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SpaceX resumes parallel pad operations with Starlink v1.0 L25 mission May 4, 2021 Both of SpaceX’s Florida launch pads are back into Starlink launch flow as the company continues to deploy the satellite internet constellation with the Starlink v1.0 L25 mission lifting off from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 15:01 EDT / 19:01 UTC on Tuesday, 4 May. Following a relatively quiet stretch at 39A surrounding the crucial Crew-2 mission, another wave of Starlink satellite batches will now launch from both 39A and SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station over the next month.  This ra...

Local Produce: Night Lunch Night Lunch are a Dunedin duo of Liams made famous by the smash hit music video for their song House Full of Shit. The band features the uniquely minimalist combo of Liam Hoffman on drums and Liam Clune on a home-made instrument called a diddly bow. Hoffman has finished Uni but Clune has come back for round two. They’ve so far released two albums on Spotify: ‘Double Trouble’ and ‘Table for Two’. Clune initially just made the diddly bow for fun. “I had seen some things just on Youtube of people making these things, they looked fun to build and easy to m...

ULA completes Delta IV Heavy pad upgrades ahead of NROL-82 mission April 19, 2021 United Launch Alliance (ULA) has recently made pad upgrades to Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, ahead of the upcoming Delta IV Heavy launch of the NROL-82 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office scheduled for April 26 at 15:39 EDT / 19:39 UTC. The previous Delta IV Heavy mission, NROL-44 from SLC-37B at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was plagued by numerous issues, scrubs, and aborts that uncovered issues with the launch pad and its facilities. After rolling to the pad in...

NASA SLS Green Run testing complete, Boeing readies Core Stage for tow to Florida April 12, 2021 NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program and prime Core Stage contractor Boeing wrapped up the Green Run testing campaign on the Artemis 1 flight article at the Stennis Space Center and are readying the vehicle for its long-awaited shipment to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. After reviewing the performance of the vehicle from its second test-firing in mid-March, NASA and Boeing agreed that the stage could be reconfigured from testing to launch. While refurbishment activities continue,...

Aerojet Rocketdyne refurbishing RS-25 engines for Artemis 1 launch and production restart testing April 9, 2021 With the completion of another single-engine RS-25 development test, Aerojet Rocketdyne is now refurbishing five engines at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for their next use. After the second test firing of the Retrofit 2 series in the A-1 Test Stand on April 6, development engine 0528 is going through a streamlined refurbishment prior to its next firing as a part of the production restart Retrofit 2 test series. In parallel, the four RS-25 engines installed on the first Sp...