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#RocketLab #MadeInNewZealand | #StillTesting – flight number two – stage one stack static Rutherford engine testing.

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Recently late August 2017 , Auckland Based, Made in New Zealand- Rocket Lab, has recently tested for its second attempt test certification launch for its New Zealand Homemade Electron Carbon fibre Rocket with, it’s innovative 3D printed oxygen/ kerosene Rutherford Engines for its primary components in which clustered to same mirroring pioneering propulsion systems like the Soyuz’s daisy Clustered engines which has a component  print time averagely of twenty four hours..

Previous the first test certification flight nicknamed “it’s a Test” was launched in 25th May 2017.. on the east coast of North Island, at Mahia peninsula in which launch complex one, New Zealand made constructed in the same manner like Space X’s Falcon nine’s also the Roscomos Soyuz’s Launcher carrier transfer pad tractor rocket system to launch pad facilities..

As part of the second static testing was to solve any further issues that resulted from the first flight in findings it was a telemetry data loss issue that lead towards the termination of the “it’s a Test’ first certification flight in which was corrected as part of investigation as Rocket Lab testing out the essentials it’s preparing for its second certification testing flight in which is coming soon..

#ULA – United Launch Alliance |#TDRSM- AtlasV Mission Profile…

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On a Friday 18th August 2017 ULA- United Launch Alliance , on a geo synchronous transfer orbit launch from Cape Canaveral Air force Station from Launch complex 41at launch window time at 0803 morning Eastern Date Time with a forty minute window…… The Partnership Payload is NASA- National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s TDRS-M Tracking Data Relay Satellite –M series high data communications tracking satellite that provides the Space Network with a life cycle of fifteen years’ service…

The Launcher carrier Rocket is the Atlas V 401 powered with the RD 180 Engine with the secondary stage of the Centaur powered with the RL 10C Engine…

TDRS-M Tracking Data Relay Satellite –M, is the provision communications with its sisters in providing communications in support provisions of providing communications with various ground stations on Earth in between The Space Network with various spacecraft like the Space Shuttle mission, the International Space Station then with the Commercial Crew-Resupply Mission also onwards with the SLS- Constellation lunar- Martian- rover missions also with the Hubble Space Telescope as well the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope…..

#AIRBUS |Space and Defense- The #SpaceTug – revolution the space industry extending life..

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In development of launching spacecraft, or satellites in which most do come with an operational life cycle in which till the next generation series that replaces its core operation, in which replacing the current satellites that nearing its life cycle can be costly to its operators..   in results there’s one interesting case that could be learnt during the STS –Space Transportation Systems, the Space Shuttle mission where that lessons learnt in repairing the HST- Hubble Space Telescope, also to with along with other satellites- ISS- International Space Station repairs during that STS mission era..

That lesson learnt is extending the satellites operations life cycle, before it reaching its maximum expiring operations cycle…. One Airbus Space and Defense have in mind is The Space Tug, in which designing to operations a multipurpose –application robotic satellite that does numerous tasks in helping other satellites for repositioning, refueling them aswell also exchanging other payloads as technologies progresses also it introduces reusability in space with the aid of solar electric propulsion in which enhances its services also as it rendezvous with its Patient with the aid of vision based navigation also rendezvous with others  in and proximity operations even for satellites that are not design for rendezvous…

#SPACEX #CRS11 | Landing of the Falcon nine reusable- ten minutes after the launch from that iconic launch Complex 39A….

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Ten minutes after the launch of the SpaceX – CRS11  from coast sunset afternoon on a Saturday   3rd June 2017  that t NASA- Kennedy Space Center Iconic launch Pad –LC- 39A on bound on the par taking resupplying the International Space Station with various supplying with 60,000 Pounds of supplies critical materials parts, in endeavoring with two hundred and fifty investigative experiments supplying expeditions 52 also 53 the reused CRS-11 Dragon Module was used previously in a CRS-4 mission on September 2014……. Ten minutes after the launch, the Falcon Nine reusable begins it traditional of two textbook landing decent onwardly to Landing  Zone one 15 Kilometres from the NASA-KSC launch complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…..

#SPACEX #NASA |#CRS-10 Falcon nine reusable Landed from that Historical #NASAKSC Launch Pad 39A- Round Two…

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As this early morning launch on 19th February 2016, on that second SpaceX Falcon Nine CRS-10 Commercial Resupply Service towards the ISS- International Space Station, that second attempt from that Historical Launch Pad from Cape Canaveral, on Launch Complex LC- 39A, as that launch second attempt went without any hitch, it launched smoothly as, ten minutes into the flight, on a cloudy morning.. Then separated from the secondary Dragon Resupply module…  the landing of the Falcon Nine Reusable was smooth as the main webcast shows it’s manoeuvring autonomously with ease through the various heavy layered clouds…  to Space X Landing Zone on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…