Delta II Returns To Service To Launch NASA’s First Carbon Monitoring Spacecraft Zero-G News Admin July 2, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Launches, NASA, News, Rockets, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Following a one-day delay to fix a balky water valve on its launch pad, the Delta II launch vehicle returned to service early Wednesday morning with a fiery nighttime ascent from California on a mission to...
Success For NASA’s Experimental Supersonic “Flying Saucer” Zero-G News Admin June 28, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Launches, Mars, NASA, Rockets, Top Stories NASA officials are calling today's near-space test flight of the agency's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) a success despite the fact that an experimental supersonic parachute failed to deploy during...
2014 NASA Advanced Technology Phase I Concepts Selected For Study Zero-G News Admin June 11, 2014 NASA, Press Releases, Top Stories Anthony Colozza, Ohio Aerospace Institute, Planetary Exploration Using Biomimetics NASA has selected 12 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which aims...
Projects Selected For NASA’s 2015 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge Zero-G News Admin June 11, 2014 Exploration, Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, NASA, Press Releases, Space Exploration, Top Stories The University of Maryland's Deep Space Habitat concept. NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation have selected five universities to design systems, concepts and technologies to enhance capabilities for...
Orion Stacking Operations Begin For December EFT-1 Launch Zero-G News Admin June 10, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, Launches, NASA, News, Orion, Rockets, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Inside the Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA and Lockheed Martin technicians and engineers monitor the progress as a crane is used to lift the Orion...
Engine Failure Investigation Slips Next Cygnus ISS Resupply Mission Into July Zero-G News Admin June 9, 2014 Expedition 39, Frontpage Articles, ISS, Launches, NASA, Press Releases, Rockets, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Antares blasts off on the Cygnus Orb-1 mission. Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has updated its Antares launch schedule for the Orb-2 mission to a date no earlier than (NET) July 1, 2014. ...
NASA Video Highlights Orion, SLS Development Progress Zero-G News Admin June 8, 2014 Human Spaceflight, NASA, Orion, SLS, Video Features This is NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate quarterly update highlighting progress made in early 2014 toward the flight test of Orion EFT-1 and ongoing work to upgrade the ground infrastructure at...
NASA Uses Laser To Beam “Hello, World!” Video From ISS Zero-G News Admin June 6, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, ISS, NASA, Press Releases, space station, Top Stories Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) Flight System hardware. Image is credited to NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to...
NASA’s Final Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Report Released Zero-G News Admin June 6, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, ISS, NASA, News, Press Releases, space station, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight With two companies now providing commercial cargo launch services for the International Space Station, NASA is issuing its final report on the now-complete Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)...
NASA Readies Futuristic “Flying Saucer” For Flight Over Hawaii Zero-G News Admin June 5, 2014 Mars, NASA, News, Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight UPDATE: Due to weather conditions, there will be no launch of the LDSD test vehicle June 4 or 5. Other potential launch dates include June 7, 9, 11 and 14. The decision to move forward with another launch...
