
William Harwood
Contributor, CBS News Space Updates at CBS News
CBS News Space Updates
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1 week ago |
tspantx.com | William Harwood
SpaceX loses control of Starship test flightAfter spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures in January and March, SpaceX launched another Super Heavy-Starship rocket Tuesday on the program’s ninth test flight, but ran into fresh problems that resulted in the loss of both stages before they could carry out controlled descents to splashdown.
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1 week ago |
cbsnews.com | William Harwood
Breaking down the latest space launch mishaps With Federal Aviation Administration approval, SpaceX readied a gargantuan 400-foot-tall Super Heavy-Starship for its 9th test flight Tuesday — a launch featuring multiple upgrades in the wake of spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures during the previous two flights in January and March.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | William Harwood
On the eve of his 70th birthday, Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, and two cosmonaut crewmates packed up for a fiery plunge back to Earth to close out a 220-day expedition to the International Space Station.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Jennifer Earl |William Harwood
The countdown has begun. Blue Origin's first all-women flight crew is shooting for the sky in West Texas on Monday if they get the all-clear for their rare space ride — blasting off on a journey 62 miles above Earth's surface to the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. The space launch window for the NS-31 mission, which marks the 11th human flight of Jeff Bezos' New Shepard program, is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. ET, depending on weather conditions.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Jennifer Earl |William Harwood
1 hour agoKaty Perry is set to launch into space as part of Blue Origin’s upcoming NS-31 mission, scheduled for April 14 at 8:30 am CDT from West Texas. She’ll be joined by journalist Gayle King, producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, scientist Amanda Nguyen, and Lauren Sánchez, fiancée of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. This marks the first all-female spaceflight crew since 1963, when the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space.
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F9/Starlink 6-69: Starlink deploy confirmed; a look back at the day's second launch: https://t.co/qdnSwu59Ed

F9/Starlink 6-69: Staging its second F9 launch in four hours, SpaceX fired off a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:28pm EST (2128 UTC) to put another 24 Starlink internet relay satellites into orbit; deploy from the 2nd stage is expected

F9/Starlink 6-69: I said earlier the Starlink 6-69 launch is targeted for 4:28pm EST (2128 UTC) today; that's based on data posted by CelesTrak (https://t.co/q8wiOOMVA1); the SpaceX website, which can be slow to update, says T-0 is 4:02pm; FYI

TSKelso: @Starlink UPDATE #3: @SpaceX is now targeting the @Starlink Group 6-69 launch from Cape Canaveral on 2024-11-11 at 21:28:00 UTC: https://t.co/UtoNRnEpJo. Deployment of 24 satellites is at 22:33:14.800 UTC. Data for 7 backup launch opportunities … https://t.co/oTNid5iJvF