Deorbit Burn News Today

Its Highstakes Journey Back To Earth. Final goahead. So if all goes well, well see it land back on solid ground in New Mexico within the very hour. Ill be your pilot for live coverage here. Cnn has it all happens before us. Now remember, the capsule is coming back empty, uncrewed and nasa speak. And yes, remembering it correctly, this is the same capsule that wasnt supposed to be uncrewed. It was supposed to have two astronauts coming back home in it, Sonny Williams and butch wilmore. And they a...

SpaceX fired one of the six Raptor engines on its Ship 26 Starship prototype on Friday (Oct. 20) in a deorbit burn test in South Texas.

Trajectory that its designed to follow. it corrects for the winds. it corrects for altitude. when you get to space, the ground can control or it can be an automated system that circularizes the orbit. same thing with the orbit burn. it can be done from the inside. it can be done from the ground. so pretty much when you have an inexperienced crew, you want to make sure you can take control over all the systems, control anything you need to from the ground, or have it automated from on board so th...

What is that transition like for them? >> imagine, youre traveling around the earth at a speed of, you know, 17,500 miles per hour. youre higher than the international space station. and then you slowly start this deorbit burn and begin the process of reentering the ea earths atmosphere. and when doug hurley and bob benkin, who were the crew of demo 2 -- and these are professional nasa slastronauts, military test pilots, people who have been training their whole lives for this. when they experie...

We are keeping watch on a live feed where the capsule is right now in this entire re-entry program. at 5:32 the forward hatch was closed. at 6:30 the deorbit burn ended. by 7:02 those parachutes are expected to deploy. the space x inspiration four mission containing the first all civilian team took off from cape canaveral wednesday evening. they quickly reached the parted distance from the -- farthest distance from the earth, beyond the space station and the hubbell telescope. on board we have a...

But the landing, you know, the deorbit burn, the high temperatures encountered as it comes through the earths atmosphere, that is all high-stakes stuff too. its just that we dont get to see it as well as we do the lift-off. >> thats correct because transmission is not easily transmitted when it is coming down because of the atmospheric effects that go on during the landing process, so -- but the astronauts as clayton will tell you they surely know whats going on. >> jon: so clayton, what are the...

Vessel and doing some medical checks, make sure the crew is safe and healthy. and then they will hop on a helicopter and head back to florida. >> yeah, well, now that jared, hayley, sian and chris are safely back home on earth, and getting checked out by our medical team were going to wrap up our live coverage of their historic return. we started this about two hours ago. successful trunk separation, completed deorbit burn. got through the periods of both communications. both sets of chutes depl...

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Diameter to the six ton satellite that is spiraling out-of-control and headed toward earth as we speak. where this will land, still no one at nasa can tell us. >> the object is uncontrolled so behaving in ways that are random and it is frustrating not to predict with accuracy but it is known this is a problem. >> unlike 20 years ago when the satellite was launched in 1991, now they are built with an extra engineo they can be steered when they start the deorbit burn as they did with the shuttle m...

shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttles engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. theyll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosp...