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  • International Space Station to renew spacewalks, six months after incident

    NASA has greenlit spacewalks exterior of the International Space Station after a flight readiness evaluation. Spacewalks have been suspended for practically seven months since March 23 when a small quantity of water was present in ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer’s helmet.

    “Crew safety is the top priority of NASA and our international partners. I’m proud of the space station and ground teams’ work to keep our crew members safe, for taking the time necessary to close out the investigation, and for continually findings ways to mitigate risks in human spaceflight,” mentioned Kathryn Lueders, affiliate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, in a press assertion.

    After Maurer’s spacewalk months in the past, the crew on the area station instantly eliminated his helmet and labored with NASA’s floor assist workforce to collect information on the problem. The American area company categorised the occasion as an in depth name and declared a cease to all pending spacewalks.

    Samples of the water and among the {hardware} in Maurer’s go well with have been despatched again to Earth with the Russian Soyuz 65S and NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission. The complete spacesuit was then returned with the SpaceX CRS-25 mission for detailed evaluation.

    What did the investigation reveal?

    After finishing an in depth take a look at and teardown of the area go well with, and evaluating the water samples and go well with {hardware} to see what occurred, NASA groups confirmed that there have been no {hardware} failures with the go well with.

    According to the area company, it’s probably that the surplus water within the spacesuit was fashioned by condensation because of the built-in methods performing a number of settings for crew exertion and crew cooling on the similar time.

    Along with updating operational procedures, area station groups have developed new mitigation {hardware} to cut back the chance of such condensation resulting in water accumulation, whereas additionally absorbing any water if it seems. NASA’s administration groups accepted the return to regular operations after the brand new operational procedures and mitigation {hardware} was added.

  • Rs 34,856-cr for farm mortgage curiosity subvention

    To assist banks stick with it with crop loans prolonged to farmers at low charges and to make sure credit score to the farm sector, the Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the choice to pitch in with 1.5 per cent curiosity subvention to all monetary establishments for FY23 and FY24.

    Under the Interest Subvention Scheme (ISS), lenders provide a 3 per cent curiosity subvention on short-term agriculture loans of as much as Rs 3 lakh — initially provided at 7 per cent curiosity, and prolonged to farmers and people concerned in fisheries and animal husbandry — to debtors who repay the loans on time, successfully making them cheaper.

    The improve in curiosity subvention assist requires extra budgetary provisions of Rs 34,856 crore, which was cleared by the Union Cabinet.

    “This will help the farmers in an indirect way and will directly help the financial institutions to continue to keep extending the loans to farmers, in the wake of revision of repo rates by the RBI,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur stated whereas briefing the media after the Cabinet assembly.

  • China to ship subsequent house station crew in June

    According to sources, China is about to launch three extra astronauts to its latest house station in June.

    China will launch three extra astronauts to its latest house station in June. (Representational Photo: AFP)

    China will launch three extra astronauts to its latest house station in June after the most recent crew returned this weekend following a six-month keep in orbit, an official stated Sunday.

    The crew of the Shenzhou 14 capsule will spend six months on the Tiangong so as to add two modules to the station, Hao Chun, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, advised a information convention.

    China’s bold house program launched its first astronaut into orbit in 2003, landed robotic rovers on the moon in 2013, and on Mars final yr. Officials have mentioned a attainable crewed mission to the moon.

    The core module of the Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace, was launched in April 2021. Plans name for finishing building this yr.

    The Wentian module shall be launched in July and the Mengtian module in October, Hao stated.

    Near the tip of the Shenzhou 14 crew’s mission, three extra astronauts shall be launched aboard Shenzhou 15 for a six-month keep, Hao stated. He added that the 2 crews would overlap for 3 to 5 days, marking the primary time the station has six folks aboard.

    On Saturday, the crew of Shenzhou 13 landed within the Gobi desert within the northern area of Inner Mongolia.

    During the mission, astronaut Wang Yaping carried out the primary spacewalk by a Chinese lady. Wang, commander Zhai Zhigang and crewmate Ye Guangfu additionally beamed again physics classes for highschool college students.

    China was the third nation to launch an astronaut into house by itself after the previous Soviet Union and the United States. Tiangong is China’s third house station following predecessors launched in 2011 and 2016.

    The authorities introduced in 2020 that China’s first reusable spacecraft had landed following a check flight however no images or particulars have been launched.

    China is excluded from the International Space Station resulting from U.S. unease that its house program is run by the ruling Communist Party’s army wing, the People’s Liberation Army.

  • Space station’s first all-private astronaut workforce docked to orbiting platform

    The first all-private workforce of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) arrived safely on the orbiting analysis platform on Saturday to start a week-long science mission hailed as a milestone in industrial spaceflight.

    The rendezvous took place 21 hours after the four-man workforce representing Houston-based startup firm Axiom Space Inc lifted off on Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, using atop a SpaceX-launched Falcon 9 rocket.

    The Crew Dragon capsule lofted to orbit by the rocket docked with the ISS at about 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT) on Saturday as the 2 area autos had been flying roughly 250 miles (420 km) above the central Atlantic Ocean, a dwell NASA webcast of the coupling confirmed.

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    The closing strategy was delayed by a technical glitch that disrupted a video feed used to watch the capsule’s rendezvous with ISS. The snafu compelled the Crew Dragon to pause and maintain its place 20 meters away from the station for about 45 minutes whereas mission management trouble-shooted the difficulty.

    With docking achieved, it was anticipated to take about two hours extra for the sealed passageway between the area station and crew capsule to be pressurized and checked for leaks earlier than hatches could be opened, permitting the newly arrived astronauts to come back aboard ISS.

    The multinational Axiom workforce, planning to spend eight days in orbit, was led by retired Spanish-born NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, 63, the corporate’s vice chairman for enterprise growth.

    His second-in-command was Larry Connor, an actual property and know-how entrepreneur and aerobatics aviator from Ohio designated because the mission pilot. Connor is in his 70s however the firm didn’t present his exact age.

    Rounding out the Ax-1 crew had been investor-philanthropist and former Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe, 64, and Canadian businessman and philanthropist Mark Pathy, 52, each serving as mission specialists.

    Stibbe grew to become the second Israeli to fly to area, after Ilan Ramon, who perished with six NASA crewmates within the 2003 area shuttle Columbia catastrophe.

    They shall be becoming a member of the present ISS occupants of seven common, government-paid area station crew members – three American astronauts, a German astronaut from the European Space Agency and three Russian cosmonauts.

    SCIENCE FOCUSED

    The new arrivals introduced with them two dozen science and biomedical experiments to conduct aboard ISS, together with analysis on mind well being, cardiac stem cells, most cancers and growing older, in addition to a know-how demonstration to supply optics utilizing the floor rigidity of fluids in microgravity.

    The mission, a collaboration amongst Axiom, Elon Musk’s rocket firm SpaceX and NASA, has been touted by all three as a serious step within the enlargement of space-based industrial actions collectively referred to by insiders because the low-Earth orbit financial system, or “LEO economy” for brief.

    NASA officers say the pattern will assist the U.S. area company focus extra of its assets on big-science exploration, together with its Artemis program to ship people again to the moon and in the end to Mars.

     

    While the area station has hosted civilian guests on occasion, the Ax-1 mission marks the primary all-commercial workforce of astronauts despatched to ISS for its meant objective as an orbiting analysis laboratory.

    The Axiom mission additionally stands as SpaceX’s sixth human area flight in almost two years, following 4 NASA astronaut missions to the area station and the “Inspiration 4” launch in September that despatched an all-civilian crew to orbit for the primary time. That flight didn’t dock with ISS.

    Axiom executives say their astronaut ventures and plans to construct a non-public area station in Earth orbit go far past the astro-tourism companies supplied to rich thrill-seekers by such corporations as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, owned respectively by billionaire entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

  • New movie studio to be in-built area by 2024

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Space Entertainment Enterprise (S.E.E), the corporate co-producing Tom Cruise’s upcoming area film, plans to launch a sports activities area and manufacturing studio in area by 2024.

    S.E.E. has unveiled plans to construct an area station module that accommodates a sports activities and leisure area in addition to a content material studio by December 2024, stories selection.com.

    Named SEE-1, the module is meant to host movies, tv, music, and sports activities occasions in addition to artists, producers, and creatives who need to make content material within the low orbit, micro-gravity surroundings. The services will allow the event, manufacturing, recording, broadcasting, and reside streaming of content material.

    S.E.E. intends to supply its personal content material and occasions within the module in addition to make it out there to third-parties.

    Axiom Space, who in January 2022 gained NASA’s approval to construct a business part of the International Space Station (ISS), will undertake the development of SEE-1. The module will dock on Axiom’s business arm, named Axiom Station, which will even host different business ventures, together with area tourism.

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    Axiom Station will then separate from the ISS in 2028. S.E.E., which was co-founded within the UK by entrepreneurs and producers Elena and Dmitry Lesnevsky, is presently planning a fundraising spherical.

    “SEE-1 is an incredible opportunity for humanity to move into a different realm and start an exciting new chapter in space,” stated Dmitry and Elena Lesnevsky in a press release.

    “It will provide a unique, and accessible home for boundless entertainment possibilities in a venue packed with innovative infrastructure which will unleash a new world of creativity. With worldwide leader Axiom Space building this cutting-edge, revolutionary facility, SEE-1 will provide not only the first but also the supreme quality space structure enabling the expansion of the two trillion-dollar global entertainment industry into low-Earth orbit.”

    “Axiom Station, the world’s first commercial space station, is designed as the foundational infrastructure enabling a diverse economy in orbit,” stated Michael Suffredini, president/CEO of Axiom Space.

    “Adding a dedicated entertainment venue to Axiom Station’s commercial capabilities in the form of SEE-1 will expand the station’s utility as a platform for a global user base and highlight the range of opportunities the new space economy offers.”

    “SEE-1 will showcase and leverage the space environment in an unprecedented way,” Axiom chief engineer Dr Michael Baine stated. “The inflatable module design provides for around six meters diameter of unobstructed pressurized volume, which can be adapted to a range of activities – including an onboard state-of-the-art media production capability that will capture and convey the experience of weightlessness with breathtaking impact.”

    Richard Johnston, COO of S.E.E. added: “From Jules Verne to ‘Star Trek,’ science fiction entertainment has inspired millions of people around the world to dream about what the future might bring. Creating a next-generation entertainment venue in space opens countless doors to create incredible new content and make these dreams a reality.”

  • International Space station provides launched with a pizza supply for 7

    By: AP | Cape Canaveral (florida) |
    August 11, 2021 12:57:06 pm
    Northrop Grumman’s newest area station supply consists of pizza for seven. The 3,700-kilogram cargo consists of recent apples, tomatoes and kiwi, together with a pizza package and cheese smorgasbord for the seven station astronauts.
    The firm’s Cygnus cargo ship rocketed away from Virginia’s jap shore Tuesday. It ought to attain the International Space Station on Thursday.

    Liftoff of @NorthropGrumman’s #Cygnus area freighter at 6:01pm ET at present! It will attain the station on Thursday for a seize at 6:10am with the #Canadarm2 robotic arm operated by @Astro_Megan. More… https://t.co/pl9k5pIJA6 pic.twitter.com/5a9rFRIry0
    — International Space Station (@Space_Station) August 10, 2021
    Also flying: a mounting bracket for brand new photo voltaic wings launching to the orbiting lab subsequent 12 months, a cloth simulating moon mud and dust that will likely be used to create gadgets from the area station’s 3D printer, slime mildew for a French academic experiment referred to as Blob and an infrared-detecting gadget meant as a prototype for future monitoring satellites.
    It is Northrop Grumman’s sixteenth provide run for NASA and its greatest load but. The firm’s Antares rocket hoisted the capsule from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
    “Aloha to the S.S. Ellison Onizuka,” Northrop Grumman mentioned through Launch Control minutes earlier than liftoff. The capsule was named for Hawaii’s Onizuka, the primary Asian American in area who died within the 1986 Challenger launch catastrophe.
    NASA’s different shipper, SpaceX, will observe with a cargo run in just a few weeks.
    The area station is at the moment residence to 3 Americans, two Russians, one French and one Japanese.

  • “There is contact!” -Russia’s new Nauka house module docks with ISS

    Russia upgraded its capabilities on the International Space Station on Thursday after its new Nauka module, set to function a analysis lab, storage unit and airlock, efficiently docked with it after a nervy journey from Earth.
    A stay broadcast from Russia’s house company, Roscosmos, confirmed the module, a multipurpose laboratory named after the Russian phrase for ‘science’, docking with the ISS at 1329 GMT, a couple of minutes later than scheduled.
    “According to telemetry data and reports from the ISS crew, the onboard systems of the station and the Nauka module are operating normally,” Roscosmos mentioned in a press release.
    “There is contact!!!” Dmitry Rogozin, the top of Roscosmos, wrote on Twitter moments after the docking.
    Since it launch final week from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, the module had suffered a collection of glitches that had raised issues about whether or not the docking process would go easily.

    Thursday’s growth suggests Russia is concerned with sustaining the ISS regardless of earlier feedback from Rogozin who final month urged Moscow would withdraw from it in 2025 until Washington lifted sanctions on the house sector that he mentioned had been hampering Russian satellite tv for pc launches. learn extra
    Launched in 1998, the ISS is a multinational mission and contains two segments, a Russian one and one other one utilized by the United States and different house companies.
    “After its commissioning, the Russian segment will receive additional room for arranging workplaces, storing cargo and housing water and oxygen regeneration equipment,” Roscosmos mentioned its assertion.