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Hyper-velocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) is a concept study by NASA on a spacecraft (8 tonnes) capable of detonating a nuclear bomb to deflect an asteroid, if it was on a collision course to Earth.
Athena was a proposed space mission that would have performed a single flyby of asteroid 2 Pallas, the third largest asteroid in the Solar System. [1] If Athena had been funded, it was planned to share the launch vehicle with the Psyche and Janus spacecraft and fly its own trajectory for a Mars gravity assist to slingshot into the asteroid belt.
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.32% and have been launched 442 times over 15 years, resulting in 439 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station ...
Mission planning and launcher selection (2017–2021) In 2017, Exploration Mission-2 was a projected single-launch mission of a Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B rocket with an Exploration Upper Stage , lunar Block 1 Orion spacecraft, and a payload insertion of 50.7 tonnes (55.9 short tons ; 112,000 lb ).
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...
Largest comsat in the world at time of launch until the launch of TerreStar-1 in 2009 by Ariane 5 and then Telstar 19V on 21 July 2018 by Falcon 9. 15 4 April 2009 00:31 421 AV-016 Cape Canaveral, SLC-41 USA-204 (WGS-2) Military comsat GTO Success [82] 16 18 June 2009 21:32 401 AV-020 Cape Canaveral, SLC-41 LRO/LCROSS: Lunar exploration HEO to ...
The Energia launcher was designed by the Soviet Union to launch up to 105 t (231,000 lb) to low Earth orbit. [8] Energia launched twice in 1987/88 before the program was cancelled by the Russian government , which succeeded the Soviet Union, but only the second flight payload reached orbit.
The following are a list of spacecraft with a mass greater than 8,000 kg (17,637 lb), or the top three to any other orbit including a planetary orbit, or the top three of a specific category of vehicle, or the heaviest vehicle from a specific nation.