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Officials Raise Concerns About Software for the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Flown

NASA’s 322-foot rocket “Space Launch System” rocket “would be the most powerful rocket ever flown, eclipsing both the Saturn V that flew astronauts to the moon and SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy,” reports the Washington Post. But “it’s not the rocket’s engines that concern officials but the software that will control everything the rocket does, from setting its trajectory to opening individual valves…

Air Force, SpaceX mum about sky-high rocket costs

Five years ago, Elon Musk, the multibillionaire CEO of the SpaceX rocket company, smashed his way into the business of launching U.S. military and intelligence satellites, a lucrative market that had been cornered for nearly a decade by United Launch Alliance. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-air-spacex-mum-sky-high-rocket.html…

Follow the Perseverance rover in real time on its way to Mars

Keep track of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance is right now, on its journey through space towards its February 18, 2021 landing on Mars. This web app shows you where spacecraft is right now. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/follow-perseverance-rover-real-time-mars-journey-app…

Boeing and NASA Target December For Second Try at Uncrewed Orbital Demonstration Flight

NASA and Boeing have provided some updates around their Commercial Crew plans, which aim to get Boeing’s CST-100 spacecraft certified for regular human flight. From a report: The CST-100 and Boeing’s Commercial Crew aspirations hit a snag last year with a first attempt of an uncrewed orbital flight test, which did not go to plan thanks to a couple of software…