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On September 27, NASA offered members of the media an opportunity to see the GOES-R spacecraft in its processing facility at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, FL. The meteorological satellite, the first of the GOES-R series, is being prepared for a November 4 launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 5:40 pm […]
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(Editor’s Note: This is an update provided to Zero-G News by SpaceX on September 23,2016) – Three weeks ago, SpaceX experienced an anomaly at our Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This resulted in the loss of one of our Falcon 9 rockets and its payload. The Accident Investigation Team (AIT), […]
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Orbital ATK is targeting no earlier than Oct. 9-13, 2016, for the launch of its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, carrying cargo to the International Space Station. A more specific date will be identified after completion of final operational […]
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Last week, the 45th Space Wing’s Incident Management Team responded to the Falcon 9 Static Test Fire anomaly on Space Launch Complex 40. The explosion occurred Sept. 1 at approximately 9:07 a.m. as many of us were just returning from our morning meetings. Minutes later I got the call … it’s the call no one […]
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Blazing a trail into the early evening sky, the first asteroid sampling mission launched launched by NASA blasted into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT, September 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to begin a two-year journey to the Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu and collect a sample from its surface. Atlas V OSIRIS-REx Launch […]
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Looking to re-launch one of their succeffully-landed Falcon 9 first stages on a commercial mission later this year, SpaceX has begun full-duration static fires at the company’s test facility in McGregor, Texas. The first such test, a historic first, was cusscessfully conducted, followed by tests on subsequent days. Accoring to Elon Musk, SpaceX will fire […]
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NASA took another important step Friday in returning U.S. astronaut launches from U.S. soil with the order of a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Commercial crew flights from Florida’s Space Coast to the International Space Station will restore America’s human spaceflight launch capability and increase the time U.S. crews can […]
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 July 28 at 8:37 a.m. EDT. Designated NROL-61, the mission is in support of national defense. This mission was launched aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 421 configuration vehicle, […]
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Instruments to perform the first-ever DNA sequencing in space, and the first international docking adapter for commercial spacecraft, are among the cargo scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station after Monday’s launch of the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services-9 (CRS-9) mission. SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft launched at 12:45 a.m. EDT on a Falcon 9 rocket […]
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A booster for the most powerful rocket in the world, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), successfully fired up Tuesday for its second qualification ground test at Orbital ATK’s test facilities in Promontory, Utah. This was the last full-scale test for the booster before SLS’s first uncrewed test flight with NASA’s Orion spacecraft in late 2018, […]
