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@SpaceKate

Alter-ego of Broadcast Journalist @RadioKate, reporting the latest spaceflight and exploration news. Advocate for diversity and women in STEM. ISU SSP12.

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Griffin-1 launch windows: one in early Jan, another 23rd Jan. Have to wait a little longer to see Bremont’s British-made watch make it to the Moon then and Astrolabs rover. #MoonBase
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Estimated cost for sending Promise to the Moon? Estimate and pretty strong agreement with JPL to send it to Moon for under $400 million including a lander. #MoonBase #NASA
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“I feel very confident in our timeline, we’re going to launch Artemis III in 2027” - Jared Isaacman #Artemis #NASA
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So the fuel for Promise RTG is existing fuel that was processed for the Cassini missions 20-30 years ago. It is degraded so not good for all missions but fine for this, says Matt Wallace, Dep. Dir. Flight Projects. #NASA #MoonBase
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Minicast comms and solar tower as part of lunar infrastructure - NASA working with Honeybee robotics, Redwire Space, and Yank technologies to enable wireless power transmission. #MoonBase
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Promise will carry copies of four of the instruments that will fly on VIPER inc. drill and spectrometers.
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Promise will land on lunar surface by late 2028 for an 18-month prime mission, led by JPL says NASA’s Nikki Fox. New website with more details at nasa.gov/moonbase/promise #MoonBase #
PROMISE - NASA

PROMISE - NASA

The PROMISE rover will carry an extensive payload of science instruments and technology demonstrations sponsored by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate,

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So NASA is going to send ‘Promise’ - the engineering model of Curiosity to the Moon, on a @blueorigin Mk1 Lander. To the South Pole it sounds like. Okay. #NASA #MoonBase
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Blue Origin, Firefly, Intuitive Machines, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, SpaceX, Voyager Technologies have been selected for CLPS2.0 contracts. #NASA #MoonBase
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CLPS2.0 - new type of contract focussed on new types of landers, more capable landers, for high value payloads from 2-6 metric tonnes. #Nasa #Moonbase
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LIVE: @NASAAdmin and agency leaders are sharing our latest updates on the Moon Base, humanity's first lunar outpost. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/i/broadcasts/2KoXmRNZM…
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NASA Moon Base: November 2026 Update

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2028? Come on. What is it with these companies that think they can just conjure a new large rocket out of thin air in two years.
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Quite enjoyed the question of whether they’d bet money on a 2028 human landing on the Moon - and kudos to Isaacman for his honest response: “We’re betting taxpayer money on it - in the most efficient and responsible way” (or words close to that effect). #Artemis
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Apologies - my rumbling tummy cut my live-tweeting short. There was actually some decent info in that presser, it just took them a while to get to it. Need to study the mission profile slides for SpaceX and Blue Origin HLS options to make sure I fully understand. #Artemis
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Ooh - nice clarification at the end there on the EVA sortie suits thanks to @manumazzanti’s question. While they are limited to two hours for an EVA, they are capable of doing multiple EVAs. The plan is for two two-hour EVAs. #Artemis
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29/ Regarding the number of refueling flights that will be needed, Parsons says that the cryogenic propellant transfer demo at the beginning of 2027 will teach them a lot, but says the anticipated efficiencies should drive SpaceX closer to the high single digits when it comes to fueling the tanker for a lunar landing mission. This comes after yesterday's Aerospace Safety and Advisory Panel mentioned that there could be as many 22 refueling missions. Isaacman adds that as SpaceX ramps up launch cadence towards bi-weekly down to weekly flights of Starship, that will also help the company transition to a higher mass to LEO capability, which will drive down the number of flights as well.
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Yay - a question about how many refuelling flights for Starship. Parsons says they aren’t looking at 22, SpaceX’s latest estimate from Elon is 6-8, but it will depend on prop transfer efficiency etc. #Artemis
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Marsha Dunn of AP asking if there is any discussion about moving the target for MoonBase and whether moving away from South Pole is being discussed. Isaacman says South Pole is the most desirable and where they are tracking to at the moment. #Artemis
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“Regardless of who goes first, both companies (SpaceX and Blue Origin) are planning for lunar landings in 2028” says Jeremy Parsons. #Artemis
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Artemis IV mission overview slide:
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