A Russian-built Soyuz Rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at 11:54 UTC on May 18, 2017 – carrying out its second Geostationary Transfer Mission from Europe’s space port on the edge of the Amazon jungle.
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A Russian-built Soyuz Rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at 11:54 UTC on May 18, 2017 – carrying out its second Geostationary Transfer Mission from Europe’s space port on the edge of the Amazon jungle.
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The International Space Station completed a scheduled reboost maneuver on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 to adjust its orbit to set up the proper ground track for the landing of Soyuz MS-03 with a French-Russian crew duo on June 2.
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A powerful satellite is on its way to join Inmarsat’s Global Xpress fleet to deliver seamless global Internet and data connectivity to airline passengers, maritime crew and government users after successfully launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 23:21 UTC (7:21 p.m. EDT) on May 15, 2017 on a Supersynchronous Transfer Mission
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 23:21 UTC (7:21 p.m. EDT) on May 15, 2017 on a Supersynchronous Transfer Mission
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Blue Origin said Sunday that a set of powerpack hardware for the company’s BE-4 engine was lost as the result of a ground testing mishap, though no further information on any impacts on the planned BE-4 development program were clear at that point.
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NASA decided against putting a crew on the first flight of the agency’s upcoming heavy-lift Space Launch System which is now expected to occur some time in 2019 after slipping from the latest 2018 target, NASA said on Friday.
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A busy end-of-week spacewalk was performed outside the International Space Station on Friday by NASA Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer – racing through their task list after the EVA was shortened to four hours due to an airlock-related problem that prevented the crew’s space suits from fully charging their batteries.
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Sustaining a rapid turnaround pace at the company’s Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up its engines on Thursday in a final end-to-end test ahead of liftoff as early as Monday night with a high-power communications satellite for London-based operator Inmarsat.
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Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station are gearing up for the 200th spacewalk in support of ISS and Maintenance set for Friday to install a new payload controller on the Station’s truss,
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Aerojet Rocketdyne completed its Critical Design Review of the company’s AR-1 engine and is on track for certification of the engine for test flights in 2019, the company said in a press release on Monday.
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The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane returned from a secretive mission of over 700 days Sunday morning, landing at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility and greeting local residents with sonic booms as a wake-up call.
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Robots are busy outside the International Space Station Friday replacing a partially failed power switching box on the truss segment of ISS to fully restore the orbiting laboratory’s power system
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Friday on a mission to deliver the GSAT-9 satellite to orbit to eventually deliver TV and navigation augmentation services to India and other South Asian countries.
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 11:27 UTC on May 5, 2017 on a 17-minute climb to orbit with the 2,230-Kilogram GSAT-9 communications satellite
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 11:27 UTC on May 5, 2017 on a 17-minute climb to orbit with the 2,230-Kilogram GSAT-9 communications satellite
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