NASA restores contact with moon-bound Capstone after losing connection
Contact was lost after one successful communication and a second partial one on Monday, after the spacecraft left Earth's orbit on its way to the moon, the space agency said.
The 55-pound satellite is the size of a microwave oven and will be the first spacecraft to try out this oval orbit, which is where NASA wants to put its Gateway outpost. Gateway would serve as a staging point for astronauts before they descend to the lunar surface.
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NASA Warns Pressure Test This Weekend Will Sound Like Explosive Boom
NASA will be conducting a pressure test in Houston , Texas on July 9, and it is warning that it might sound like an explosion to people in the nearby vicinity.
Between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. CDT, the pressure test will occur at the Energy Systems Test Activity area of the Johnson Space Center. According to a NASA news release, the loud boom is expected to happen in the final hour of the test, somewhere between 11 a.m.
NASA sounding rockets blasting off to assess Alpha Centauri | Space
Alpha Centauri , just 4.3 light-years away, comprises two main stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B (which form a binary pair), as well as a third star, Proxima Centauri .
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NASA Soars From Southern Hemisphere
NASA sees success on a pair of launches from the Southern Hemisphere. Plus, prospective lunar rovers run the gauntlet on Earth, and an Independence Day anniversary for the American space program. VOA's Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.
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NASA is about to go on a journey it hasn't taken in half a century. To get there, it needs its most advanced spacecraft ever: a super heavy-lift rocket known as the Space Launch System and a crew vehicle called Orion.
NASA Shares Stunning New Photos of Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover first launched toward Mars two entire years ago and has been exploring the planet since, returning new stunning high-resolution photos of the Red Planet with each day that passes.
The photos posted Wednesday include both color and grayscale snapshots of the Martian horizon, a barren landscape with jagged rocks strewn about.
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MISSION UPDATE: Communications are back! Operators have successfully re-established contact with our #CAPSTONE sp… https://t.co/w260zYpfD0 NASAAmes (from California) Wed Jul 06 15:35:36 +0000 2022
WOO! CAPSTONE UPDATE from NASA: Mission operators have re-established contact with NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Pos… https://t.co/NDuXV12GxH NASASpaceflight (from Englishman on Tour) Wed Jul 06 15:33:22 +0000 2022
MISSION UPDATE: Teams are working to re-establish contact with our #CAPSTONE spacecraft which experienced communica… https://t.co/EgquP81FcL NASAAmes (from California) Tue Jul 05 16:33:09 +0000 2022
NASA says it will publish on Friday the list of targets for the first JWST images and spectra, which are still plan… https://t.co/V7CHCxmgKO jeff_foust (from Rockville, Maryland, USA) Thu Jul 07 19:33:48 +0000 2022
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