Nova Space Newsletter, Issue #8
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Col. Jeremy Raley (right) assumed command of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate July 13, 2022, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. On the left is Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, commander of AFRL. Credit: U.S. Air Force
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by?Sandra Erwin?—?August 29, 2022
WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate over the next three years hopes to launch big-ticket military experiments, including a GPS-like navigation satellite, a solar power spacecraft and a deep-space mission to monitor regions around the moon.?
With these and other space projects in the pipeline, AFRL is looking to shore up its technical workforce and to partner with?private companies, Col. Jeremy Raley, the new head of the space vehicles directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, told?SpaceNews.
Raley, who assumed command of the directorate?last month, said there is a growing list of projects on tap “and I need people who want to come here to New Mexico or otherwise partner with AFRL and work on these things.”
The directorate, with more than 800 employees and an annual budget for more than $500 million, performs some of the military’s most cutting-edge space experiments.
“There’s a lot of opportunity for young engineers to really have an impact,” Raley said.?
AFRL’s experiments are trying to answer questions such as how the military could deploy satellites between the Earth and the moon, use space to deploy new types of communications architectures and extend the lives of satellites in orbit. “Those are going to be huge things and exciting things to work on,” Raley said. “I need junior to mid level engineers who want to come here and make that happen.”
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Seen is the structure of South Korea’s first planned robotic lunar lander. Credit: Korea Aerospace Research Institute
by?Park Si-soo?—?August 30, 2022
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea seeks a $459 million budget to build a 1.8-ton robotic lunar lander, which it wants to send to the moon in 2031 for a one-year mission on the nation’s next-generation carrier rocket under development.
The project would be South Korea’s second lunar exploration mission after its?first robotic lunar orbiter, called Danuri, which is on the way to the moon after launching Aug. 4 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.?
Details of the plan were presented in an Aug. 24 public hearing organized by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the mission’s lead manager. The hearing was an essential step for KARI to request a budget for the mission. The plan can be modified in a feasibility study by the finance ministry.
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According to the presentation, KARI seeks 618.4 billion won ($459 million) to build the lander and payload in collaboration with domestic institutes, universities and companies as part of an effort to nurture the nascent domestic space industry. Aboard the lander would be a 13-kilogram detector of volatile substances in the regolith, a 27-kilogram autonomous navigation system for the lander’s soft-landing on the moon, a 0.75-kilogram nuclear power generator, and a 15-kilogram rover. The rover could carry a 5-kilogram payload: an electron gun designed to image and analyze lunar dust, and a high-resolution camera.?
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Credit: Jordan Sirokie
by?Jeff Foust?—?August 30, 2022
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — NASA has rescheduled the next attempt to launch the Artemis 1 mission for Sept. 3 after concluding that a faulty temperature sensor may be at the root of the problem that scrubbed the first launch attempt.
Agency officials said at an Aug. 30 media teleconference that they’re moving ahead with a second attempt to launch the Space Launch System rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft, during a two-hour window that opens at 2:17 p.m. Eastern Sept. 3. That is one day later than the agency’s original plan for the next launch attempt.
One reason for the additional delay is to give engineers time to work on a hydrogen leak detected in the tail service mast umbilical that loads liquid hydrogen into the core stage. “We want to do some inspections and want to do some retorques,” said Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, NASA Artemis launch director.
However, that leak was resolved during the Aug. 29 launch attempt and was not the reason the launch was scrubbed. Instead, launch controllers ran into problems with the “kickstart bleed” where liquid hydrogen flows through the four RS-25 engines in the core stage to cool them before launch. One of the four engines, designated engine #3, did not get down to the same temperature as the other three, and efforts to correct the problem failed,?prompting the scrub.
John Honeycutt, NASA SLS program manager, said the hydrogen bleed is intended to cool the engines to about –250 degrees Celsius. Three of the engines, #1, 2 and 4, got down to about –245 degrees Celsius, but engine #3 was only at about –230 degrees Celsius, according to temperature sensors in the engines.
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