Events

S36 Static Fire Test

Starship S36 exploded during its second static fire tests

Starbase Texas, USA

Axiom-4 In-flight Update

In-flight Update from the Axiom-4 Crew inside Dragon Grace.

Space

SpaceX AX-4 Crew Dragon Docking

The AX-4 Crew Dragon will dock autonomously to the International Space Station.

International Space Station

BOLE DM-1 Static Fire Test

Northrop Grumman will static fire the first Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket booster, slated for use on the Block 2 variant of the Space Launch System (SLS). Featuring several improvements including a denser solid propellant mix, lighter composite cases and optimized thrust trace, the BOLE boosters are planned to be used from the launch of Artemis IX onward.

Northrop Grumman Promontory Test Facility, Utah

Progress MS-29 Undocking

The Progress MS-29 spacecraft will undock from the Poisk module of the International Space Station. It will then de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

International Space Station

MaxiDusty-2 Sounding Rocket Launch

UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Andøya Space have now completed the necessary preparations for an all-Norwegian research rocket named MaxiDusty-2. Among other things, the rocket will bring back dust and particles from the mesosphere, so that the researchers can study these carefully in their laboratories. In the period May-August, this area of altitude in the atmosphere is the coldest place on Earth with around 160 degrees below zero. In fact, it has to be that cold before the water that has bound to the dust particles freezes into ice and eventually forms large ice clouds, known as nocturnal clouds.

Andoya Norway

Progress MS-31 Docking

The Progress MS-31 spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock to the Poisk module of the ISS.

International Space Station

SpaceX AX-4 Crew Hatch Close

Coverage of the Final Ingress by the SpaceX/Axiom-4 Crew into the Dragon Grace at the International Space Station

ISS

SpaceX AX-4 Crew Dragon Undocking

The AX-4 Crew Dragon will undock from the International Space Station, for its return to earth.

International Space Station

SpaceX AX-4 Crew Dragon Splashdown

The AX-4 Crew Dragon will splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, bringing its crew back to Earth after spending about 2 weeks on the International Space Station.

Pacific Ocean

NASA TRACERS Media Teleconference

NASA will hold a media teleconference to share information about the agency’s upcoming Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, mission. The TRACERS mission is a pair of twin satellites that will study how Earth’s magnetic shield — the magnetosphere — protects our planet from the supersonic stream of material from the Sun called solar wind. As they fly pole to pole in a Sun-synchronous orbit, the two TRACERS spacecraft will measure how magnetic explosions send these solar wind particles zooming down into Earth’s atmosphere — and how these explosions shape the space weather that impacts our satellites, technology, and astronauts. Also launching on this flight will be three additional NASA-funded payloads. The Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, led by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is designed to demonstrate an innovative, configurable way to put remote-sensing instruments into orbit faster and more affordably. The Polylingual Experimental Terminal technology demonstration, managed by the agency’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) program, will showcase new technology that empowers missions to roam between communications networks in space, like cell phones roam between providers on Earth. Finally, the Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat, led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, will use space as a laboratory to understand how high-energy particles within the bands of radiation that surround Earth are naturally scattered into the atmosphere, aiding the development of methods for removing these damaging particles to better protect satellites and the critical ground systems they support.

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NASA NISAR News Conference

NASA-hosted news conference to discuss the upcoming NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission. The Earth-observing satellite, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), carries an advanced radar system that will help protect communities by providing a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented detail and detecting the movement of land and ice surfaces down to the centimeter. The NISAR mission will lift off from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, on India’s southeastern coast. Launch is targeted for no earlier than late July.

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SpaceX Crew-10 Pre-Departure On-Orbit News Conference

The Crew-10 astronauts will give a news conference from the International Space Station before their return to Earth.

International Space Station

MetOp-SG A1 & Sentinel-5 Pre-Launch Media Briefing

With launch slated for August, the first MetOp Second Generation satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, which also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, is currently undergoing final preparations for liftoff aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

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NASA NISAR Pre-Launch Teleconference

NASA-hosted teleconference to discuss the upcoming NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission, with the following participants: - Karen St. Germain, director of Earth science, NASA Headquarters - Gerald Bawden, NISAR program scientist, NASA Headquarters - Shanna McClain, Disasters program manager, NASA Headquarters - Phil Barela, NISAR project manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Marco Lavalle, NISAR deputy project scientist, NASA JPL

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Crew-11 Falcon 9 Static Fire Test

SpaceX will attempt a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket at launch pad 39A ahead of its planned launch with Crew Dragon carrying a new crew to the International Space Station. A static test fire on Monday was aborted in the final minute of the countdown due to an issue with the launch pad clamp arms.

LC-39A, KSC

SpaceX Crew-11 Pre-Launch News Conference

NASA, SpaceX, ROSCOSMOS and JAXA will host a press conference ahead of Crew-11 launch to the International Space Station with the following participants - Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate - Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program - Dana Weigel, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program - William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX - Sergei Krikalev, deputy director general, Manned and Automated Complexes, Roscosmos - Naoki Nagai, program manager, International Space Station, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

S37 Static Fire Test

Starship S37 has performed its single engine static fire on Orbital Launch Pad-A at Starbase.

Starbase Texas, USA

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Postlaunch News Conference

Following the successful launch of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission on Thursday, July 31, experts from NASA and our mission partners share updates and answer media questions in a postlaunch news conference. Participants include: - Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate - Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program - Dana Weigel, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program - Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, associate director general, Space Exploration Center/Space Exploration Innovation Hub Center, JAXA - Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX

S37 Static Fire Test #2

Starship S37 has performed a 6 engines static fire on Orbital Launch Pad-A at Starbase.

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