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Story of the week
A pair of Rocket Lab - made spacecraft are about to embark on a two - step journey . The first step is the 55 - hour , 2,500 - mile reach from California to the launch web site at Cape Canaveral . The second step ? Just 11 months and 230 million mile to Mars .
Even more exciting — the mission , commission by NASA , with scientific loading from UC Berkeley ’s Space Sciences Laboratory and orbiter bus leave by Rocket Lab , will end up costing just one - tenth of other orbiter military mission to the crimson planet . ESCAPADE will launch on Blue Origin ’s New Glenn in October , but it will be the first launching of that fomite , so the particular date could get pushed back . If they omit the window , we ’ll have to wait 26 months for ESCAPADE to establish .
Scoop of the week
OK , this is NOT a pocket . But I did n’t see anyone else covering the subject , so you might say it ’s a spot of an exclusive . And that ’s aboutthe draft environmental assessment for Stoke ’s launch padthat the U.S. Space Force released last month . These regulatory document are farseeing and can be difficult to get through , but they do provide unparalleled perceptivity into a fellowship ’s near - term plans .
The major gist of the document is that Stoke is pursuing a “ phase programme approach , ” whereby the company first operates a completely expendable vehicle at a comparatively low launching cadence ( 10 launching / year ) . phase angle 2 , which would ask a supplemental environmental analysis and is not considered in this drawing document , would necessitate the fully recyclable rocket engine .
What we’re reading
Now that the Starliner cosmonaut have been in scope for over 70 days ( even though the original mission was targeting just around a workweek ) , it can be hard to keep all the facts straight . I foundthis short explainer from CNBC ’s Michael Sheetzreally handy — send it to your inquiring friends and everyone else who is confused about just what is happening way up on the International Space Station .
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This week in space history
Instead of look back , I want to call your attention to some contemporary astronomy news : The next full moon will be a Blue Supermoon . “ Blue ” because it ’s the third full lunar month in a season of four full synodic month , and “ super ” because the moonshine will be within 90 % of its closest access to Earth . That entail it ’s going to be HUGE .
