Space Scout
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Space Scout
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Dedicated to providing accurate reporting, new perspectives, and amazing visuals of all things space. 🚀🛰
- NASA recently released new photos of the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The mission, set to launch aboard a @SpaceX Falcon Heavy in October 2024, will arrive at Europa in 2030, completing 44 flybys of the Jovian moon.
- ARTEMIS II UPDATE: The three propulsion modules of the Orion Launch Abort System slated to fly on Artemis II have been officially revealed at the Launch Abort System Facility. 📸by @NASA
- As first reported by Space Scout, Blue Origin has been conducting engine hot firings at Test Stand 4670 at the Marshall Spaceflight Center. A video uploaded by Alabama Representative Dale Strong to Instagram today showed a BE-3U conducting the first firing on the test stand.
00:00 - NASA and the @NASAGroundSys team stacked the Orion Capsule for Artemis I overnight. This was the final component to be stacked for the first Space Launch System rocket. The 322 ft. tall launch vehicle is currently expected to fly in early 2022.
- Over the past week @NASAGroundSys completed the Umbilical Release and Retract Test inside of the VAB. This test ensured that all 6 quick retract umbilical arms will successfully retract during the Artemis I launch. Take a look at all some of the views of the test!
00:00 - NASA has released a series of photos showing some of the lightning strikes that occurred at LC-39B during the Wet Dress Rehearsal. These are frames overlayed onto a daylight photo of SLS to better show where the lightning struck the pad. 📸credit @NASA
- As final preparations are underway for Artemis I, NASA loaded the missions "Commander" aboard Orion. Moonikin Campos will measure launch vibrations, acceleration loads, and radiation levels during the Artemis I mission. 📸credit @NASA
00:00 - Yesterday, NASA conducted a full flow test of the Ignition Overpressure and Sound Suppression (IOPSS) system on Mobile Launcher 1. This test slowly ramped up the water flow levels in the same manor as they would during the launch of an SLS rocket. 📸 NASA/Jamie Peer
00:00 - All of the work platforms have been retracted ahead of SLS' return to LC-39B. The 322 foot tall launch vehicle will make a second attempt to complete a wet dress rehearsal, a final simulated countdown ahead of its maiden launch currently scheduled for late this summer. 📸@NASA
- As NASA begins preparations for Artemis I's Wet Dress Rehearsal, work continues on the next SLS rocket. Now, Core Stage-2's LOX and LH2 tanks are being joined together, to complete the tank assembly of Artemis II's launch vehicle. 📸:@NASA
- While doing research for an upcoming article on Space Shuttle Enterprise, Space Scout writer @DerekdotSpace(@Delta_IV_Heavy) came across this video footage of Enterprise being delivered to SLC-6. Enterprise was the only shuttle to ever be stacked on the west coast launch pad.
00:00 - Ride along with United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket as it lofted the GOES-T weather satellite to orbit. (📸@NASA/@ulalaunch )
00:00 - The FAA has CANCELED #SpaceX's launch permission for today, according to this advisory: fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherd… #SN9
