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Meet the SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts launching to the ISS on March 2 – Space.com

Posted: March 2, 2024 at 2:39 am

Four new astronauts are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday (March 2) as part of NASAs SpaceX Crew-8 mission.

Crew-8, the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will lift off Saturday at 11:16 p.m. EST (0416 GMT on March 3) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida using the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, situated atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will then dock with the orbiting lab the following day around 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT).

The crew includes NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (commander), Michael Barratt (pilot) and Jeanette Epps (mission specialist) along with mission specialist Alexander Grebenkin, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Over the course of their six-month stay in space, the astronauts will conduct more than 200 scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including research that will support human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit.

Related: SpaceX rolls out rocket, capsule for Crew-8 astronaut launch (photos)

Saturday's launch will be the first for all of the crew members but Barrett, who will be making his third flight and second long-duration stay on the space station. You can learn more about each of them below.

Matthew Dominick, Crew-8's commander, is a 42-year-old U.S. Navy test pilot who joined NASA as an astronaut candidate in 2017. Dominick has more than 1,600 hours of flight time in 28 aircraft, 400 carrier-arrested landings and 61 combat missions on his resume. When Dominick was selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2017, he was at sea on the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) serving in the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator and a department head for Strike Fighter Squadron 115.

Dominick was born and raised in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, where his parents still live today. He is married to Faith Dominick, with whom he shares two daughters, according to his biography from NASA. Dominick has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of San Diego with minors in physics and mathematics. Following his graduation in 2005, he was commissioned through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and attended Primary Flight Training at Naval Air Station Pensacola. He was designated a naval aviator in 2007.

He completed F/A-18 Super Hornet training and then served two deployments with Strike Fighter Squadron 143 (VFA-143) before attending the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he earned a Master of Science in systems engineering. He later graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and was assigned to Air Test Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23), where he served as the developmental flight test project officer for a variety of carrier suitability test programs. Having completed two years of training as an astronaut candidate in 2019, Dominick is now an active-duty U.S. Navy astronaut. While waiting for his chance to fly in space, he was also promoted to Navy Commander in 2020.

Michael Barratt, Crew-8's pilot, is a 64-year-old physician specializing in aerospace medicine. He served as a flight surgeon for NASA before he was selected as an astronaut candidate in 2000. Barratt has played a pivotal role in developing NASA's space medicine initiatives for both the Shuttle-Mir Program and the International Space Station (ISS).

Barratt was born in Vancouver, Washington, but considers Camas, Washington, to be his hometown. He has a Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University and is board-certified in both internal and aerospace medicine. He is married to Dr. Michelle Lynne Sasynuik and has five children, according to his official biography.

Barratt has spent a total of 212 days in space across two prior spaceflights, including Expedition 19/20 in 2009 which saw the transition from three to six permanent ISS crew members and STS-133 in 2011, near the end of NASA's Space Shuttle program. Barratt served as Flight Engineer for Expedition 19/20 and performed two spacewalks during this mission. The long-duration flight mission involved crews studying bone loss, cardiac atrophy, immune system changes and nutritional dynamics in microgravity. STS-133, Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission, delivered the Permanent Multipurpose Module and fourth Express Logistics Carrier to the space station.

Barratt managed the Human Research Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center from January of 2012 through April of 2013 and has provided expertise on human factors and space medical risks for newly developed space vehicles for the Commercial Crew and Artemis Programs.

Jeanette Epps, Crew-8's mission specialist, was selected as an astronaut candidate in 2009. Prior to joining NASA, she worked at Ford Motor Co. and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Hailing from Syracuse, New York, the 53-year-old holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from LeMoyne College and a Master of Science as well as a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. As a NASA Fellow during graduate school, Epps authored several highly referenced journal and conference articles, according to her NASA biography.

During her time at Ford Motor Company, she received both a provisional patent and a U.S. patent for her research. She later worked as a technical intelligence officer for the CIA. Since becoming an astronaut, she has served on the Generic Joint Operation Panel working on space station crew efficiency, as a crew support astronaut for two expeditions and as lead capsule communicator at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Epps was previously assigned to NASA's Boeing Starliner-1 mission, but was reassigned due to delays concerning the mission's development, making Crew-8 her first spaceflight. During the upcoming mission, she will assist with monitoring the spacecraft for launch and re-entry.

Alexander Sergeyevich Grebenkin, Crew-8's mission specialist, served in the Air Force of the Russian Armed Forces before joining Roscosmos as a cosmonaut candidate in 2018.

Grebenkin graduated from Irkutsk High Military Aviation School in Irkutsk, Russia, majoring in engineering, maintenance and repair of aircraft radio navigation systems. The 41-year-old also has a degree in radio communications, broadcasting, and television from Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, according to a statement from NASA.

During his time in the Russian Armed Forces, Grebenkin worked as an aircraft readiness technician and engineer to prepare aircraft, later serving as head of the regulations and repair group of a military unit. Since becoming a cosmonaut, he has participated in mock missions on Earth, with Crew-8 representing his first spaceflight. He will serve as flight engineer during Expeditions 70/71 on the space station.

Editor's note: This story was updated at 1:20 a.m. ET on Feb. 29 with news of the launch delay to March 2.

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SpaceX’s talks with Vietnam over Starlink service stalled over ownership rule report – Light Reading

Posted: March 2, 2024 at 2:39 am

Talks between SpaceX and the Vietnamese government for Starlink satellites to provide broadband satellite in the Southeast Asian country reportedly hit a snag over foreign ownership regulation.

Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reported that discussions between the two parties had been put on hold since November after the country's amended telecommunications law, which will take effect in July, did not ease the existing provision on foreign ownership.

SpaceX had been seeking an exception to the rule restricting foreign ownership to a non-controlling 50% stake in telecommunication companies with network infrastructure.

Vietnam has been looking into satellite-based broadband Internet services to improve coverage in its mountainous and underserved areas that cannot be reached by terrestrial networks. It is also planning to upgrade its Internet infrastructure in the aftermath of recent outages at its five major underwater fiber-optic cables.

Reuters said SpaceX and Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) had held several meetings for months from at least the middle of last year until November 2023

The stalled talks led to the interruption starting in November of Starlink's previously unreported pilot services for Vietnam's coast guard, which used the satellites to guide drones in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand.

Sources told Reuters they do not know when talks would resume.

New regulatory hurdles

Aside from the limitation on foreign ownership, foreign satellite service providers face new regulatory hurdles before entering the Vietnamese market.

According to the Vietnam New Agency, a draft decree that will implement the revised law added a requirement for foreign satellite service providers to set up a local ground gateway connected to the public telecoms network. Foreign satellite providers must ensure that all traffic generated by satellite subscriber terminals in Vietnam must pass through this local ground gateway.

The draft decree classifies satellite broadband services such as Starlink as cross-border services. The MIC, which is tasked to finalize the document after public consultation, considers cross-border satellite communications to be a risk in terms of data from Vietnamese Internet users being collected abroad and used illegally.

Furthermore, the draft decree specifies that foreign satellite service providers must meet capital and investment conditions. For example, the VNA said that contributed charter capital must be at least 30 billion Vietnamese Dong ($1.2 million), and total investment capital in the network must be at least VND100 billion ($4.2 million) in the first three years.

Foreign satellite service providers must also have a commercial agreement with a licensed domestic telecommunications enterprise and a technical plan to ensure information security, perform emergency prevention and shut off services when ordered to do so by relevant state agencies.

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SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle – Ars Technica

Posted: March 2, 2024 at 2:39 am

Enlarge / Starship launches on its second flight on November 18, 2023.

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A little more than three months after the most recent launch of a Starship vehicle, which ended with both the booster and upper stage being lost in flight, the Federal Aviation Administration has closed its investigation of the mishap.

"SpaceX identified, and the FAA accepts, the root causes and 17 corrective actions documented in SpaceXs mishap report," the federal agency said in a statement issued Monday. "Prior to the next launch, SpaceX must implement all corrective actions and receive a license modification from the FAA that addresses all safety, environmental and other applicable regulatory requirements."

SpaceX must still submit additional information to the FAA, which is responsible for the safety of people and property on the ground, before the agency completes its review of an application to launch Starship for a third time. The administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration, Kelvin Coleman, said last week that early to mid-March is a reasonable timeline for the regulatory process to conclude.

A launch attempt is likely to follow soon after.

In conjunction with Monday's announcement, SpaceX released details for the first time of what happened to cause the November 18 launch to go awry.

In this update, SpaceX noted that the Super Heavy first stage of the rocket performed nominally, with all 33 Raptor engines on this massive rocket igniting successfully. The booster then performed a full-duration burn to reach stage separation. At this point, the upper stage executed a successful "hot staging" maneuver in which the Starship stage separated from the booster while some of the booster's engines were still firing.

For the Super Heavy booster, the next step was to perform a series of burns to make a soft landing in the Gulf of Mexico. As part of the initial burn, 13 of the rocket's engines were intended to fire.

"During this burn, several engines began shutting down before one engine failed energetically, quickly cascading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly of the booster," SpaceX said. "The vehicle breakup occurred more than three and a half minutes into the flight at an altitude of ~90 km over the Gulf of Mexico."

The problem was subsequently linked to a problem with supplying liquid oxygen to the Raptor engines.

"The most likely root cause for the booster RUD was determined to be filter blockage where liquid oxygen is supplied to the engines, leading to a loss of inlet pressure in engine oxidizer turbopumps that eventually resulted in one engine failing in a way that resulted in loss of the vehicle," the company stated. "SpaceX has since implemented hardware changes inside future booster oxidizer tanks to improve propellant filtration capabilities and refined operations to increase reliability."

As Super Heavy was experiencing these problems, the six Raptor engines on the Starship upper stage were burning nominally and pushing the vehicle along a flight path intended to take it nearly two-thirds of the way around Earth before splashing down near Hawaii. However, at about seven minutes after liftoff, a large vent of liquid oxygen occurred. There was excess liquid oxygen on the vehicle, SpaceX said, to gather data representative of future payload deployment missions. It needed to be released before Starship splashed down.

"A leak in the aft section of the spacecraft that developed when the liquid oxygen vent was initiated resulted in a combustion event and subsequent fires that led to a loss of communication between the spacecrafts flight computers," the company said. "This resulted in a commanded shut down of all six engines prior to completion of the ascent burn, followed by the Autonomous Flight Safety System detecting a mission rule violation and activating the flight termination system, leading to vehicle breakup."

At the time, the vehicle had reached an altitude of 150 km, well into outer space, and had achieved a velocity of about 24,000 km/h. This is just short of orbital velocity, which is 28,000 km/h.

In its statement, SpaceX said it was implementing changes to the Super Heavy and Starship stages to account for these issues. The company is also seeking to improve the overall performance of Starship, with the addition of a new electronic Thrust Vector Control system for Starships upper-stage Raptor engines and more rapid propellant loading operations prior to launch.

SpaceX has four Starships in complete, or nearly complete, build stages. Should the next flight go smoothly, the company could begin to launch the world's largest rocket on a more frequent basis.

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SpaceX Starship: What Does the Future Hold? – Executive Gov

Posted: March 2, 2024 at 2:39 am

The SpaceX Starship is a historic breakthrough, providing high-technology systems for fast and secure spaceflight. With its promising features, the new spacecraft can help the federal government carry out its interplanetary missions. Lets take a deeper look into the SpaceX Starship and the future it holds.

Starship is a fully reusable spacecraft designed and created by SpaceX. This invention supports human exploration and missions beyond Earths orbit. Starship has the potential to transform long-distance Earth travel, satellite placement, cargo delivery, and human space exploration.

Starship is a flexible and powerful spaceship designed to transform space exploration and increase accessibility to interplanetary travel. It replaces SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.

Lets take a look at the fundamental specifications of the Starship.

The SpaceX Starship has two main components: the Starship Rocket and the Super Heavy Booster. These two components are integrated with the SpaceX Starship system to perform different missions, including cargo transport and satellite deployment.

The Starship Spacecraft is the upper part of the Starships system. The spacecraft is designed to carry the crew and passengers. The upper stave has a payload bay, crew compartments, and engines. It also features a heat shield that slows down the spacecraft and protects the passengers when reentering Earths atmosphere.

The Super Heavy Rocket, also known as the Super Heavy Booster, is the lower stage of the Starships system. The lower stage is designed to lift the starship spacecraft into space. The Super Heavy booster has several Raptor Engines installed, powered by methane and liquid oxygen. These engines generate force to propel the rocket off the ground. After launching, the lower stage detaches from the Starship spacecraft to return to Earth for further usage.

Fully Reusable. The Starship spaceships Super Heavy booster has been engineered for swift reuse, which contributes to a significant decrease in space travel expenses. Unlike the Falcon 9, which can reuse the booster only over ten times, Starships booster is designed to complete thousands of flights before any significant refurbishment.

Massive Payload Capacity. The Starships cargo and crew payload capacities are much bigger than those of the previous SpaceX spacecraft. In comparison, the Starships lower stage, Super Heavy, is almost as tall as the Falcon Heavys overall height.

Aerodynamic Design. Its aerodynamic shape is streamlined for atmospheric entry and reusability.

In-orbit Refueling. The Starship is built with onboard refueling features. It results in more efficient missions, reaching farther destinations compared to a spacecraft with a single fuel tank.

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Starship revolutionizes human space exploration. Here are the three primary uses of Starship.

The Starship is built to transport people on missions that take them beyond Earths orbit. It aims to carry astronauts to Mars, the Moon, and other planets in our solar system to conduct further studies, research, and development.

Moreover, the two-stage spacecraft can deploy satellites into Earths orbit and facilitate global internet coverage. It can be helpful for Earth observation and other satellite-based services.

Given its size of 160 ft tall and 30 ft in diameter, Starships payloads can carry a ton of cargo. Specifically, it allows supply missions to Moon bases, space stations, and other locations.

Point-to-point transportation on Earth is another feature of Starship. This fantastic feature allows transit to any global location in one hour or less.

In a 2022 CNBC article, SpaceX plans to use Starship for commercial space tourism, enabling the public to fly into space. The Starship has the potential to create jobs and draw in more tourists by offering space passenger transportation.

During the Starships return for a landing in 2023, multiple engines of the Super Heavy booster failed to light up properly. This incident led to an investigation by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

Last February 26, 2024, the FAA closed the investigation regarding SpaceXs Starship Super Heavy Orbital Test explosion. The FAA and the space firm agreed on new protocols for upcoming flights. So, whats next with SpaceX Starship?

SpaceX plans to test the Starship prototypes to improve their functionality, dependability, and design. The spacecrafts performance is demonstrated by carrying out more suborbital and orbital test flights, testing their launch, reentry, and landing.

SpaceX will soon get Starship back into operational status. It is set to start routine missions like crewed space exploration, satellite deployment, and potentially point-to-point Earth travel.

Future beyond-Earth orbit projects can bring SpaceX and NASA together. NASA can use the Starship for the Artemis Moon Mission to carry its team to the Moon and other beyond Earth destinations.

Commercial clients can utilize SpaceXs Starship services for satellite placement, cargo transportation, and space travel. Commercial services like contracting with private businesses may also be available soon.

SpaceX is a privately held business that has built a reputation for successfully launching a spaceship in low-Earth orbit. Elon Musk founded the firm in 2002 with the goal of lowering the cost of space transportation.

SpaceX develops, designs, and manufactures its rocket and spacecraft in facilities in Hawthorne, California, and Boca Chica, Texas.

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NASA, SpaceX target Saturday for launching 8th crew mission to space station – China Daily

Posted: March 2, 2024 at 2:39 am

In this photo released courtesy of NASA, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top is seen during sunset on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-8 mission on Feb 27, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US. [AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / NASA]

LOS ANGELES -- NASA and SpaceX are targeting Saturday to launch the eighth crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

The mission, codenamed "Crew-8," is the eighth rotational mission to the ISS for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the crew aboard a Dragon spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:16 p.m. Saturday Eastern Time, according to NASA.

The Crew-8 mission will carry NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, as well as Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos to the space station.

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