ULA’s mighty Atlas V rocket thundered off from Cape Canaveral Sunday afternoon, lifting into orbit the world’s most powerful broadband satellite to deliver services to over one million homes and businesses across the United States.
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ULA’s mighty Atlas V rocket thundered off from Cape Canaveral Sunday afternoon, lifting into orbit the world’s most powerful broadband
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket was rolled to its Cape Canaveral Launch Pad on Saturday for a Sunday afternoon liftoff to dispatch a powerful broadband satellite into orbit to deliver high-speed Internet to the United States.
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Europe’s Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System officially opened for business on Thursday in its Initial Operational Capability – delivering global positioning, navigation and timing information to a wide user base.
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Eight miniature hurricane research satellites soared into orbit on Thursday atop a Pegasus XL rocket dropped from a modified Jumbo Jet over the Atlantic Ocean, beginning a mission to peer into the most dynamic regions of the world’s cyclones to improve storm forecasting.
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Eight miniature hurricane research satellites soared into orbit on Thursday atop a Pegasus XL rocket dropped from a modified Jumbo
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft brushed past Jupiter on Sunday, marking the mission’s first operational science pass with seven of the craft’s instruments active as the probe zipped past the Gas Giant at a speed over 200,000 Kilometers per hour.
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Japan’s sixth H-II Transfer Vehicle arrives at the International Space Station on December 13, 2016 after a flawless four-day flight to deliver nearly six metric tons of critical cargo to the Space Station including a new set of batteries to overhaul the station’s power system.
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Japan’s H-II Transfer Vehicle arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday for an out-of-this-world cargo delivery to the orbiting laboratory including the first batch of new batteries that will overhaul the ISS power system for the Station’s next decade of operations.
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Japan’s HTV-6 spacecraft, launched atop an H-IIB rocket on Friday, is inbound to the International Space Station for a robotic capture on Tuesday to mark the start of a 60-day stay for the delivery of important cargo including the first batch of batteries to revamp the ISS power system.
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The launch of NASA’s CYGNSS hurricane science mission had to be aborted on Monday due to a range of issues cropping up during an airborne countdown aboard the L-1011 aircraft carrying the Pegasus rocket toward an intended drop point over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dropped from a modified Jumbo Jet, a Pegasus XL rocket will power into orbit with eight miniature satellites on Monday, setting out to measure winds over the world’s oceans and peer into the inside of Hurricanes to reveal processes hidden from view by intense bands of rain.
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China’s Long March 3B rocket made a midnight-hour liftoff from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center Saturday night, carrying into orbit the first in the next-generation of Fengyun Geostationary Weather Satellites.
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China’s Shijian-17 satellite this week linked up with another satellite in Geostationary Orbit and has entered a path closely shadowing the resident object in continued testing of rendezvous and situational awareness technology in the high-orbit regime.
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Delays to the maiden flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, exacerbated by the prolonged stand-down of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket after a testing accident prompted satellite operator Inmarsat to move one of its payloads from a planned launch on Falcon Heavy to the European Ariane 5 rocket to ensure a mid-2017 liftoff.
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Japan’s H-IIB heavy-lift rocket arced into the night skies over Tanegashima Island on Friday, carrying into orbit the sixth H-II Transfer Vehicle on a critical supply run to the International Space Station and its six crew members.
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Japan’s H-IIB heavy-lift rocket arced into the night skies over Tanegashima Island on Friday, carrying into orbit the sixth H-II Transfer Vehicle on a critical supply run to the International Space Station and its six crew members.
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