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SpaceX plans to send an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018.
The announcement was made on Twitter today and is a first step in achieving founder Elon Musk's goal to fly people to another planet.
If SpaceX is successful, it will beat all other world space agencies in landing a new robot on Mars. Nasa, which is aiming for a human mission to Mars in the 2030s, said it will provide technical support for SpaceX's first foray, known as Red Dragon.
The company said it will provide details of its Mars program at the International Astronautical Congress in September.
'Dragon 2 is designed to be able to land anywhere in the solar system,' Musk posted on Twitter.
'Red Dragon Mars mission is the first test flight.'
He said that with an internal volume about the size of a sports utility vehicle, the Dragon spacecraft would be uncomfortable for people making the long journey to Mars.
Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur who helped to found Tesla Motors and PayPal, started SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of slashing launch costs to make Mars travel affordable.
SpaceX intends to debut its Mars rocket, a heavy-lift version of the Falcon 9 booster currently flying, later this year.
The announcement was made on Twitter today and is a first step in achieving founder Elon Musk's goal to fly people to another planet.
If SpaceX is successful, it will beat all other world space agencies in landing a new robot on Mars. Nasa, which is aiming for a human mission to Mars in the 2030s, said it will provide technical support for SpaceX's first foray, known as Red Dragon.
The company said it will provide details of its Mars program at the International Astronautical Congress in September.
'Dragon 2 is designed to be able to land anywhere in the solar system,' Musk posted on Twitter.
'Red Dragon Mars mission is the first test flight.'
He said that with an internal volume about the size of a sports utility vehicle, the Dragon spacecraft would be uncomfortable for people making the long journey to Mars.
Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur who helped to found Tesla Motors and PayPal, started SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of slashing launch costs to make Mars travel affordable.
SpaceX intends to debut its Mars rocket, a heavy-lift version of the Falcon 9 booster currently flying, later this year.
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Yaaaay! After so many delays finally!
A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 km from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region on Thursday, April 28, 2016.
The Soyuz 2.1a booster blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far Easter in the early hours Moscow time on Thursday. The three satellites the rocket was carrying orbited several hours later.
A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 km from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region on Thursday, April 28, 2016.
The Soyuz 2.1a booster blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far Easter in the early hours Moscow time on Thursday. The three satellites the rocket was carrying orbited several hours later.
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Orion Crew Module for Exploration Mission-1 Lifted to Test Stand
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An array of four T6 thrusters – known as the Solar Electric Propulsion System – being fitted to BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module at ESA's ESTEC Test Centre during April 2016. The MTM is a dedicated transport spacecraft that will carry Europe's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter together to the innermost planet from the Sun over the course of a 6.5-year cruise phase.
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ISS 360: Tranquility (Node 3)
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Sentinel-1B's first image
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Replay of the Sentinel-1B launch coverage from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The second satellite in the Sentinel-1 mission lifted off on a Soyuz rocket on 25 April 2016 at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST) to provide 'radar vision' of Earth for Europe's environmental Copernicus monitoring programme.
(watch and/or download Sentinel-1B launch replay) 1 h 8 min (MP4 file is ~ 2 GB)
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A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket, carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites (today's launch image)
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Space Station Live: The Doctor is In
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Good morning from ISS
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An array of four T6 thrusters – known as the Solar Electric Propulsion System – being fitted to BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module at ESA's ESTEC Test Centre during April 2016. The MTM is a dedicated transport spacecraft that will carry Europe's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter together to the innermost planet from the Sun over the course of a 6.5-year cruise phase.
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ISS 360: Tranquility (Node 3)
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Sentinel-1B's first image
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Replay of the Sentinel-1B launch coverage from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The second satellite in the Sentinel-1 mission lifted off on a Soyuz rocket on 25 April 2016 at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST) to provide 'radar vision' of Earth for Europe's environmental Copernicus monitoring programme.
(watch and/or download Sentinel-1B launch replay) 1 h 8 min (MP4 file is ~ 2 GB)
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A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket, carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites (today's launch image)
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Space Station Live: The Doctor is In
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Good morning from ISS
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Simulators Offer Astronauts Glimpse of Future Flight
NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston in 360
Some old stuff I missed
Europe's 11th and 12th Galileo satellites prepared for launch in the clean room at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellites were launched on a Soyuz rocket on 17 December 2015.
The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over to central western Namibia, an area surrounding the Namib Naukluft Park, in this image taken on 28 January 2016.
NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston in 360
Some old stuff I missed
Europe's 11th and 12th Galileo satellites prepared for launch in the clean room at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellites were launched on a Soyuz rocket on 17 December 2015.
The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over to central western Namibia, an area surrounding the Namib Naukluft Park, in this image taken on 28 January 2016.
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Earth Expeditions: Inside NASA's Flying Air Quality Lab (360° video)
SpaceX Dragon Heads Home from ISS with Valuable Science Data
The first ever manned Soyuz-MS spacecraft before launch (Russian)
launch date: June 24
crew: Russia's cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and NASA's astronaut Kathleen Rubins.
Earth Expeditions: Inside NASA's Flying Air Quality Lab (360° video)
SpaceX Dragon Heads Home from ISS with Valuable Science Data
The first ever manned Soyuz-MS spacecraft before launch (Russian)
launch date: June 24
crew: Russia's cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and NASA's astronaut Kathleen Rubins.
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New images by ESA:
Europe's 13th Galileo satellite was fuelled with hydrazine on 5 May 2016 inside the S3B payload preparation facility of Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The 14th satellite was similarly fuelled the following day ahead of a shared launch by Soyuz from French Guiana on 24 May.
A drill designed to penetrate 1–2 m into the lunar surface is envisaged by ESA to fly to the Moon's south pole on Russia's Luna-27 lander in 2020.
Informative gif from NASA
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Here's amazing video by Roscosmos:
The first launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome (28 April, post #254 on this page). Unique video from on-board cameras:
Europe's 13th Galileo satellite was fuelled with hydrazine on 5 May 2016 inside the S3B payload preparation facility of Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The 14th satellite was similarly fuelled the following day ahead of a shared launch by Soyuz from French Guiana on 24 May.
A drill designed to penetrate 1–2 m into the lunar surface is envisaged by ESA to fly to the Moon's south pole on Russia's Luna-27 lander in 2020.
Informative gif from NASA
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Here's amazing video by Roscosmos:
The first launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome (28 April, post #254 on this page). Unique video from on-board cameras:
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India's first-ever indigenous space shuttle RLV-TD launched successfully
Пилотируемое освоение космоса/Human space exploration
Watch the launch of Galileo-13/14
Europe takes its next step in creating its own navigation satellite constellation on Tuesday 24 May, with the launch of the 13th and 14th Galileo satellites. The pair is scheduled to lift off at 08:48 GMT (05:48 local time, 10:48 CEST) on 24 May from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana atop a Soyuz launcher.
Streaming begins at 08:28 GMT (10:28 CEST) on 24 May for the liftoff, then resumes at 12:23 GMT (14:23 CEST) to cover the satellites' separation.
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Rewatch the full coverage of the liftoff of Europe's 13th and 14th Galileo satellites, which lifted off at 08:48 GMT (05:48 local time, 10:48 CEST) on 24 May from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana atop a Soyuz launcher.
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At Baikonur launch site preparations continue for the launch of the latest version of Russia's manned spacecraft Soyuz MS.
Between 20th and 25th May 2016 the spacecraft passed leak test in a vacuum chamber.
The launch is scheduled for 24th June 2016
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During Soyuz-2.1a launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome, Stage 3 operation was provided by the engine made in Voronezh Mechanical Plant. Time of engine's work is just 250 seconds. But the colossal task is to deliver payloads into space. Creating a rocket engine is a unique production that solves many problems: reliability, safety, efficiency.
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At Baikonur launch site preparations continue for the launch of the latest version of Russia's manned spacecraft Soyuz MS.
Between 20th and 25th May 2016 the spacecraft passed leak test in a vacuum chamber.
The launch is scheduled for 24th June 2016
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During Soyuz-2.1a launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome, Stage 3 operation was provided by the engine made in Voronezh Mechanical Plant. Time of engine's work is just 250 seconds. But the colossal task is to deliver payloads into space. Creating a rocket engine is a unique production that solves many problems: reliability, safety, efficiency.
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The International Space Station had been set to get an extension today with Nasa blowing up its new inflatable habitat module.
Nasa astronaut Flight Engineer Jeff Williams began manual deployment of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (Beam) this morning at around 10.30 BST.
But the operation was cancelled midway due to over-running and a number of other factors, including the module not taking the shape it was expected to.
The half-inflated module has now been capped, ready to resume inflation tomorrow after checks and analysis of the day’s events from engineers on the ground.
Initial steps saw vent valves closed in order to hold the pressure inside Beam, with restraining straps around the module released.
Beam was then inflated in short bursts - often only just one second at a time - with pressure values constantly fed back to mission control in order to keep everything stable, leading to extended periods of waiting.
Nasa astronaut Flight Engineer Jeff Williams began manual deployment of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (Beam) this morning at around 10.30 BST.
But the operation was cancelled midway due to over-running and a number of other factors, including the module not taking the shape it was expected to.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome (June 5): Rollout of rocket «Протон-М» with «Бриз-М» booster and telecommunication satellite Intelsat DLA-2
Launch is on Wednesday (June 8)
Baikonur Cosmodrome (June 5): Rollout of rocket «Протон-М» with «Бриз-М» booster and telecommunication satellite Intelsat DLA-2
Launch is on Wednesday (June 8)