Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. Photo credit: NASANASA and Boeing teams continue analyzing data from recent ground and spacecraft testing as they evaluate the Starliner spacecraft’s propulsion system during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission.| blogs.nasa.gov
Editor’s note: A previous version of this post identified the TMU as the telecommunications unit. It is the telemetry modulation unit.| blogs.nasa.gov
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard launches at 10:19 EDT Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Aubrey GemignaniPsyche mission controllers on Earth have received full acquisition of signal from the spacecraft, and the solar arrays are fully deployed. The spacecraft will be propelled by solar electric propulsion. The five-panel, cross-shaped solar arrays provide around 800 square feet of solar ...| blogs.nasa.gov