After completing its journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge, teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) transport the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florid...
10, 2014 at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. The 74-second trial run took the Morpheus lander prototype 467 feet (142 meters) above the ground, soaring more than 160 feet (48 meters) higher than its last test, according to NASA. The experimental lander then...
A fit check of the Orion Crew and Service Module Horizontal Transporter (CHT) with NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft is underway March 13, 2019, at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida, operated by Space Florida. (NASA image) BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY...
Preparations are underway to offload NASA’s Psyche spacecraft from the C-17 aircraft it arrived aboard at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida on April 29, 2022. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett The Psyche spacecraft will use solar-electric propulsion to travel ...
The journey will cover 900 miles from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in Orleans to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The installation of the pedestals began on July 10, 2024. The Pegasus barge, which transported space shuttle external tanks previously, has been redesigned and renovated to ...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, undergoing final tests in a clean room at a facility near Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA/Frank Michaux About the spacecraft Psyche The probe’s body is about the same size and mass as a large SUV. Solar panels, stretching a bit wider t...
The 6,000-pound GOES-T weather satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, was placed inside the fairing at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, about 10 miles from the launch site. The fairing, together with the satellite safely secured inside, will be placed atop a United...
The outage also hit servers that host procedures meant to overcome such an outage and hindered SpaceX's ability to transfer mission control to a backup facility in Florida, the people said. Company officials had no paper copies of backup procedures, one of the people added, leaving them unable...
BOULDER, Colorado -- Hurricane Katrina is howling its way through Louisiana and has caused damage at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the site where space shuttle external tanks are assembled.
NASA's Psyche spacecraft, undergoing final tests in a clean room at a facility near Florida's Kennedy Space Center.NASA/Frank Michaux About the spacecraft Psyche The probe's body is about the same size and mass as a large SUV. Solar panels, stretching a bit wider than a ...