Volume 14; Issue 263 ~ Zero-G News (ISSN 2333-7257) ~ A Publication Of Ares Institute, Inc.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Demonstrating SpaceX”s ramped-up two missions per month launch rate, the company successfully launched the Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 spacecraft on its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center today. Once again, Falcon flew from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), lifting off at 7:21 pm EDT. Falcon 9 / Inmarsat-5 F4 Launch Pad Remote And Press Site
Thursday, March 16, 2017
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully orbited the EchoStar XXIII to Geostationary Transfer Orbit this morning, marking the company’s second flight from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following a slight delay during the countdown, Falcon...
Monday, February 27, 2017
Elon Musk is not someone who could be described as timid. The same could be said for his flagship enterprise, SpaceX. That was evidenced today when the company made the surprise announcement that it plans to send...
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Nearly five years after the final space shuttle mission blasted off and forty four years since the last humans left Earth to set foot on the Moon, Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A was again the focus...
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Soaring through a crystal-clear autumn afternoon, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully orbited the next-to-last craft of the current generation of Global Positioning System satellites, GPS IIF-11. Following a 24-hour delay so the ULA ground...
Saturday, July 18, 2015
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida took another step forward in its transformation to a 21st Century multi-user spaceport with the completion of the new Small Class Vehicle Launch Pad, designated 39C, in the Launch Pad 39B...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Following the successful pad abort test in May, SpaceX began developing a plan that would move its in-flight abort test to provide higher fidelity data and reduce risk to future crews launched to the International Space Station...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
With just six months until its first trip to space, NASA’s Orion spacecraft continues taking shape at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers began stacking the crew module on top of the completed service module...
Sunday, June 8, 2014
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 Kennedy Space Center as well as...
Friday, June 6, 2014
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) program that laid the groundwork for those flights. The...
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