Volume 14; Issue 231 ~ Zero-G News (ISSN 2333-7257) ~ A Publication Of Ares Institute, Inc.
Sunday, April 9, 2017
NASA has selected 10 studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program to develop mission concepts using small satellites to investigate Venus, Earth’s moon, asteroids, Mars and the outer planets. For these studies, small satellites are defined as less than 180 kilograms in mass (about 400 pounds). CubeSats are built to standard
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...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
On September 27, NASA offered members of the media an opportunity to see the GOES-R spacecraft in its processing facility at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, FL. The meteorological satellite, the first of the GOES-R series, is...
Monday, July 18, 2016
Instruments to perform the first-ever DNA sequencing in space, and the first international docking adapter for commercial spacecraft, are among the cargo scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station after Monday’s launch of the SpaceX Commercial...
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...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Orbital ATK is on track to launch its next CRS mission late this year and is moving forward with integration of a new first stage propulsion system into the Antares launch vehicle in preparation for multiple CRS...
Thursday, July 9, 2015
As Boeing and SpaceX continue working toward the goal of conducting human spaceflight launches in the next few years, NASA announced today that the agency has selected the first four of its astronauts to prepare for the...
Monday, June 29, 2015
Sunday’s loss of the 19th Falcon 9 rocket on its seventh mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station has left SpaceX searching for answers and facing a potentially months-long grounding of its flagship launch vehicle....
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Two tons of supplies and research cargo are headed to the International Space Station today following the successful launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. After a one-day delay due to strong high-altitude winds,...
Friday, March 13, 2015
NASA’s first-of-its kind mission to study the violent interactions of the magnetic fields surrounding Earth got underway last night with a spectacular blastoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape...
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