Volume 14; Issue 179 ~ Zero-G News (ISSN 2333-7257) ~ A Publication Of Ares Institute, Inc.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
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
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft is being prepped for it seventh launch under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract to deliver experiments and supplies to the International Space Station. This will be the third time Cygnus has launched on...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 March 1 at 9:50 a.m. PST. Designated NROL-79, the mission is in support of national...
Friday, January 20, 2017
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the third Space Based Infrared Systems Geosynchronous Earth Orbit spacecraft this evening. The first launch from the East Coast in 2017 blasted into the night sky from Space...
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Perched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, GOES-R, the first of NOAA’s next-generation geostationary weather satellites, blasted off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 today at 6:42 p.m. EST. The spacecraft will bring greatly...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Orbital ATK successfully launched its Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus spacecraft today at 7:45 p.m. EDT, marking its return to flight operations from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. The OA-5 mission blasted off from...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
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...
Thursday, September 8, 2016
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...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
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...
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Space station cargo resupply missions from U.S. soil resumed today with the successful return to flight of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft on the OA-4 mission. Delayed three days due to inclement weather at Cape Canaveral, Cygnus blasted...
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