Another CubeSat mission called Moonlighter will serve as a testbed in orbit to test defenses against cyber threats. The spacecraft is about the size of loaf of bread, and once deployed from the space station, it will be part of an annual challenge where cyber security experts will attempt to hack the satellite.The Moonlighter mission, billed as the world’s first “hacking sandbox” in space, is a joint effort between Aerospace Corp., the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Space Force’s Space Systems Command.“We wanted to build something new from the ground up to fill gaps in cyber activities in space, where the vehicles to do cyber security testing in orbit have not existed,” said Aaron Myrick, Moonlighter project leader for Aerospace. “When we say it’s a sandbox, Moonlighter is like a playground where we provide the space and the tools for professional hackers to perform cyber exercises and test out new technology. We hope this will lead to more cyber-resilient architectures for future space missions.”
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsF9/CRS-28: Contact and soft capture coplete, at 5:54am EDT (0954 UTC)
Dragon due to depart ISS on June 27th
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Aug. 4 Antares • NG-19Launch time: TBDLaunch site: Pad 0A, Wallops Island, Virginia... Early 2024 Vulcan Centaur • Dream Chaser 1Launch time: TBDLaunch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA began a spacewalk at 9:25 a.m. EDT today to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1A power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure.Bowen, designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1), is wearing a suit with red stripes. Hoburg, designated extravehicular crewmember 2 (EV 2), is in an unmarked suit.
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 3:28 p.m. EDT after 6 hours and 3 minutes.Bowen and Hoburg completed all of their objectives to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1A power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure. The crew members also completed several get ahead tasks setting the stage for the duo to go back outside Thursday, June 15, to install the sixth in the series of IROSAs on the starboard 6 truss of the station for the 1B power channel.
Planned FlightsFlight Date SpX-28 June 2023 NG-19 July 2023 NG-20 December 2023 SpX-32 December 2024 USCV-9 February 2025
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA began a spacewalk at 8:42 a.m. EDT to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1B power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure.Hoburg, designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1), is wearing a suit with red stripes. Bowen, designated extravehicular crewmember 2 (EV 2), is in an unmarked suit.
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:17 p.m. EDT after 5 hours and 35 minutes.Hoburg and Bowen completed their major objective to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1B power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure.
NASA and Boeing have a plan in place for a fourth set of roll-out arrays to further augment the International Space Station’s power supply. These arrays, which would be the seventh and eighth installed on space station, are targeted for delivery to the orbital outpost in 2025.
The ISS orbit began to prepare for the autumn change of Soyuz crewsToday, the orbit of the International Space Station has been adjusted to ensure the launch of the Soyuz MS-24 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-23.The engines of the Progress MS-22 ship were turned on at 09:27 Moscow time and worked for 770.23 seconds, giving out an impulse of 1.2 m/s. As a result, the average height of the station's orbit increased by 2.1 km and amounted to 416.35 km.
Today, the orbit of the International Space Station has been adjusted to ensure the launch of the Soyuz MS-24 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-23.The engines of the Progress MS-22 spacecraft, docked to the Russian service module Zvezda, were turned on at 09:27 Moscow time and worked for 770.2 seconds, generating an impulse of 1.2 m/s.As a result, according to preliminary data from the Mission Control Center of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 2.1 km and amounted to 416.4 km.For the entire duration of the ISS flight, 340 corrections of its orbital altitude were carried out, including 188 with the help of Progress spacecraft engines.The launch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is scheduled for September 15, 2023. The crew includes members of the 70th long-term expedition to the ISS - Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara.The landing of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft with the crew of the 69th long-term expedition — Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopiev and Dmitry Petelin, NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio is scheduled for September 27, 2023.
NASA Commercial Crew @Commercial_CrewCrew Update: Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will fly as a mission specialist for @NASA's @SpaceX Crew-7 mission.Borisov joins previously named crew members @NASA_Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. https://go.nasa.gov/44njqUj
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Thursday, June 2911:45 a.m. – Undocking coverage of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station. Undocking scheduled for 12:05 p.m.
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1671532969670893569QuoteAccording to NASA's internal schedule, the Axiom-3 crew mission to the ISS is slipping into the 1Q of 2024. The flight is expected to include the first astronaut from Turkey, Alper Gezeravci.
According to NASA's internal schedule, the Axiom-3 crew mission to the ISS is slipping into the 1Q of 2024. The flight is expected to include the first astronaut from Turkey, Alper Gezeravci.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin began a spacewalk at 10:24 a.m. EDT to retrieve several experiment packages from the Zvezda and Poisk modules and install communications equipment outside the International Space Station.