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Racing to beat hurricane Irma looming offshore, SpaceX successfully launched the Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane on its fifth mission on September 7. Carried onboard a Falcon 9 rocket, the Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) mission blasted off at 10 am from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39-A. SpaceX Falcon 9 / OTV-5 Launch, Boostback And […]
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In a historic first, after waiting out inclement weather, Orbital ATK successfully lit up the night sky and launched a Minotaur IV solid-fuel rocket from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 46 last night and delivered the U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space-5 (ORS-5) spacecraft to low Earth orbit. ORS-5 marks the first Minotaur IV launch from […]
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Marking the end of an era, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M (TDRS-M) thundered into space this morning onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. Following a 26-minute delay to troubleshoot out of limit temperatures on the Centaur upper stage, TDRS-M lifted off at 8:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape […]
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Experiments seeking a better understanding of Parkinson’s disease and the origin of cosmic rays are on their way to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft following today’s 12:31 p.m. EDT launch. Launch Pad Remote Cameras – SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-12 Dragon Launch Carrying more than 6,400 pounds of research equipment, cargo and […]
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Major experiments that will look into the human body and out into the galaxy are on their way to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft following its 5:07 p.m. EDT launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX CRS-11 Launch The Dragon lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […]
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Rocket Lab broke new ground today when its Electron rocket reached space at 16:23 NZST. Electron lifted-off at 16:20 NZST from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. It was the first orbital-class rocket launched from from a private launch site in the world. Rocketlab Electron “It’s A Test” Launch […]
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Demonstrating SpaceX”s ramped-up two missions per month launch rate, the company successfully launched the Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 spacecraft on its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center today. Once again, Falcon flew from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), lifting off at 7:21 pm EDT. Falcon 9 / Inmarsat-5 F4 Launch Pad Remote And Press Site […]
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NASA has selected 10 studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program to develop mission concepts using small satellites to investigate Venus, Earth’s moon, asteroids, Mars and the outer planets. For these studies, small satellites are defined as less than 180 kilograms in mass (about 400 pounds). CubeSats are built to standard […]
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Blazing a fiery trail in the sky above Cape Canaveral, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket successfully orbited the ninth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS-9) spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force last night, the second launch in three days and third in four weeks from Florida. After a 34-minute delay to troubleshoot an issue with […]
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully orbited the EchoStar XXIII to Geostationary Transfer Orbit this morning, marking the company’s second flight from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following a slight delay during the countdown, Falcon 9 lifted off at 2:00 a.m. EDT to begin its middle of the night climb to orbit. See […]
