Below those numbers, is a timeline switchable between DAYS/DISTANCE since launch, a thumbnail of Webb's MOST RECENTLY COMPLETED deployment step marking its place in TIME or DISTANCE on its 30 day journey to L2 followed by details of the current deployment step shown with a larger image, info and links. While Webb is in flight to L2, it's journey is tracked numerically at the top of the page showing its progress in distance, speed, percentage of trip complete to L2. We truly are entering an era of launch abundance.This page tracks Webb on its journey from Earth to entry into its L2 halo orbit through all steps of its commissioning and finally to the delivery of its first science images. I cannot recall a time when four different US rockets launched during the same calendar day, but this probably won't be the last time, given all the development of new US boosters, large and small. The rocket launched at 23:09 UTC from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and was successful. Thursday evening the focus turned toward SpaceX and its Falcon 9 rocket, which was due to launch the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter spacecraft to the Moon. Finally, at 1337 UTC, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket launched the NS-22 suborbital space tourism mission. Then, at 10:29 UTC on Thursday, United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket sent a Space Based Infrared System satellite into orbit for the US Space Force. Starting at 05:00 UTC, Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle launched the NROL-199 mission into low Earth orbit for the US National Reconnaissance Office. Thursday was quite a day for US launch providers. US companies complete August 4 launch-a-palooza. A new website unveiled by the company recently shows launch vehicle renders similar to Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and New Shepard launchers. The company is also working on reusable liquid engines with the goal of developing recoverable launchers. Although Wednesday's orbital launch marks a big step forward, solid rockets appear to be only the start of CAS Space's ambitions. The parent, CAS, develops a range of spacecraft, including Beidou satellites, and has previously launched sounding rockets. CAS Space is a quasi-commercial spinoff from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chinese launch services provider CAS Space successfully placed six small satellites in orbit early Wednesday with the first launch of the Lijian-1 solid rocket, Space News reports. Lijian-1 is now the largest operational Chinese solid launcher, and CAS Space is also developing larger rockets. The 30-meter-tall Lijian-1 rocket can carry 1,500 kilograms of payload into a 500-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit.ĭerivative designs. We expect Union Carbide to honor its contractual commitments." At some point you have to wonder why local officials are so hellbent on building this spaceport. (submitted by zapman987 and Ken the Bin) Advertisement The County has indicated that it is ready, willing, and able to close. Last month, in a statement, Union Carbide said, "As a result (of the election), there is no longer an Option Agreement in existence between the County and UCC, and UCC does not intend to convey the property to the County pursuant to the prior Option Agreement." In filing the lawsuit, Steve Howard, Camden County's government administrator, wrote, "Union Carbide most certainly has a contract with Camden. So they've taken the land owner, Union Carbide Corporation, to court, News4Jax reports. Even so, Camden County commissioners refuse to give up the dream of building a spaceport that local residents don't want, and for which the land owner doesn't want to sell.
Then, the owner of 4,000 acres sought by the spaceport proponents said it would end an agreement to sell the land to backers of the Spaceport Camden project. First Camden County citizens voted overwhelmingly against a proposed spaceport in southeastern Georgia.
Georgia spaceport sues to force land sale. Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar. I've got plenty of coverage planned in the weeks ahead.Īs always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). I have covered this booster for a dozen years and I'm so ready for this to finally happen. Welcome to Edition 5.05 of the Rocket Report! Don't look now, but we could be fewer than four weeks away from the launch of NASA's Space Launch System rocket.
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