Atlas V Launches Secret X-37B Spaceplane And Novel Solar Sail Experiment Zero-G News Admin May 24, 2015 Atlas V, Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Exploration, Frontpage Articles, Launches, Nanosatellites, News, Photo Galleries, Rockets, Small Sats, Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Top Stories, United Launch Alliance, Unmanned Spaceflight, Video Features With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion launched into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, as part...
“Old Reliable” Delta II Orbits First Of A Kind Soil Moisture Mapping Spacecraft Zero-G News Admin February 1, 2015 CubeSats, Frontpage Articles, Launches, NASA, News, Photo Galleries, Planetary Science, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Blazing a trail through a cloudy California morning, a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket successfully deployed NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP spacecraft into polar orbit this morning on one...
Planetary Society Announces LightSail Spacecraft Test Flight Zero-G News Admin January 26, 2015 Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Frontpage Articles, Nanosatellites, News, Planetary Science, Press Releases, Small Sats, Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight The Planetary Society today announced the first of its LightSail spacecraft will embark on a May 2015 test flight. Funded entirely by private citizens, the solar sail satellite will hitch a ride to space...
JPL Selects CubeSat Proposals for Europa Clipper Mission Study Zero-G News Admin October 8, 2014 CubeSat, CubeSats, Nanosatellites, NASA, Planetary Science, Press Releases, Small Sats, Unmanned Spaceflight NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has chosen proposals from 10 universities to study CubeSat concepts that could enhance a Europa mission concept currently under study by NASA. The...
NASA To Create First 3D-Printed Space Cameras Zero-G News Admin August 6, 2014 CubeSat, CubeSats, Frontpage Articles, Nanosatellites, NASA, Small Sats, Top Stories By the end of September, NASA aerospace engineer Jason Budinoff is expected to complete the first imaging telescopes ever assembled almost exclusively from 3-D-manufactured components. "As far as I know, we...
Dragon Begins Third ISS Resupply Mission; First Stage Recovery Test Success Zero-G News Admin April 18, 2014 Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Expedition 39, Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, ISS, Launches, NASA, Photo Galleries, Rockets, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight, Video Features A GoPro Captures Launch Of A SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Carrying Dragon CRS-3 Dodging a gloomy weather forecast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared into space this afternoon to begin a critical...
Antares Blasts Off With Cygnus On First Contracted ISS Resupply Mission Zero-G News Admin January 9, 2014 Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Expedition 38, Human Spaceflight, ISS, Launches, Nanosatellites, NASA, News, Photo Galleries, Rockets, space station, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight, Video Features Marking the beginning of regular supply runs to the International Space Station, Orbital Sciences Corporation sucessfully launched its Cygnus cargo craft aboard Antares rocket January 9 from the Mid-Atlantic...
Atlas V Lofts Top-Secret Satellite, 12 CubeSats For NASA And Education Zero-G News Admin December 6, 2013 Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Launches, NASA, Photo Galleries, Unmanned Spaceflight, Video Features Launch of NROL-39, Vandenberg, AFB, CA. Credit: ULA A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenber...
Second-Generation Falcon Takes Flight To Test New Engines, Recoverability Zero-G News Admin October 3, 2013 Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Launches, Rockets Equipped with upgraded engines, computer systems and greatly improved payload capacity, SpaceX's first second-generation Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the company's new West Coast launch pad at Vendenberg...
Stephen Hawking – “Why Go To Space?” – NASA 50th Anniversary Lecture Zero-G News Admin July 7, 2013 Astrophysics, Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Exploration, History, Human Spaceflight, ISS, Mars, Nanosatellites, NASA, News, Planetary Science, Space Exploration, Spaceflight MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome to the campus of George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C., for what promises to be a very remarkable afternoon. My name is John Logsdon. I am the...
