Amid Testing Trouble, Firm Launch Date Expected Today For Falcon 9 CRS-5 Zero-G News Admin December 18, 2014 Frontpage Articles, ISS, Launches, NASA, News, Rockets, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight We should learn today whether or not SpaceX will be able to attempt a launch this week of its Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the space station. However, a slip of a day or two, possibly longer, is expected...
Powerful Atlas Launches Clandestine Satellite From California Zero-G News Admin December 12, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Launches, Military, News, Photo Galleries, Rockets, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight The largest Atlas rocket to fly from California blasted off tonight on a successful mission to deliver the classified NROL-35 satellite to polar orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. Following a one...
Atlas To The Rescue, Orbital Selects ULA To Launch Cygnus To ISS In 2015 Zero-G News Admin December 9, 2014 Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, ISS, Launches, News, Rockets, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight As the company continues to recover from October's spectacular launch failure of the Antares medium-lift launch vehicle, Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has signed a contract with United...
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Completes “Picture Perfect” First Test Flight Zero-G News Admin December 5, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, Launches, NASA, News, Orion, Rockets, SLS, Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Reaching a pinnacle in its nine-year development program, NASA’s next-generation Orion deep-space exploration craft soared through a picture-perfect test flight today to mark a major milestone in NASA’s...
Inferno Over Wallops! A first-hand Photo And Video Account Of Antares Launch Failure Zero-G News Admin November 23, 2014 Commentary, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, ISS, Launches, NASA, News, Photo Galleries, Rockets, Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight, Video Features Read the story with a full page of launch pad remote camera photos and video! Last month, Zero-G News had the opportunity to travel to Wallops Flight Facility, VA in order to cover the anticipated launch of...
Antares Explodes, ISS Cargo Lost In Launch Failure Zero-G News Admin October 29, 2014 Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, ISS, Launches, NASA, News, Rockets, Space Exploration, space station, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Launch of the Cygnus spacecraft was supposed to be the start of the third of Orbital Science Corporation’s eight NASA-contracted resupply missions to the International Space Station. Instead, Orbital and...
Atlas V Racks Up 50th Success With Launch of GPS IIF-8 For U.S. Air Force Zero-G News Admin October 29, 2014 Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Launches, News, Press Releases, Rockets, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched the eighth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-8 satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 1:21 p.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex-41. This...
Hurricane Gonzalo Delays NASA’s Latest Cargo Run To ISS Zero-G News Admin October 16, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, ISS, Launches, NASA, News, Rockets, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Already delayed several times, the launch of an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility, VA was pushed back again today due to the expected passage of a powerful hurricane over a critical...
Looking To The Future, Delta IV Rocket For Orion First Flight Reaches The Launch Pad Zero-G News Admin October 1, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, NASA, News, Orion, Photo Galleries, Rockets, Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket stands on the launch pad today, marking a critical and historic milestone of NASA’s plan to launch the first Orion spacecraft later this year. Overnight,...
Sierra Nevada Targets Air-Launch With Stratolaunch Partnership Zero-G News Admin September 30, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, News, Press Releases, Spaceflight, Top Stories Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) today announced a design for an integrated system for human spaceflight that can be launched to low Earth orbit (LEO) using Stratolaunch Systems' air launch architecture and a...
