NASA chooses to fix Megarocket hydrogen leak on launch pad

SLS on the Kennedy Area Heart launch pad in Florida. Picture: Nasa NASA is getting ready to switch a defective seal linked to a hydrogen leak that led to SLS’s second launch try on Saturday. Repairs will happen on the launch pad, which is right from a testing perspective, however NASA nonetheless must get the … Read more

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just been hit by a gigantic explosion from the sun

Artist’s rendering of Photo voltaic Orbiter.Drawing: Medialab ESA/ATG photo voltaic orbiter has been touring in area for greater than two years, performing a number of shut flybys of Venus because it steadily approaches the Solar. On September 4, the small spacecraft was in the course of its final gravitational help when it felt the violent … Read more

Voyager 1 and 2, Humanity’s Interstellar Envoys, Limitless at 45

As we speak is the forty fifth anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, one in every of humanity’s iconic twin emissaries to the cosmos. (Its sibling, Voyager 2, launched just a few weeks earlier.) Now, at the hours of darkness and much reaches of interstellar house — greater than 10 billion miles from dwelling, … Read more

Artemis 1: to boldly go where four RS-25 engines have gone many times before

Artist’s rendering of SLS at launch, with 4 RS-25 engines, together with a pair of stable rocket boosters, offering 8.8 million kilos of thrust. Picture: NASA/MSFC Every of the 4 RS-25 engines presently positioned on the base of NASA’s Area Launch System have gone to area many occasions earlier than, and every has an attention-grabbing … Read more

Artemis 1: to boldly go where four RS-25 engines have gone many times before

Artist’s rendering of SLS at launch, with 4 RS-25 engines, together with a pair of stable rocket boosters, offering 8.8 million kilos of thrust. Picture: NASA/MSFC Every of the 4 RS-25 engines presently positioned on the base of NASA’s Area Launch System have gone to area many occasions earlier than, and every has an attention-grabbing … Read more