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The spacecraft will spend two 13.70-day orbits observing each sector, mapping the southern hemisphere of sky in its first year of operation and the northern hemisphere in its second year. [37] The cameras actually take images every 2 seconds, but all the raw images would represent much more data volume than can be stored or downlinked.
Evolution of the Satellite Tracking And Data Acquisition Network (STADAN). NASA CR-140390 - William R. Corliss (June 1974). Histories of the Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN), the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and the NASA Communications Network (NASCOM). NASA SP-2007-4233 - Sunny Tsiao (2007). "Read You Loud and Clear!"
NASA plans to launch the Artemis 2 mission on the Space Launch System, sending astronauts around the Moon on a ten-day lunar flyby. The first Indian crewed spaceflight, Gaganyaan-4, is planned for 2026. [1] China plans to launch Chang'e 7 to explore the lunar south pole in late 2026. [2]
The satellite is designed to act as a communication relay between Chang’e missions (including the Chang'e 6) and Earth. The satellite was announced as operational in April. In April, NASA launched a next-generation solar sail demonstration aboard a Rocket Lab Electron. [66] [67] ESA EarthCARE launched on May 28. Joint mission with JAXA.
STS-49 was NASA's maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched on May 7, 1992.The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite, Intelsat 603, which failed to leave Low Earth orbit two years before, attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it to its intended geosynchronous orbit.
STS-37, the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a six-day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Chandra X-ray ...
This is a chronological list of spaceflights to the International Space Station (ISS), including long-term ISS crew, short term visitors, replacement/rescue missions and mixed human/cargo missions.
Grim satellite images taken by NASA show the out-of-control Los Angeles wildfires from space. One image, taken by NASA’s Sentinel-2 satellite after the Palisades Fire erupted Tuesday morning ...