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The latest SpaceX launch included two NASA astronauts, one Russian cosmonaut and one Japanese astronaut.

After lifting off Wednesday, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule is expected to dock with the space station Thursday afternoon. “At a working level, we’ve really appreciated the constancy and the relationship even during some really, really tough times geopolitically.” Rubio and a pair of cosmonauts launched in a Russian Soyuz rocket that arrived at the station Sept. Wednesday’s flight was the first time a Russian flew on a SpaceX rocket. For more than 20 years, the countries have served as the main partners on the space station — sustaining a fragile, interdependent relationship that has served both countries’ space programs well. Last month, it was Russia’s turn to fly an American, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, to the station.

Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NASA and Roscosmos have managed to continue cooperating on flights to and from the International Space Station.

And in July, in a rare burst of disapproval, NASA strongly criticized Roscosmos for distributing photographs of three Russian astronauts on the space station holding the After the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011, NASA purchased seats from Russia for the transportation of its astronauts to and from orbit. (Otherwise, there would not be enough seats on the remaining spacecraft.) If all the Russians arrived on the Soyuz, that would leave the Russian segment of the space station with no crew to manage it. In the early years of the space station, before the loss of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, the two countries traded seats on the American space shuttles and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. [Russia’s involvement in the space station after 2024](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/science/russia-space-station.html) was uncertain during a meeting with President Vladimir V. Rather, the arrangement is intended to help ensure smooth operations on the space station, which consists of a Russian-led segment and a NASA-led segment. In July, NASA and Roscosmos, the state corporation that oversees the Russian space industry, completed an agreement to fly Russian astronauts on American rockets and NASA astronauts on Russian Soyuz rockets. Despite tensions on Earth since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, operations on the International Space Station have been largely unaffected. While the space station’s future remains far on the horizon, NASA and Russia have had to address getting crews to and from the outpost in orbit in the present. [proposed retiring the International Space Station](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/science/space-station-nasa-bridenstine.html) and turning to [commercial alternatives](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/science/space-station-blue-origin-sierra.html). The four will spend half a year in orbit on the space station. One of the passengers of the mission, Crew-5, is a Russian astronaut, Anna Kikina.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with four people on board is on its way to the International Space Station after a successful launch Oct. 5.

Crew-5 is the eighth crewed launch by SpaceX, all flown in less than two and a half years. He said the company didn’t have a set time to review data from a previous launch before attempting a crewed launch, but instead it depended on the data needed for review. 4, but said it would further delay the launch if the Crew-5 mission remained on schedule for Oct. Another Falcon 9 is set to launch a set of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7:10 p.m. 3 to provide additional time for pre-launch checks, it initially rescheduled the launch for Oct. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 12 p.m.

The mission is SpaceX's fifth operational crew launch for NASA to date, and the company's eighth human spaceflight in just over two years.

The mission is SpaceX's fifth operational crew launch for NASA to date, and the company's eighth human spaceflight in just over two years. The mission brings the number of astronauts SpaceX has launched to 30, including both government and private missions, since its first crewed launch in May 2020. But Boeing's capsule remains in development, with Known as Crew-5, the mission for NASA will bring the group up to the ISS for a six-month stay in orbit. - Known as Crew-5, the mission for NASA will bring the group up to the ISS for a six-month stay in orbit. - The mission is SpaceX's fifth operational crew launch for NASA to date and the company's eighth human spaceflight in just over two years.

Starlink uses 12 GHz spectrum to connect its satellites in non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) to user terminals. Satellite broadcaster Dish Network uses frequencies ...

A study DirecTV filed with the FCC in July that underpinned its warning was also conducted by Savid. — Plans to use a part of Ku-band for 5G networks in the United States could disrupt Starlink broadband services even more than SpaceX previously estimated, the company said Oct. Savid also observed that the use of statistical methods in any of the analyses submitted to the FCC “washes out the real interference that a Starlink user will see from high-power terrestrial mobile base stations operating nearby,” Goldman added. 4 as it released interference analysis from a third party. [submitted its own study](https://spacenews.com/oneweb-backs-up-starlink-5g-interference-warning/) to the FCC in July to show how using the spectrum for terrestrial 5G would severely disrupt NGSO broadband across the United States. In the letter to the FCC, Goldman said its latest analysis also addresses a claim from RS Access that “only a third party could truly analyze” how the proposed network would interfere with NGSO satellites.