The Rocket Lab Electron will start another busy week in spaceflight when it launches From New Zealand company site on Tuesday.
As the American naturalist Edwin Y. Tell once said, “All things seem possible in May.” Indeed, spring is in the air, and so is a group of missiles.
hurekan mMonitor the tropics Satellites prepared for launch
After a slight delay, Rocket Lab is set to present a pair of hurricane monitors tropix NASA satellites. Short for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a constellation of Smallsats (what a name), those Earth Observers The hardware will eventually include a small constellation of six low-Earth orbit satellites.
Using microwave radiometers, the cubes will measure temperature, humidity, and precipitation, as well as monitor clouds. The TROPICS constellation will help keep track Natural disasters – especially hurricanes. Rocket Lab’s small-lift Electron rocket is recruited for the mission, with lift off from the company’s launch pad in New Zealand specific on May 2 at 9:00 PM ET.
Russian spacewalk outside the International Space Station
This EVA was postponed from last week, but Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petlin are scheduled to give it another go on Wednesday. The duo will emerge from the comfortable confines of the International Space Station at 4:05 p.m. ET on May 3, with NASA Broadcasting Start a few minutes ago. During their spacewalk, Prokopyev and Petelin will use Canadarm2 and Europe’s new robotic arm to move an airlock to the Nauka module. The spacewalk is expected to last six hours.
Crew Dragon shuffling on the International Space Station
On Saturday, the International Space Station crew is scheduled to transfer SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft from the Harmony module’s peak port to the Harmony forward port. The spacecraft will be dismounted at 7:15 a.m. ET and remounted at 7:58 a.m. ET. NASA will provide a living Broadcasting From the space station shuffle.
Czechia prepares to sign the Artemis Accords
On May 3 at 10:00 AM ET, the Czech Republic will sign the Artemis AccordsSpace Agency Describe they. In the signing ceremony It will be NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, among others.
Two more Starlink batches
SpaceX plans to launch two Falcon 9 rockets this week to deliver more Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit, the first from Cape Canaveral SFS on May 4 at 3:29 a.m. ET and the second from Vandenberg SFB on May 6 at a time to be determined.
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