Green Comet Watching and More February Space and Astronomy Events - The New York Times

Green Comet Watching and More February Space and Astronomy Events

The changes of that flight could affect the timing of Crew-6, a launch of four astronauts to the I.S.S. complicated SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vessel that is to replace the four astronauts of Crew-5. Flying aboard Crew-6 are Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg of NASA, Andrey Fedyaev of Russia and Sultan Alneyadi, who will be the second astronaut from the Joint Arab Emirates to visit the station.

New Rocket Progress

The capable flights of new rockets (or first flights of existing rockets from new places) will be highlights of 2023.

January had a mixed open on this front. The company Rocket Lab had its capable flight from a launchpad on Wallops Island in Virginia when earlier trips from its New Zealand home base. But an effort by Virgin Orbit to launch the first orbital rocket from England imparted. The company ABL Space Systems also experienced an “energetic explosion” during its capable launch.

There are other rockets to keep an eye on in February. At the end of January, SpaceX completed a fueling test of Starship, its next generation orbital rocket prototype. The rocket is central to SpaceX’s ambitions of sketch to Mars and NASA’s plans to get astronauts back on the moon. The commercial may next conduct a “static fire” this month — where the 33 engines on the rocket’s booster stage fire once the ship itself is held in place. If that succeeds, it could set up the rocket’s first flight to orbit in March.

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