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[28 Oct 2023] New agreement enables U.S. launches from Australian spaceports

https://spacenews.com/new-agreement-enables-u-s-launches-from-australian-spaceports/ Jeff Foust October 27, 2023 Equatorial Launch Australia announced in April an agreement with Phantom Space that could see it host launches of Phantom’s Daytona rocket. Credit: ELA HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The governments of Australia and the United

[27 Oct 2023] Intuitive Machines targets launch to the Moon in mid-January

The completed Nova-C lander for the IM-1 mission is photographed in mid-October at Intuitive Machines’ facilities in Houston, Texas, ahead of it being shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida. Image: Intuitive Machines The first lunar lander aiming for a touchdown at

[26 Oct 2023] Marcus House on Lunar Exploration plans

YouTuber Marcus House has an interesting video up about various plans for Lunar Exploration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B57GDeirtJY “SpaceX’s Colossal Starship Superheavy launch vehicle! The largest rocket ever created, promises the ability to send massive payloads into orbit at an affordable cost, much

[25 Oct 2023] NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Is About To Flyby An Asteroid In Its First Major Test Flight

On November 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will visit its first asteroid, Dinkinesh. Their meeting will be a critical, ultra-brief encounter between two of the loneliest drifters in the Solar System. Lucy has already been flying through space for two years.

[24 Oct 2023] ULA sets Christmas Eve launch date for first Vulcan Centaur

Jeff Foust on SpaceNews has a story on the new target for ULA’s Vulcan Centaur launch: VEGAS — United Launch Alliance now plans to launch its first Vulcan Centaur rocket on Christmas Eve, carrying a commercial lunar lander. The company

[20 Jun 2023] ERPS #501

Some recent news items: – Satria launched yesterday – Internet for Indonesia– SpaceX launched Transporter-8 Jun 12th w/72 minisats – … and landed 200th F9 first stage.– Earlier that day, it launched 52 Starlink sats from VSFB– VO ceases operations–

[16 May 2023] ERPS #500

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[18 Apr 2023] ERPS # 498

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[03 Apr 2021] 2021 Annual Meeting

May 1st, 2021 @ 2:00 pm PDT Topic: E.P.R.S. Annual (Zoom) Meeting Time: May 1, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Our Annual Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91615793973?pwd=WmRVVENNRWk5RllWOWgrVUsxcmFwZz09 Meeting ID: 916 1579 3973 Passcode: E.R.P.S. Find your local number:

[30 May 2020] SpaceX and NASA Launch to Station

Saturday, May 30th saw the first Falcon 9/Crew Dragon flight to ISS carrying astronauts. The mission left Florida in a picture perfect flight and placed the 2 DM-2 astronauts into a 200 km preliminary orbit. Over the next 19 hours