Nasa's Hi-C Flare mission, with advanced instruments from Marshall Space Flight Center, captures solar flares. The mission, led by Sabrina Savage, successfully launches sounding rockets to observe and analyze M-class flares, utilizing innovative solar flare prediction algorithms and COOL-AID data analysis by Amy Winebarger."}
ULA launch director Tom Heter III on Tuesday announced that the launch of Atlas V and Starliner which was scheduled for today, have been postponed. Nasa in a post on X (formerly Twitter) also confirmed the postponement of the launch. Indian-origin astronaut Captain Sunita Williams and her colleague, veteran Nasa astronaut Butch Wilmore, were part of the mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with two astronauts aboard was due for liftoff at 10.34pm (8.04am IST Tuesday) from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carried atop an Atlas V rocket furnished by the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance (ULA).
Nasa's GEDI on ISS utilizes lidar to study Earth's forests in 3D, providing insights into canopy height, vegetation density, climate change responses, carbon sequestration, and habitat changes for groundbreaking discoveries.
After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for Nasa. It's the first flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of Nasa pilots who will check out the spacecraft during the test drive and a weeklong stay at the space station.
