NASA Prepares Trio of Spacecraft for Landmark September Launch

NASA is set to embark on a landmark mission later this month with the launch of three groundbreaking spacecraft designed to deepen scientific understanding of the Sun, Earth’s outer atmosphere, and the impact of space weather on modern technology. The scheduled late-September liftoff will carry the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO-L1).

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Starship Triumphs: A New Era of SpaceX As It Nails IFT-10

SpaceX finally notched a major win on Tuesday evening, pulling off what appeared to be the most successful Starship test flight to date after three consecutive failures. The company’s massive Super Heavy-Starship rocket system, the most powerful launch vehicle ever built, soared from Starbase in Texas at 6:30 p.m. Central Time (7:30 p.m. ET), and more than an hour later, both the booster and upper stage splashed down in their designated oceans as planned.

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NASA Set to Unveil New Astronaut Class as Artemis II Countdown Nears

ASA is preparing to introduce its newest class of astronaut candidates next month, a symbolic step as the agency edges closer to its first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century. The reveal comes just weeks before a series of briefings designed to build momentum for Artemis II, the mission slated to send astronauts around the Moon no later than April 2026.

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