Rocket Lab has unveiled plans for a larger rocket that can carry bigger payloads than its current reusable trooper, the Electron. It’s called the Neutron and will be capable of carrying 8 metric tons to low-Earth orbit compared to the Electron’s 660 lbs capacity. Engadget reports: The Neutron will also have a fully reusable first stage that can land on an…
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Hanna weakens to tropical storm, wallops southeast Texas with heavy rains, flash flooding
Hanna, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is walloping southeast Texas and northeast Mexico with heavy rains and dangerous flash flooding, according to the National Hurricane Center. Source: https://www.livescience.com/tropical-storm-hanna-landfall-texas.html
In the US East? Look up for Sunday’s space launch
A Cygnus resupply spacecraft headed for the International Space Station is scheduled to launch on Sunday, February 9 from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. How and when to watch live in the sky, or on NASA TV. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/watch-cygnus-launch-iss-feb9-2020…
Space mice and robots among latest science heading into space from Wallops Island
Space mice, radiation vests, robotic avatars and recycling polymers for 3-D printers are among the science experiments bound for the International Space Station on the next commercial resupply mission from Virginia. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-space-mice-robots-latest-science_1.html…
Astrobee’s first robot completes initial hardware checks in space
NASA astronaut Anne McClain performs the first series of tests of an Astrobee robot, Bumble, during a hardware checkout. To her right is the docking station that was installed in the Kibo module on the International Space Station on Feb. 15. Bumble, and another robot named Honey, launched to the space station on Apr. 17, aboard Northrop Grumman’s eleventh commercial resupply…
How Facebook Mis-Captioned the Launch of a NASA Supply Rocket
An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica:
An Antares rocket built by Northrop Grumman launched on Wednesday afternoon, boosting a Cygnus spacecraft with 3.4 tons of cargo toward the International Space Station. The launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, went flawlessly, and the spacecraft arrived at the station on Friday. However, when NASA’s International Space Station program posted the launch video to its Facebook…