Space news weekly recap: SSLV maiden flight troubles to SpaceX replacing Russia

Space news weekly recap: SSLV maiden flight troubles to SpaceX replacing Russia

Last Sunday, ISRO’s maiden SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle) mission lifted off successfully. But something went wrong almost immediately when ISRO chairman S Somnath announced that the SSLV D1 mission suffered data loss. Before long, ISRO announced that the two satellites deployed by the launch vehicle would not be useful because they were put into […]

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Northrop taps rocket startup Firefly to replace Antares’ Russian engines

Northrop taps rocket startup Firefly to replace Antares’ Russian engines

Northrop Grumman is partnering with rocket startup Firefly Aerospace to build a new version of its workhorse Antares rocket without Russian-made engines that were cut off from the United States after the invasion of Ukraine, the company said on Monday. The new version of Antares, a rocket which NASA uses to ferry cargo to the […]

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How scientists fixed the Lucy probe’s solar array while it was in space

How scientists fixed the Lucy probe’s solar array while it was in space

NASA’s space probe Lucy was designed to be the first mission to the Trojan asteroids that move along Jupiter’s asteroid. The probe launched successfully in October, 2021, but it almost immediately ran into an unexpected problem. Data from the probe indicated that one of the solar arrays powering it, designed to unfurl like a hand […]

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