Space Stuff and Launch Info

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Solar panel and sunshade have deployed. More deployment and commissioning steps will come over the next weeks. Pictures are only expected in early 2027.

 

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Lots of spacewalk activity at the ISS. Normally they have about one per month, with only five in 2025. Currently they are doing the fourth spacewalk within a month.
Among other things, they'll work on the particle physics experiment AMS-02.

Sophie Adenot (ESA) made her first spacewalk on Tuesday August 18, the second on Tuesday August 25, and is now on the third one. You could say this spacewalk is literally just another Tuesday for her.

Jessica Meir (NASA) is already on her 8th spacewalk.

 

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Isar Aerospace has returned to the launch pad for Flight 2. The company is targeting NET 5 September to launch its qualification flight from the company’s dedicated launch complex at Andøya Space.

The launch window opens at 8pm UTC; 10pm CEST, subject to weather, safety and range clearance.

Source:
https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview

 

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First German rocket to reach orbit.
Germany was the first to reach space (a V2 in 1944) and is now the latest to reach orbit, 82 years later.
(Germany is involved in Arianespace, you could argue that Ariane is partially-German, but Spectrum is built by a German company)

Currently still in a coast phase before they'll circularize the orbit, but it's in orbit already.
Edit: Successful circularization and payload deployment.