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Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission ready for launch (spacenews.com)

submitted 4 months ago by llamacoffee to c/[email protected]

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[–] jqubed 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Was this the one that was also going on a basically polar orbit?

[–] llamacoffee 6 points 4 months ago

I LOVE that already there are enough commercial space missions happening that it's easy to get confused which one is which! The more the merrier imo :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, that's this one, funded by a crypto billionaire, announced a week ago and launching in ~4 months.

Polaris Dawn is funded by a payments processing billionaire, announced 2.5 years ago, and launching this month.

[–] pennomi 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And Polaris Dawn is actually going to be doing something interesting - testing brand new EVA suits, possibly in preparation for future service missions.

The other mission is only interesting because no humans have flown a polar orbit yet. That’s more of a tourism first than an engineering/science benefit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They will go through the Van Allen Belt to study the radiation there and the first commercial EVA ever !

This is a huge milestone for SpaceX and commercial space exploration.