Boeing Starliner is gearing up for launch! Liftoff is scheduled for 10:52 am ET. Launch vehicle and spacecraft are both doing great, weather is beautiful, and the launch team is ahead of schedule.
NASA fährt Aktivität von "Hubble"-Teleskop herunter
Seit fast 35 Jahren umkreist das "Hubble"-Teleskop die Erde - doch die Altersschwäche der Technik macht sich bemerkbar. Die NASA schaltet nun einige Instrumente zur Ausrichtung des Observatoriums ab, um es länger betreiben zu können.
This flat terrain reminds me of the race around north Seitah, where we saw #Perseverance driving in excess of 200m and even 250m almost every sol, on its way to the Three Forks area.
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking W (270°) from RMC 52.5844
Sol 1170, LMST: 14:39:14
It's gentle excitement, as the REAL excitement will be later this summer. There'll be an English summary by your favourite JAXA science communicator afterwards 🙂
The #JAXA ISAS cleanroom facilities (where no more than 1000 mots of dust per cubic foot are allowed to hang in the air) have been expanded.
Because... we're getting another asteroid!
Part of the sample from asteroid Bennu that was returned by #NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will come to JAXA this summer as part of the agreement between the two teamed space agencies.
New Cosmos post (by me 🤸♀️ ) with a peek at the new facilities:
Preparations for NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch are in progress.
Launch time: 12:25 pm ET
"The two NASA astronauts aboard, flight commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, will test the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system, including launch, docking, and return to Earth. After a one-week stay docked to the International Space Station, the Starliner and crew will land under parachutes in the western United States."