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shane, 2 dni temu w CNES Issues Call for Lunar Power Station Prototype - European Spaceflight

So I guess this is solar powered? It’s not clear from the text, but the picture has a lot of solar panels.

The moon has a rotation of 28 days right? I thought that was a severe limitation of solar power there, since you have to go a fortnight without sunlight on the surface…

threelonmusketeers, wczoraj

The polar regions of the moon have regions which are more permanently in sunlight/shadow. The Argonaut lander mentioned in the article is destined for the south pole.

burble, 4 dni temu w The Exploration Company Tests Key Component of Typhoon Rocket Engine

A full flow staged combustion engine without a customer is really weird. Hopefully we find out soon who will use this.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

AVUM+ ignition 5 and shutdown 5 confirmed. Sounds like a nominal passivation burn.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

AVUM+ will perform a 5th burn to the stage up for passivation and reentry.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

AVUM+ shutdown 4 and MicroCarb separation confirmed! Mission success!

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

AVUM+ ignition 4 confirmed.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

AVUM+ ignition 3 confirmed.

Edit: And shutdown 3 confirmed. AVUM+ boost 4 is scheduled for T+01:36:43.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Separation of all four CO3D satellites confirmed.

AVUM+ boost 3 is scheduled for T+01:00:15.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

AVUM+ ignition 2 and shutdown 2 confirmed.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu (edited 9 dni temu) w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

AVUM+ shutdown 1 and nominal trajectory.

Coast phase will last ~35 minutes. Coverage will resume at T+48 minutes.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Staging 3-4 and AVUM+ burn 1 in progress.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Staging 2-3 and fairing separation.

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Staging 1-2

threelonmusketeers, 9 dni temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Liftoff!

threelonmusketeers, 14 dni temu w ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

Glad to see that ExoMars is progressing despite cooperation with Russia falling through.