All systems are “GO” for tomorrow’s scheduled launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the second Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous satellite, known as SBIRS GEO-2, for the United States Air Force. With the weather forecast to have a 70% probability of favorable conditions, liftoff is targeted to occur at the beginning […]
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station Sunday used a robotic arm to capture and attach the Cygnus supply spacecraft, which carried dozens of new science experiments from across the country and the world to the orbiting laboratory. The arrival capped the first successful contracted cargo delivery by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., for NASA. […]
NASA successfully launched a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying student experiments with the RockOn/RockSat-C programs at 6 a.m., June 25. More than 200 middle school and university students and instructors participating in Rocket Week at Wallops were on hand to witness the launch. Through RockOn and RockSat-C students are learning and applying skills […]
