It’s the first time astronauts have ridden an Atlas since NASA’s Project Mercury, starting with John Glenn when he became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. Now 62 years later, Wednesday’s launch was the 100th for the top-of-the-line Atlas V, which is used to hoist...
The launch of Boeing’s Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) tomorrow (Monday) is hands-down the BIG EVENT this week. But there’s lots of other good stuff going on, too, including the annual Humans to Mars Summit and the first meeting of the NASA Advisory Council in almost a year and a...
Today (Sunday, January 28) is the anniversary of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy that killed NASA astronauts Dick Scobee, Mike Smith, Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka and Judy Resnik; Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe; and Hughes Aircraft payload specialist Greg Jarvis. Aerodynamic forces to...
Its fellow launchpad, SLC 37A, was never used and remains inactive, according to Spaceline.org. The first suborbital rocket launch from CCSFS occurred in 1956, with Jupiter A launching on July 19 from Launch Complex 5. CCSFS is responsible for a number of firsts. In February 1958, the...
Originally called Navstar GPS, this space-based technology is owned by the U.S. government and operated by the U.S. Space Force and relies on a swarm of 31 satellites to provide users with approximately 23 ft (7 meters) accuracy, 95% of the time, anywhere on Earth's surface, according...
CrowdStrike offers cloud-based security solutions to businesses. Its Falcon tool - one of the reasons for the outage on Friday - identifies unusual behavior and vulnerabilities to protect computer systems from threats such as malware. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas...
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A ball is dropped from a height of 50 meters. Find the impact velocity and the time it takes to hit the ground. Given an initial launch speed of 10.45m/s, what is the maximum range a projectile can travel, across level ground...
NASA’s new human spaceflight system, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew spacecraft,willhave an uncrewed space test flight first, Artemis I. NASA is getting ready to launch it hopefully in June and this week will resume the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) where the SLS tanks are fille...
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