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Fittingly, the mission is named after a Norwegian ship that sailed on expeditions to the North and South Poles in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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SpaceX is set to launch its latest mission for paying customers — taking a cryptocurrency billionaire and three guests on a dayslong trip that will orbit directly above Earth’s North and South poles ...
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Space on MSNSpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit on 1st half of spaceflight doubleheader (video, photos)SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Monday (March 31), on the first of the company's two planned liftoffs for the day.
All told, Williams and Wilmore traveled more than 121 million miles during their mission, spent 286 days in space, and completed 4,576 Earth orbits.
Barry Wilmore said that astronauts, NASA and Boeing need to spend time analyzing the Starliner mission to improve future flights.
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Space.com on MSNSpaceX rolls out rocket for historic Fram2 astronaut flight over Earth's poles (photos)On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule rolling out to Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier never before explored by astronauts.
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The first stage will land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel from the North to South Pole under an hour.
Richard Jacklin, Commercial Lead at Plextek, discusses the next frontier in space debris detection - mmWave radar technology.
Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch