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NASA JPL prepares for year-round launches and mission milestones
NASA JPL shows, clockwise from bottom right, the launches of CADRE (whose engineering model is shown here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (shown in artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept), and SPHEREx. We are making preparations. Europa Clipper’s Mars Gravity Assist (artist’s concept). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems/Lockheed Martin Space As 2024 recedes into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already entering a busy…
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NASA Kennedy Ground Systems prepares hardware for Artemis II and beyond
A Bechtel National team uses a crane to lift Module 4 into position atop the mobile Launcher 2 tower chair on January 3, 2025, on the park grounds at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Module 4 is the first of seven modules that will be stacked vertically to form the approximately 400-foot launch tower used from the Artemis IV mission.…
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Blue Origin prepares for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket
This handout photo provided by Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A quarter-century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was finally ready for its first orbital journey on Sunday with a brand-new rocket that it hopes will shake up the…
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NASA prepares to test lunar terrain probe
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins takes Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot Harrison “Jack” Schmidt aboard NASA’s rover prototype at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/James Blair When astronauts return to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, they will benefit from having a human-rated, unpressurized LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle), allowing them to explore more of the Moon’s surface. This…
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