After 4,000 hours flying in 40 different airplane types for the military, Canadian astronaut Josh Kutryk is ready to redeploy that experience to a new type of craft. Last month, Kutryk, a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut, was assigned to Starliner 1, the first operational crewed mission of Boeing‘s new Starliner spacecraft. A colonel in …
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A SpaceX mission featuring the first private spacewalk is delayed once again, this time to April 2024. It’s known as Polaris Dawn. Jared Isaacman, the billionaire funding the private space mission in collaboration with SpaceX, disclosed the news Saturday (Dec. 9) in replies on X (formerly Twitter) to a question about when his mission will …
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China launched a new trio of reconnaissance satellites over the weekend on a mission that also marked the 500th Long March rocket launch. A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 8:58 p.m. EST on Dec. 9 (0158 GMT, or 9:58 a.m. Beijing time, Dec. 10). The rocket rose into …
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Blue Origin will end its 15-month spaceflight hiatus next week, if all goes according to plan. The company, which was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, hasn’t flown since its New Shepard suborbital vehicle suffered an anomaly during an uncrewed research flight on Sept. 12, 2022. But that long drought is about to end. “We’re targeting …
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SpaceX could give us a launch doubleheader on Wednesday night (Dec. 13). The company aims to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday atop a Falcon 9 rocket, during a nearly four-hour window that opens at 11:07 p.m. EST (0407 GMT on Dec. 14). You …
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