In 2014, NASA is scheduled to launch a satellite that will greatly increase our understanding of this phenomenon when it launches the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a suite of four identical spacecraft that will study magnetic reconnection in the best possible laboratory - the Earth’s ...
After more than a decade of painstaking development and numerous delays, NASA’s new mega-rocket, the Space Launch System, willroll out into the open Florida air this afternoon, fully stacked and nearly ready to fly to space. Once in the great outdoors, it will embark on an 11-hour journ...
The decision to proceed with development of the new rocket came after a review known as Key Decision Point C, "which provides a development cost baseline for the 70-metric ton version of the SLS of $7.021 billion from February 2014 through the first launch and a launch readiness schedule bas...
At Kennedy Space Center the last week of April, I attended a “tweetup” sponsored by NASA for 150 of it’s Twitter followers. There to witness the launch of space shuttle Endeavour, we were given behind-the-scenes tours at NASA and listened to a number of astronauts, scientists, engineer...
NASA's Space Launch System Progress Report Nearing its first launch, the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA's new super heavy-lift launch vehicle, offers highly energetic launches that deliver more mass and provide more volume in 8.4 m-diameter and potentially larger fairings to mak... J Honeycu...
But subsequent unmanned abort system and Ares I launchtests before the first crewed flight may see additional schedule slips, programmanagers said. ?Ourconfidence that the gap will get no worse than five years has actuallyimproved,? Hanley added. A separate reportreleased Monday by the Aerospace ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a record-setting launch schedule for 1984---10 space shuttle flights (see Table 1), 10 satellite deployments from the space shuttle in orbit and 12 unmanned missions using expendable launch vehicles. Also scheduled is the launch on ...
“The spacecraft, Atlas V rocket and all range equipment are ready,” said NASA launch director Tim Dunn at today’s pre-launch news conference at the Kennedy Space Center. “And the combined government and contractor launch team is prepared to launch TDRS-M — a critical national space asse...
NASA expects to launch five Earth science missions this year, which is the biggest roster in more than a decade. They’ll track rainfall, seek water hiding in soil, and examine carbon dioxide and ocean winds around the world. Here’s a quick rundown of the busy launch schedule: ...
“I think we should launch around the moon in June of 2020, and I think it can be done. We need to consider as an agency all options to accomplish that objective,” Bridenstine said. “Some of those options would include launching the Orion crew capsule and the European service module o...