NASA will host a prelaunch news briefing today at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss the Psyche mission. NASA and SpaceX completed a launch readiness review Tuesday, Oct. 10, resulting in a "go" for launch of the spacecraft that will study a metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The prelaunch briefing will air …
Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) Spare Radiator External Coolant Leak: Yesterday, video downlink to the ground and visual observation by the crew identified an external coolant leak in the spare radiator on the exterior of the MLM on the Russian Segment. This radiator was installed during RS EVA #56 last summer but was not in use …
The Expedition 70 crew worked throughout Tuesday on space physics and human research aboard the International Space Station. Two astronauts are also gearing up for a spacewalk on Thursday to determine if microorganisms can survive the harsh environment of outer space. Tuesday morning, the orbital residents focused their science activities on a variety of physics …
Officials from NASA, Arizona State University, and MIT will discuss the launch of Psyche and the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment during a science briefing at 12 p.m. EDT today. The media briefing will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and on the agency's website. The public may ask questions on social media during …
Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's 45th Weather Squadron predict a 20% chance of favorable weather conditions for Thursday's launch, with the anvil cloud, cumulous cloud, and surface electric field rules being the primary weather concerns. SpaceX is targeting 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, to launch NASA's Psyche spacecraft atop its Falcon …
At approximately 1 p.m. EDT Oct. 9, NASA flight controllers in mission control at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, using cameras on the International Space Station exterior, observed flakes emanating from one of two radiators on the Roscosmos Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM). The flight control team informed the crew aboard the space …
Payloads: ESA-Education Payload Operations (EPO): Video was recorded in support of the EPO Mogensen – Astronaut Logbook & Humans in Space Exhibition Day 3: How I View Earth. The ISS Education Program makes use of human spaceflight and the ISS as a means to capture the attention and the interest of students, to attract them …
As the astromaterials curation team at NASA's Johnson Space Center continues to collect the bonus asteroid Bennu particles located outside the OSIRIS-REx TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) head, they've also completed additional steps toward disassembly and reveal of the bulk asteroid sample inside the head. Curation scientists removed 14 circular witness plates from the top …
Spacewalk preparations topped the schedule for the Expedition 70 crew aboard the International Space Station on Friday. NASA managers previewed the spacewalks at the end of the week that will see astronauts exiting the orbital lab to collect microbe samples and service a variety of hardware. Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara of NASA and space station …
In the early hours of Oct. 6, workers transported NASA's Psyche spacecraft to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch. Earlier in the week, technicians completed encapsulation of the spacecraft, along with the DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) technology demonstration, inside a clean room at …
