Lockheed Martin has sent the Orion capsule to NASA’s exploration ground systems team for final preparations ahead of the unmanned Artemis I mission to lunar orbit that will launch later this year. The spacecraft concluded assembly operations and testing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read More »Florida Space Coast Achieves Record-High Launches With SpaceX, ULA in 2020
Florida, the state that houses U.S. launch operations, hosted a total of 31 launches with SpaceX and United Launch Alliance in 2020, exhibiting a significant growth in liftoff records from previous years, Florida Today reported Friday.
Read More »SpaceX Dragon Resupply Spacecraft to Depart From ISS
An updated SpaceX-built spacecraft is slated to leave the International Space Station Jan. 11 following the delivery of over 6.4K pounds of research equipment, hardware and crew supplies to the orbital outpost.
Read More »SpaceX Sends Classified NRO Satellite Into Orbit
SpaceX has brought a classified satellite from the National Reconnaissance Office into orbit via the company's Falcon 9 rocket, CBS News reported Saturday.
Read More »Jacobs-NASA Team Enters Space Launch System Booster’s Integration Phase
NASA has received the first Solid Rocket Booster segment for its Space Launch System and Jacobs has begun the stacking and integration of the system boosters at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the agency's Artemis I mission.
Read More »NASA Uses HPE-Built Supercomputer to Advance Research for Artemis Lunar Mission
NASA has used the Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built Aitken supercomputer to carry out simulations on launch environment and booster separation event at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Artemis manned mission to the moon by 2024.
Read More »SpaceX Crew Dragon Spacecraft Docks to ISS
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Monday and brought a team of astronauts from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Read More »NASA Eyes Mid-November Hotfire Test of SLS Rocket’s Core Stage
NASA expects the Space Launch System's core stage to undergo a hotfire test by Nov. 14 if the wet dress rehearsal slated for late October goes as planned, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The agency collaborates with Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne to complete testing work on the four-engine SLS rocket at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Read More »SpaceX, NASA Eye Oct. 31 Launch for Crew-1 Mission
SpaceX and NASA plan to launch on Oct. 31 the manned Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.
Read More »Jacobs to Integrate Northrop-Built Boosters for NASA’s SLS Rocket; Steve Arnette Quoted
Northrop Grumman has delivered the motor segments for the Space Launch System’s boosters to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where Jacobs and NASA will perform integration work for the SLS core stage rocket.
Read More »Northrop Delivers SLS Booster Segments to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Northrop Grumman has shipped a pair of rocket boosters for NASA's Space Launch System rocket to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from a company-run factory in Promontory, Utah. The deliveries will allow the rocket to support the first Artemis mission that aims to demonstrate an uncrewed launch through integrated performance between SLS, NASA ground operations and the Orion Spacecraft, Northrop said Monday.
Read More »NASA, SpaceX Reschedule Demo-2 Crewed Mission Launch to Saturday
NASA and SpaceX have pushed back to Saturday, May 30, the launch of the manned Demo-2 test flight mission due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Read More »SpaceX’s Demo-2 Crewed Mission Gets OK for Wednesday Launch
SpaceX's manned Demo-2 test flight mission as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program received the go-ahead to launch on Wednesday, May 27, after it passed a launch readiness evaluation Monday.
Read More »Report: SpaceX Projects 38 Florida Launches This Year
An environmental assessment from the Federal Aviation Administration projects a surge in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket launches in Florida in the next few years, SpaceNews reported Thursday. SpaceX plans to perform 38 launches from two launch complexes in Florida this year, including 30 missions from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Read More »Boeing Ships Out SLS Rocket Core Stage to Stennis Space Center
Boeing has taken the Space Launch System rocket’s first core stage out of NASA’s New Orleans-based Michoud Assembly Facility for delivery.
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