KEY POINTS An attempt to launch last month was postponed hours before liftoff due to a small helium leak in ground equipment on SpaceX’s launchpad. As soon as Isaacman emerged from Crew Dragon, viewers began responding to the livestream, saying that the footage had to be fake. Yesterday, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman made history by … Read more
A team of private astronauts is scheduled on Thursday to perform the inaugural private spacewalk in orbit from a SpaceX capsule, evaluating a new series of spacesuits.The Polaris Dawn mission, SpaceX’s most recent and ambitious attempt to expand the limits of commercial spaceflight, launched from Florida on Tuesday. The crew, consisting of a billionaire entrepreneur, … Read more
A crew of four private astronauts ascended into space early Tuesday on a risky SpaceX mission to attempt the first-ever private spacewalk using the company’s new spacesuits and a redesigned spacecraft. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees were launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard … Read more
The launch of SpaceX’s four-person Polaris Dawn mission will be delayed by at least a day because of a helium leak in ground equipment at Kennedy Space Center, the company said on Tuesday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of its Crew Dragon capsule. The highlight of the mission is expected to come two days after … Read more
Last Thursday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Vandenberg Space Launch Complex in California with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites. And like the preceding 325 times before, the launch seemed to go off without a hitch: the rocket reached space and the first stage returned, landing on a drone ship in the … Read more
Nasa on Monday called off a spacewalk at the International Space Station after water leaked from an astronaut‘s spacesuit‘s cooling system.Astronauts Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt were preparing to exit the space station through the airlock hatch when an unexpected issue arose. As Dyson activated her spacesuit’s battery power, she noticed a malfunction in the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Chinese astronauts on the Tiangong space station have successfully completed a record-breaking spacewalk, lasting nearly eight hours, to enhance the station’s defenses against space debris, state media reported on Wednesday.Astronauts Jing Haipeng and Zhu Yangzhu carried out the extravehicular activity (EVA) on Tuesday, surpassing the previous duration record for Chinese spacewalks.The mission involved … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Polaris Dawn mission, the first of the program’s three human spaceflight missions, is set to launch in mid-2024. Supporting the crew at an altitude of 700 km above Earth, the newly developed Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit will provide vital aid during the historic first-ever commercial astronaut spacewalk.During the five days mission, the … Read more
