April 16, 20187 yr NASA's TESS satellite expands search for exoplanets Quote Launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a NASA planet-hunting spacecraft was called off Monday to allow time for additional guidance, navigation and control analysis, company officials said in a Twitter post. No other details were provided. Assuming the issue can be resolved in time, the Falcon 9 carrying NASA's $337 million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, satellite will take off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51 p.m. EDT (GMT-4) Wednesday. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-launch-nasa-tess-satellite-expands-search-for-exoplanets/ Edited April 19, 20187 yr by Dolemite
February 15, 20223 yr I know there's a ton of SpaceX threads already, but an interesting interview with Jacob Isaacman just dropped. Isaacman was the commander, pilot, and funder of the first all-civilian orbital flight. I'm linking this interview in the commercial spaceflight thread since a stated desired outcome from the next three missions he's funding is to proof out some operational evolutions that would make commercial spaceflight and space operations more viable. He's hoping for the first mission to break the record for highest orbital flight (previously achieved in Gemini 11 at 853 miles) and to conduct an EVA out of a Dragon capsule at a lower orbit of ~300 miles. The second mission will just be an iteration of lessons from the first, and to "de-risk" for the third mission - a crewed flight of Starship. All the while, they're planning on live-streaming and broadcasting everything by leveraging Starlink satellites for real-time communication and telemetry Edited February 15, 20223 yr by Captainant
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