A rocket on a rocket … SPACEX -SINGENIURS installed two small draco rocket engines in the trunk of the Dragon spacecraft. The bow screws have their own dedicated floating tanks and will work independently of 16 other draco troules that are used to maneuver Dragon on his journey to the ISS. When NASA says it is the right time, SpaceX controllers will order the Draco bow screws to ignite the massive space station of 450 tons and accelerate them carefully. All in all, the re -boost kit can add about 20 mph or 9 meters per second to the already dizzy speed of the space station. Maintaining the job of the space station has previously been Russia's responsibility.
X-37B rides again with SpaceX. The reusable spaceship of the US Army shifted back in a job from Florida on top of a SpaceX rocket on 21 August, which will start a mission that will show how future spacecraft can navigate without trusting GPS signals, Ars reports. The core of the navigation experiment is what the Space Force calls the “the world's best -performing Kwantum Inertial Sensor ever in space.” The space aircraft also organizes a Laser-Inter satellite communication demo. This is the eighth flight of the X-37B room supplier and the third to launch with SpaceX.
Back to Leo … This mission launched a few hundred miles above the earth on a Falcon 9 rocket in a track with a low earth (Leo). This is a return to Leo after the previous X-37B mission flew on a Falcon Heavy Rocket in a much higher track. Many of the payloads of the space aircraft are classified, but officials usually identify a handful of unclassified experiments that fly on every X-37B mission. Past X-37B missions have also converted small satellites into track before they return to the earth for a runway that lands in Kennedy Space Center, Florida or Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Rocket Lab cuts the ribbon on neutron launch cushion. Launch Complex 3, the Mid-Atlantic regional space of the Virginia SpacePort Authority and the home base of the latest reusable rocket Lab, Neutron, is now completed and celebrated its official opening on Thursday, Wavy-TV reports. Officials said that Launch Complex 3 is ready to bring the largest orbital launch capacity in the history of the Spacport with Neutron, Rocket Lab's reusable launch vehicle, a medium -long vehicle, able to launch 33,000 pounds (15 tons) for commercial constellations, national security and inter -planetaire.
