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Rocket Report: Virgin Orbit flight ends quickly, Netflix’s hybrid rocket

Rocket Report: Virgin Orbit flight ends quickly, Netflix’s hybrid rocket

May 29, 2020 2 mins, 42 secs

Yes, we are entering our third year of producing this weekly report, and we hope to celebrate this weekend with a Crew Dragon launch.

May 25 marked the third anniversary of the company's first launch attempt, when its Electron rocket made it to space but not all the way to orbit due to a software error.

Historic Crew Dragon launch scrubs due to weather.

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft Wednesday a little less than 17 minutes before liftoff, Ars reports.

It's just part of the deal." There were no technical issues with Dragon or the rocket.

In an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station on Monday, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin acknowledged that the Russian space corporation would lose money when NASA stops buying Soyuz crew seats.

Before the launch of Crew Dragon, NASA invited people to attend the launch "virtually" with a number of online activities.

Two key pieces of hardware needed for NASA's next Mars rover—an Atlas rocket booster and sterile components of the rover's sample collection system—arrived at Cape Canaveral ahead of the mission's scheduled launch July 17.

After unloading the booster from the cargo jet, ULA moved the rocket into the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center for post-shipment checks, Spaceflight Now reports.

The first stage of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Skid Strip runway May 18 aboard a Ukrainian-built Antonov An-124 transport plane.

ULA typically delivers rocket hardware launch sites using the company's oceangoing vessel named "RocketShip." But the vessel recently ferried Delta 4 rocket cores to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and was not available for the Atlas V shipment to Florida.

China's Mars rocket also arrives at its launch pad.

China is gearing up to launch its Tianwen-1 Mars mission following the delivery of a Long March 5 launch vehicle to Wenchang launch center, SpaceNews reports.

Previous Long March 5 launch campaigns have taken two months, meaning launch can be expected in late July.

China wants to launch a lot of Long March rockets.

The first module for the Chinese space station will launch next year, said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's human spaceflight program.

Launch of the Tianhe core module on a Long March 5B could take place at Wenchang in early 2021.

The intensive launch plan was revealed following the successful test flight of the Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket May 5.

The missions will be conducted using Long March 5B, Long March 2F, and Long March 7 launch vehicles.

Netflix's Space Force uses an interesting rocket.

One of the central tensions of the new show's first episode involves whether or not to launch Space Force's first big mission, a satellite, on its "Epsilon" rocket, Ars reports.

(For the record, there is a real-world Epsilon rocket, a relatively small booster developed by the Japanese Space Agency.) It is a big, heavy-lift booster that apparently requires low humidity to launch

Space Force's rocket appears to be the love child of two real-world rockets: an Atlas V rocket core (which is built by United Launch Alliance) and two side-boosters that look strikingly like Falcon 9 (SpaceX) first stages with a single engine

May 29: Long March 11 | CX-6-01 satellite | Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China | 20:03 UTC

May 30: Falcon 9 | Crew Dragon | Kennedy Space Center, Fla.| 19:22 UTC

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