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Perseverance
The red planet has another visitor on its way in 2020. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover launches from Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard the Atlas V rocket on July 30, 2020! The rover is expected to reach its destination (Jezero Crater) on the 18 of February, 2021. This Mars 2020 mission will…
Starship Hop Test
Coming up on July 16 (time currently unconfirmed), SpaceX will be performing a hop test[1] of their SN5 Starship at Boca Chica, Texas![2] The modern-day space shuttle will be hopping to an altitude of 150 meters to verify the launch and landing performance of Starship.[1] The Rocket At 120 meters tall with a diameter of…
Al Amal “Hope” Mars Mission
The space race continues as the United Arab Emirates prepares for its 4:50pm EDT launch of the Al Amal Mars mission, or “Hope” mission on July 14.[1] The probe is expected to reach Mars in February of 2021! The mission was first announced in July of 2014 by the president of the United Arab Emirates.[2]…
SpaceX GPS Satellite
At 3:55 pm EDT on June 30th of 2020, SpaceX will launch a third GPS satellite (manufactured by Lockheed Martin[2]) for government and public use. The launch was originally scheduled for the 29th but was postponed due to COVID-19 protective measures.[1] As one would expect, SpaceX will be launching the satellite with the Falcon 9…
Demo-2… 2
Last Wednesday, SpaceX attempted to launch two astronauts, Douglas Hurley (the spacecraft commander) and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. The mission’s purpose was to demonstrate SpaceX’s first crew capsule: Crew Dragon. Due to weather conditions, the mission — Demo-2 — was postponed to May 30. So far, weather…
Demo-2 (Crew Dragon)
04 October 1957: The first satellite, Sputnik, was launched into space. 12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin became the first man launched into space. 20 July 1969: The lunar module of Apollo 11 touched down on the moon, bringing the first men to step foot on Earth’s slightly less green younger cousin: Buzz Aldrin and Neil…
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