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Installation of the solar array wings for the Orion spacecraft that will fly on the agency's Artemis I mission has begun inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. These will provide the spacecraft's power, propulsion, air, and water. Also, two seed carriers for PH-02 - a plant experiment featuring radishes - bound for the Advanced Plant Habitat on the International Space Station were planted this week. The seeds will fly aboard Northrop Grumman's 14th commercial resupply services mission. Liftoff of the Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled for Sept. 29 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Test location: Promontory, Utah Full-scale Space Launch System (SLS) rocket booster test. Northrop Grumman is the manufacturer of the SLS's solid rocket boosters. YouTube corrupted my original live stream video, so here is a re-upload. If you enjoy space content, feel free to: 👍 Like this video ✅ Subscribe to Raw Space 🔔 Activate Notifications so you don't miss anything To support Raw Space, get perks, and enable even better content: 🟢 Join to become a Member! https://youtube.com/c/RawSpaceVideos/join 😁 SuperChat and SuperStickers in live stream chats 👕 "Rawlmart" merch store: https://teespring.com/stores/rawspace 🔴 Patreon: https://patreon.com/RawSpace 🔵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/RawSpaceVideos 👀 Check out "SpaceWeek", my weekly summary of all things space! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoDeylKPVlZvA5zkXpjspqnKcOU82nc7E 📆 Raw Space's calendar of launches and events: https://tiny.cc/RawSpaceSched 🗨 Join us on Discord for text and voice chat! https://discord.gg/tGTQYRs 🎵 Outro music: CO.AG - Anything is Possible Outro video clips courtesy NASA and SpaceX 🚗 Interested in buying a Tesla? Use my referral code for 1000 miles of free Supercharging! https://ts.la/matthew76381 🤗 Thank you!

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The Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission, known as SEOSAT-Ingenio, will soon be shipped from Airbus, in Madrid, to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana - where it will be prepared for launch later this year on a Vega rocket. The Earth-observing satellite carries a state-of-the-art dual camera that can image Earth’s land with a resolution of 2.5 m. The mission will benefit society through numerous disciplines such as cartography, agriculture, forestry, urban development and water management. With its capability to look sideways, it can access any point on Earth within three days, and will be used to help map natural disasters such as floods, wildfires and earthquakes – as well as help with one of humankind’s biggest challenges: understanding and responding to climate change. While SEOSAT–Ingenio is a Spanish national mission, it is the result of an international collaborative effort. The mission is funded by Spain’s Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, but developed by ESA in the context of the European Earth Observation Architecture. Learn more: https://bit.ly/Seosat-Ingenio ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideos Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitter On Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebook On Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagram On Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr We are Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out http://www.esa.int/ESA to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions

Just a quick update of whats happened in the last few days with SpaceX Starship. Well at 4.58am local time , SN 7.1 test tank finally gave into the pressure and blew its lid. This was the intended result as SpaceX pushed the tank to see how much it could withstand. Also, SN8 has wings!! Yesterday we saw SN 8 getting fitted with its flaps as it prepares for its static fire tests before it is launched 20km !! Lots of great info, photos and videos coming from Boca Chica Big thanks to @LabPadre - You can view his 24 live stream from Boca Chica here (he has 4!!!) : Thanks also to Mary AKA Bocachicagirl and NOMADD from Nasa Space Flight - you can find the hi-res images used in this video on this page (a great resource) https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=51332.msg2135123#msg2135123 Also thanks to Brendan and Neopork on twitter for their outstanding Starship designs @brendan2908 and @neopork85! Thanks for watching - why not support this channel and help us grow. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakgsb0w7QB0VHdnCc-OVEA/join Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace?sub_confirmation=1 See my latest videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace/videos Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9 Music by Keving Macleod http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

Blue Origin is targeting Thursday, Sept. 24, at 11:00 a.m. EDT to launch New Shepard. The company’s live launch webcast will start at 10:30 a.m. and air on NASA Television and the agency’s website (https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive/). NASA EDGE continues to look at NASA’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) technology suite. Sensors, algorithms, and a new computer for precise landings on other worlds will be flight tested on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. Franklin is joined by NASA’s Ron Sostaric and Glenn Hines to learn more about navigation Doppler lidar (NDL) and how it will be matured on New Shepard and prepared for flight on commercial robotic lunar landers. Check it out!

The solid rocket motors on the space shuttle accounted for the majority of the launch mass and launch thrust. They're the most powerful rocket thrusters ever flown, at least until the 5 segment versions take flight with SLS in the next year or so. I've often described solid rocket motors as being relatively simple compared to the complex plumbing, pumps and turbines of liquid rocket motors. However there's still a huge amount of critical engineering and science that goes into these boosters. The design of the boosters were also partly responsible for the accident that destroyed Challenger during launch.

Teams with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems rehearsed booster stacking operations using mock-ups, referred to as pathfinders, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The exercise involved preparing an aft pathfinder segment in High Bay 4, lifting and moving it over to High Bay 3, and placing it on the mobile launcher. A center pathfinder segment also was added to the stack. Also this week, Kennedy employees participated in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's "stand down to prevent falls" campaign.

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This week Ryan talks SpaceX shop, Jared says farewell to OmegA, gets a GEM of a booster, considers ULA considering Vulcan Heavy, and watches Astra's Rocket 3.1 perform a test flight. A single launch and a launch failure from China are our Space Traffic for the week. The Sun has been quiet, but the Earth doesn't get a break in Dr. Tamitha Skov's Space Weather forecast. The mystery of China's "reusable experimental spacecraft" deepens, and NASA's Juno mission asks for a worthy extension. And remember you can always help out the shows of TMRO by becoming a member here: https://www.youtube.com/user/TMRO/join TMRO on Discord: https://discord.gg/9NCFaE GROUND LAUNCH SEQUENCER: 00:00 | Intro 00:41 | SpaceX Update with Ryan Caton 02:08 | Northrop Grumman officially ends OmegA 03:06 | GEM 63 motors set for debut 05:31 | ULA is looking at Vulcan evolution 07:32 | Astra performs Rocket 3.1's test flight 10:09 | Space Traffic 11:59 | Space Weather with Dr. Tamitha Skov 13:56 | It's a spaceflight [insert your idea here]! 16:50 | Thank you all who help make TMRO possible! 17:53 | SECO-11 18:14 | Jared can't words

On Sept 7, 2020 a Chinese Long March 4B rocket launched with the Gaofen-11-02 Earth imaging satellite. The launch was successful as the satellite entered its intended orbit, but the first stage booster fell back to Earth and crashed in a Chinese village, narrowly missing a school. It produced a toxic cloud of hypergolic rocket propellant (dinitrogen tetroxide/N2O4/NTO, and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine/UDMH), which risked the well-being of the nearby citizens. The chunks of material falling from the rocket's payload fairing (nose cone) may be insulation panels that protect the payload from temperature fluctuations, that are designed to fall away on launch. Normally when we see material falling from a rocket it's just ice that has condensed on the outside of cryogenic fuel tanks, but all three stages of Long March 4B use non-cryogenic gypergolic fuels. Video clips courtesy of CNSA and various Chinese citizens. Slow motion processing by Raw Space. To support Raw Space, get perks, and enable even better content: 🟢 Join to become a Member! https://youtube.com/c/RawSpaceVideos/join 😁 SuperChat and SuperStickers in live stream chats 👕 "Rawlmart" merch store: https://teespring.com/stores/rawspace 🔴 Patreon: https://patreon.com/RawSpace 🔵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/RawSpaceVideos 👀 Check out "SpaceWeek", my weekly summary of all things space! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoDeylKPVlZvA5zkXpjspqnKcOU82nc7E 📆 Raw Space's calendar of launches and events: https://tiny.cc/RawSpaceSched 🗨 Join us on Discord for text and voice chat! https://discord.gg/tGTQYRs 🎵 Outro music: CO.AG - Anything is Possible Outro video clips courtesy NASA and SpaceX 🚗 Interested in buying a Tesla? Use my referral code for 1000 miles of free Supercharging! https://ts.la/matthew76381 🤗 Thank you!

NASA’s fifth core value – inclusion – was installed in the Central Campus lobby on Sept. 1, 2020. This fifth core value was added to the existing values embraced by NASA: safety, integrity, teamwork, and excellence. Technicians inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building lowered the Artemis I Orion spacecraft into the FAST cell after completing installation of the spacecraft adapter cone. This is one of the final major hardware operations the spacecraft will undergo during closeout processing before integration with the Space Launch System rocket. The last of three motors required to assemble the Launch Abort System for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight, arrived by truck at the Launch Abort System Facility. The attitude control motor, manufactured by Northrop Grumman, works with the other motors – the launch abort motor and the jettison motor -- to separate the spacecraft from the rocket in the unlikely event of an emergency during launch and steer the spacecraft carrying the astronauts to safety.

Join us for this week's Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches from the past week, including an Arianespace launch from French Guiana, a full complement of Starlink satellites from SpaceX, two Chinese launches, and a bonus grain silo hop! Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: * Subscribe FREE to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest * Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! * Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx - follow and subscribe! * Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx * Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast * Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosm... *Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/4g35wpW *Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ Don't forget to like and subscribe! Plus we love being shared out to new people, so tweet, comment, review us... all the free things you can do to help bring science into people's lives.

Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, visited NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to meet with NASA leadership and tour key agency and partner facilities. Accompanying him on the tour was Center Director Bob Cabana and Deputy Director Janet Petro. Also, teams with Boeing are working on the final assembly of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft's crew and service modules for the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2. Launch is targeted for no earlier than December 2020.

Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida work to safely return the Artemis I Orion spacecraft to the FAST cell after completing the installation of the spacecraft adapter (SA) cone inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on Aug. 20, 2020. This is one of the final major hardware operations the spacecraft will undergo during closeout processing prior to being integrated with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in preparation for the first Artemis mission.

The two aft skirts for NASA's Space Launch System twin solid rocket boosters for Artemis I were moved from the Booster Fabrication Facility to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) this week. The aft skirts, which house the thrust vector control system, controls 70 percent of the steering during initial ascent of the SLS rocket. They will remain in the RPSF until ready for stacking with the other booster segments in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Also this week, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana led a virtual town hall meeting for the center's workforce. He and other senior staff addressed the center's Return to Site plan and answered questions from the workforce.

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SpaceX deployed Argentina's SAOCOM-1B Earth-observation satellite shortly after its Falcon 9 launch on Sept. 1, 2020. -- SpaceX launches Earth-observation satellite for Argentina, nails rocket landing: https://www.space.com/spacex-saocom-1b-launch-rocket-landing-success.html Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX is targeting Sunday, August 30 at 7:18 p.m. EDT, or 23:18 UTC, for Falcon 9’s launch of the SAOCOM 1B mission, which will carry the SAOCOM 1B spacecraft to orbit in addition to two rideshare payloads, Tyvak-0172 and PlanetiQ’s GNOMES-1. The mission will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. A backup launch opportunity is available on Monday, August 31 at 7:19 p.m. EDT, or 23:19 UTC. This mission marks SpaceX’s first launch to a polar orbit from the East Coast, and the first polar launch from Florida in decades. Falcon 9’s first stage previously launched Dragon to the International Space Station for SpaceX’s 19th and 20th commercial resupply missions, and it also supported launch of SpaceX’s ninth Starlink mission. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9 on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SAOCOM 1B will deploy approximately 14 minutes after launch, GNOMES-1 and Tyvak-0172 will deploy approximately 61 and 62 minutes after liftoff.