Spacewalkers were John Olivas and Nicole Stott. The STS-128 EVA #1 total time was six hours and thirty-five minutes.
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XCOR Aerospace has reached several significant milestones in the 5K18 rocket engine test program. The engine is powered by liquid oxygen and kerosene and can produce up to 2900 lbf of thrust. The XCOR\’s Lynx suborbital spacecraft will use four 5K18 engines and it will be able to perform suborbital flights.
“Like all of our rocket engines, this engine has demonstrated the ability to be stopped and re-started using our safe and reliable spark torch ignition system”, said XCOR CEO Jeff Greason. “The basic cooling design has also been completed and the engine is able to run continuously at thermal equilibrium. With those milestones reached, the 5K18 test program is now moving forward into a second phase of tuning and optimization, in which we will also greatly increase our cumulative run time.”
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On STS-128, NASA is testing a new system during the rendezvous, docking, undocking, and fly-around phases of the mission. The new vision system is called TriDAR and it is developed by Neptec, a Canadian company based in Ottawa. Neptec is a prime contractor to NASA since 1995. Neptec range of products for the space industry also includes the Laser Camera System (LCS) and the Space Vision System (SVS).
On August 28, 2009, at 11:59 PM EDT, Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Launch Pad 39A, Kennedy Space Center. Discovery\’s payload contains the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and the Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier.
The STS-128 crew consists of Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Kevin Ford, mission specialists José Hernández, John “Danny” Olivas, Nicole Stott, European Space Agency\’s Christer Fuglesang and Patrick Forrester. Nicole Stott will remain on the space station as flight engineer, replacing Timothy Kopra.
On August 21, the fourth flight of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle this year orbited two Asia-Pacific telecommunications satellites. This was the 32nd consecutive mission success for Ariane 5. The JCSAT-12 and Optus D3 payloads were injected into geostationary transfer orbit during a flight that lasted just over 34 minutes.
JCSAT-12 was built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems. The satellite carries 30 Ku-band transponders plus 12 C-band transponders.
Optus D3 was manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation. Optus D3 is designed to provide fixed communications and direct television broadcasting services for Australia and New Zealand. The spacecraft is equipped with 32 Ku-band transponders.
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was launched on August 12, 2005. MRO reached Martian orbit on March 10, 2006, and, after five months of aerobraking, it entered its final science orbit and began its primary science phase.
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