SPACEFLIGHT

SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Mar. 4, 2021. It is the 20th Starlink mission. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-17-launch-success-8th-landing Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX is targeting 3:24 a.m. EST on Thursday, March 4 for launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If needed, there are backup opportunities available at 5:42 a.m. EST on Thursday, March 4, as well as 3:03 a.m. EST and 5:21 a.m. EST on Friday, March 5. The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting this mission previously flew on seven missions: the Iridium-8 mission, the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission, and five Starlink missions. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean. One half of Falcon 9’s fairing previously flew on three Starlink missions, and the other half previously supported two Starlink missions.

Have you ever wondered what is happening behind the cameras during a rocket launch TV broadcast? Enjoy this behind-the-scenes view captured during the live broadcast of the Northrop Grumman CRS-15 launch of the company's Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Feb. 20, 2021. Music: "Bring The Heat Instrumental" from Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Rich Melnick (KBR): Lead Producer/Editor This video can be shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13822. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Wallops YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAWallops Follow NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASAWFF · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasawallops/ · Twitter https://twitter.com/nasa_wallops​

NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA's Akihiko Hoshide and ESA's Thomas Pesquet will fly to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew-2 mission. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-2-astronauts-launching-april-2020 Credit: NASA

Why are rockets white? 🚀 As we look at the science of colour, join Katie to discover why rockets are white and how we see colour. #Colour #Space #Rockets

India’s PSLV-C51 carrying Amazonia-1 and 18 Co-passenger satellites is scheduled to lift-off at 10:24 a.m. IST on Sunday February 28, 2021 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Got a question or comment? Use #AskNASA to talk to us. Learn more about the important research being operated on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science For more information about STEM on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation ________________________________________ FOLLOW THE SPACE STATION! Twitter: https://twitter.com/Space_Station Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISS Instagram: https://instagram.com/iss/ Video produced at the NASA Johnson Space Center

We use the Tank Cleaning and Testing (TCAT) facility to pressure test and clean New Glenn’s stages before flight. This massive building will be used for the fully reusable first stage which stands tall at 180 feet.

Our Perseverance rover takes up residence on Mars, the space station’s next commercial resupply mission, and a new date for a commercial crew test flight … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-Our%20Perseverance%20Rover%20Takes%20up%20Residence%20on%20Mars%20on%20This%20Week%[email protected]%20%E2%80%93%20February%2020,%202021

Watch live as Northrop Grumman launches its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.  Liftoff is targeted for 12:36 p.m. EST from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The “S.S. Katherine Johnson” Cygnus spacecraft is named after Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician whose love of numbers helped send astronauts into Earth’s orbit and then to the Moon! This mission will bring with it 8,000 pounds of cargo including several technology development demonstrations, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbiting laboratory.

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover landed on the Red Planet Thursday, nearly seven months after its liftoff from the Space Coast. Perseverance launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket on July 30, 2020, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Its target: the Jezero Crater, where it will look for signs of past life on Mars. Kennedy Space Center recently completed the second phase of an ongoing project to plant vegetation on about 4 and a half miles of dunes along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The sandbanks protect the center’s critical space facilities, launch infrastructure, workforce, and wildlife from severe weather threats like hurricanes and tropical storms.

Watch an epic journey unfold on Thursday, Feb. 18 as our Perseverance rover lands on Mars. To reach the surface of the Red Planet, the rover has to survive the harrowing final phase known as Entry, Descent, and Landing. Only then can the rover – the biggest, heaviest, cleanest, and most sophisticated six-wheeled robot ever launched into space – search Jezero Crater for signs of ancient life and collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth. Tune in to a live video feed of key landing activities and commentary from Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A NASA rover has landed on Mars in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet. (Feb. 18) Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.com/APNews Google+: https://plus.google.com/115892241801867723374 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ ​ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8da7ae7c931d4f0d920c2d3b6484e13e

This week the Mars Perseverance rover will attempt to land on the Martian surface. On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore NASA’s latest rover and its red planet mission with NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green. Why send another rover to Mars? You’ll learn how previous rover missions inform the next. Jim tells us about the necessary redundancies that are in place when building a rover. Discover why “enabling the future” is an important aspect of the Perseverance mission.  You’ll learn how Perseverance will land on the surface of Mars and how rover landing procedures have evolved over time. Jim gives details on the robotic helicopter, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, attached to the Perseverance rover. Then, it’s time to dive into some fan-submitted Cosmic Queries. Were there any instruments Jim wanted on the rover that didn’t make it? Find out how Perseverance’s microphones will make us able to listen to Mars for the first time. Will there be any live footage of Perseverance? What will we see on camera? Jim explains Perseverance’s sampling mission and why we might be able to find signs of past life in the rocks beneath the surface.  Lastly, we explore how NASA picks a landing spot for each rover. And, what happens to all the other rovers on Mars? Is Perseverance one of the first steps toward humans terraforming Mars? All that, plus, we discuss the expanding collection of rovers being launched from all over the globe and what Martian exploration will look like going forward.  Thanks to our Patrons Nina Barton, Yancey L Sanford, Tyrel Carson, Peter Jacobs, Laura Inger, Samuel Watts, Joshua Allen, Tom Hegedosh, Connor Haberland, and Abhay Joshi for supporting us this week. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/startalkradio FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to StarTalk: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/startalkradio?sub_confirmation=1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/startalkradio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StarTalk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startalkradio/ About StarTalk: Science meets pop culture on StarTalk! Astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities & scientists discuss astronomy, physics, and everything else about life in the universe. Keep Looking Up! #StarTalk #NeildeGrasseTyson

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On February 18, 2021, the Perseverance Mars Rover will touch down on the Red Planet. The rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth. Similar in size to a car, Perseverance is the heaviest rover we've ever sent to the surface of Mars, carrying a variety of out-of-this-world experiments that will help prepare us for future human exploration. Producer/Editor: Lacey Young Music: Universal Production Music

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Here's a look at the Soyuz launch scheduled for Sunday February 14th sending Progress MS-16 (Progress 77p) to the ISS. I'll briefly cover what to expect from the launch, what Progress will do when it reaches the Space Station & where to go to watch it. Built in Kerbal Space Program with stock KSP parts. Nasa's Youtube Channel(Launch Livestream): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ Want updates on upcoming launches? Hit the subscribe button and follow me on twitter at: https://twitter.com/SFMadeSimple Wanna fly this mission in KSP? Download the .craft file here: (Link Coming Soon) #Soyuz #ProgressMS16 #ISS #KerbalSpaceProgram

A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle will launch the Progress MS-16 spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station (ISS Progress 76 mission) on 15 February 2021, at 04:45 UTC (09:45 local time; 14 February, 23:45 EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos Soyuz-2.1a ready to launch Progress MS-16 Союз-2.1а готовый к запуску Прогресс МС-16 #ProgressMS16 #ПрогрессМС16

In this week's TMRO:News epicsode Ryan gets you up to speed with Starship SN9's spectacular test flight, a duo of private and public Crew Dragon missions, and a few Starlink satellites getting frickin' laser beams. Jared takes a look at the year ahead and some of the events you should get your popcorn popped and ready for. Ryan highlights Blueshift Aerospace, a group pushing hybrid rocket engine development, the Space Launch System getting a second Green Run, and our Space Traffic to wrap it up. You can always help out the shows of TMRO by becoming a member here: https://www.youtube.com/user/TMRO/join Continue the conversation by joining TMRO on Discord: https://discord.gg/qdZAdsX6 GROUND LAUNCH SEQUENCER 00:00 | Intro 00:18 | SpaceX Update w/Ryan Caton 05:14 | Spaceflight events in 2021 you should get excited for 19:32 | Blueshift Aerospace pushes hybrid rocket development 21:14 | SLS Green Run 2: RS-25 Boogaloo 22:15 | Space Traffic 23:40 | Thank you Citizens of TMRO! 24:06 | See ya later! 24:21 | Ryan Bloopers