NASA and the future of America’s space exploration plans are in a strange place at the moment. Not only have we seen sweeping changes at NASA—including pauses of key scientific committees due to executive orders signed by President Trump—but there are many questions surrounding the future of...
The article reports on the announcement by officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) that they are in the final stretch of evaluating several options for the replacement of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission. According to the board, the failure of the OCO...
The failure also could impact NASA's plans to launch its next long-duration crew to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the Crew 9 mission currently is targeted for around Aug. 19, but that assumes the SpaceX failure investigation is complete by then and that NASA concurs with the ...
SpaceX Launch Ends In Failure With Rocket Eruption CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CBSLA.com/AP)— An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and a first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to ...
Daniel Andrews, the LCROSS project manager from NASA's Ames Research Center, narrates this animation depicting the mission from launch through impact on the lunar surface. Play video Become a subscriber More video Taurus fails for OCO Environmental satellite lost in launch failure A Taurus rocket...
was appointed to lead the inquiry. The next Progress vehicle was scheduled to go to the station on October 28. The impact of the failure on the next manned launch of theSoyuz spacecraftscheduled for September 22 was yet to be determined, said Gennady Raikunov, the head of TsNIIMash resear...
The fixes seem easy in retrospect: conduct a better thermal analysis of the Fregat’s components and fix the design where the stages are made at NPO Lavochkin. But the launch is another Fregat failure, and a sign that the market is ready for other launchers. ...
After the incident, President Reagan established a special commission to conduct a long-term investigation. The investigation revealed that the Challenger’s demise was caused by a component failure. After launch, an O-ring on one of the shuttle’s rocket boosters failed to seal due to the cold...
The Falcon 9 is also human-rated; it has launched 13 crewed missions to date, nine of which have sent astronauts to the ISS for NASA. It's unclear how Thursday's failure will affect the rocket and its manifest at this point; SpaceX will first need to figure out exactly what happened ...
The launch failure that doomed NASA's Glory climate satellite this morning shouldn't affect plans for the Taurus rocket's builder Orbital Sciences to fly cargo ships – and possibly even crew spacecraft – for NASA, the company says.