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This list contains all spacewalks performed since the beginning of 2025 where an astronaut has fully, or partially left the spacecraft. [1]Since 1981, NASA has measured spacewalk duration from when the suits went to internal power until the start of airlock re-pressurization.
USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [13] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961
On September 11, 2023, NASA and NOAA awarded Ball Aerospace (later sold to BAE Systems Inc.) a $486.9 million contract to develop the GeoXO Sounder (GXS) instrument. [7] Unlike the payloads carried on GOES-12 through GOES-19, GeoXO satellites will not carry any instruments for observing space weather.
GOES-16's Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) is the first operational lightning mapper flown in geostationary orbit. The spacecraft also includes four other scientific instruments for monitoring space weather and the Sun. GOES-16's design and instrumentation began in 1999 and was intended to fill key NOAA satellite requirements published that ...
An illustration of what the GOES-T weather satellite would look like in space. (NOAA) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) fleet of weather-watching satellites is about to ...
NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website, "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information.
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut left the space station on Wednesday, after weeks of delays due to bad weather, including Hurricane Milton.
The primary task to retrieve the Space to Ground Antenna (SASA) was deferred to the next spacewalk because a stuck bolt on the electronics box prevented the antenna from being released from the FRAM. NASA Astronaut Anne McClain was Ground IV CAPCOM. [106] [107] [108] 462 4 May 20:00 7 hours, 11 minutes 03:11 Expedition 69 ISS Poisk