbay overnight.

Truly impressive work by the starship team.

credit: LabPadre Sentinel Cam

09/06/2022

Rocket Lab have shared the news that they will be manufacturing the solar panels on NASA's GLIDE spacecraft!

https://twitter.com/rocketlab/status/1534933067659239425

“We’re powering another mission to study the Sun! We’ve been selected by to build the solar array panel on ’s GLIDE spacecraft. Read more: https://t.co/pNEyI1SVU0”

09/06/2022

https://www.scientiststudy.com/2022/06/james-webb-space-telescope-suffers-1st.html?m=1

NASA's next-generation space observatory has sustained its first noticeable micrometeoroid impact less than six months after launch, but the agency is

09/06/2022

SpaceX Starbase update

Ship 24 is now being secured onto its transport stand.
Photo Credit: Jessica Kirsh

09/06/2022

First 3D printed rocket is on its way to the coast for its first launch!

https://talkoftitusville.com/2022/06/06/first-ever-fully-3d-printed-rocket-arrives-on-the-space-coast-for-first-launch/

First-ever fully 3D-printed rocket arrives on the Space Coast for first launch

08/06/2022

SpaceX launch update!

Mission success! Nilesat-301 has separated from Falcon 9 which concludes SpaceX coverage of the Nilesat-301 mission.

08/06/2022

SpaceX is live for the launch of Nilesat-301 from SLC-40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpCZu89zb5Y

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, June 8 for launch of Nilesat 301 to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Sp...

08/06/2022

Astra Development Update!

Astra is now targeting NET June 12 for NASA TROPICS-1 mission pending launch license issuance from the FAA!
https://astra.com/missions/tropics-1/

Astra’s objective is to successfully launch and deploy 2 TROPICS 3U CubeSats as part of NASA’s 6 CubeSat TROPICS constellation. You can read more at astra.com/newsroom and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory's TROPICS mission website.

08/06/2022

SpaceX Starship update!

Another Raptor 2 engine has been transported to the Megabay, likely for install on Booster 7.
Configuration of this raptor (Center or Boost) is currently unknown.

Picture credit: Labpadre Rover cam, 1:56AM local

08/06/2022

SpaceX starship update!

Latest Flyover of Starship/SpaceX facilities at Cape Canaveral in Florida
Credit - NASASpaceflight

- No new segments are being built, instead hardware like handrails and elevator shafts are being added to the already assembled segments. Tower Segment #5 is already getting the intial hardwork for the attachment of the Quick Disconnect Arm.

- Right Next to the Tower Segments, the GSE hardware is being assembled.

- Foundation is being prepared for the Florida High Bay

- As updated before, all six legs of the OLM are up, and most importantly a crane base is right next to the Tower Base, indicated that the crane required for assembling the Tower is going to begin assembly very soon. Also the Tower Base also seems to be cured, with work on full swing on the draw-work assembly.