Space Endeavours

More space related stuff but this time on Mars.

Subscale Artemis moon rocket.

Good to see different vendors being used to send stuff into space. Rocket Lab this time with a NASA payload.

Mesmerizing view of Earth from space.

Latest SpaceX mission.

SpaceX TED talk.

SEND IT rocketry.

ATLAS V rocket takes missile-warning sat aloft for the US Space Force.

Test-firing of a longmarch 5 rocket engine.

Artemis 1

A recent ruling by the FCC has allowed SpaceX to move closer to having SAT COM on moving vehicles. These would include "earth stations on vessels, vehicle-mounted earth stations, and earth stations aboard aircraft."

Lunar-related news.

Latest Starlink mission gone aloft.

Asteroid Bennu.

46 new Starlink satellites go aloft.

Airbus engineer Sophie Narbonne (Attitude And Orbit Control System (AOCS) Architect for MSR-ERO mission)and her colleagues are developing the first interplanetary cargo courier. Earth Return Orbiter will bring the first-ever Mars samples to Earth in the early 2030s, allowing scientists to determine whether other life exists in our universe. ERO is currently under development and will be launched in 2027 on a Ariane 64. It will enter Martian orbit in 2030, capture and “swallow” the basketball sized capsule carrying the Mars samples in 2031. ERO will then fly back to Earth and deposit them in the Utah desert in 2033. The samples will then be delivered to several international laboratories where, for the first time ever, scientists can study rock samples from Mars.

First image taken from the James Webb Telescope.

Rocket Lab sends a US SPY satellite aloft.