NASA originally planned to launch the Clipper last week, but mission managers ordered a delay to avoidHurricane Milton, which swept across Cape Canaveral on Thursday. An additional one-day slip was ordered to resolve a technical issue and while details were not provided, the rocket was c...
NASA is prepping for an ambitious extraterrestrial mission. In concert with the European Space Agency, NASA plans to launch rock samples from Mars (currently being collected by the Perseverance rover) and send them to Earth, an endeavor aptly named the "Mars Sample Return Campaign." The U.S...
In comparison, the situation facing NASA could become more serious. On November 4th, for the fourth time since April 2022, NASA rolled its first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to KSC’s LC-39B pad for a third launch attempt. Due to a combination of the storm’s quick growth and the...
“On test day, engineers will power up all the core stage systems, load more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic, or supercold, propellant into the tanks, and fire the rocket’s four RS-25 engines at the same time to simulate the stage’s operation during launch, generating 1.6 million po...
SpaceX to launch water-hunting moon probe 'Lunar Trailblazer' on Feb. 26 The fetch rover will bring Perseverance's samples to the MAV. The rocket will launch into Mars orbit, where ESA's Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) will grab its sample-filled container. The ERO will then haul the samples...
The EFT-1 mission will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket, which will boost an unmanned Orion capsule on a two-orbit flight around the Earth. Once in space, the craft will rise to more than 3,600 miles (5,800 kilometers) above the pla...
NASA is conducting one of the last major tests of its new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft before its first uncrewed mission to the moon.
来自美国宇航局.(The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, Oct. 27, 2014, at NASA"s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Original from NASA .) 奋进号航天飞机从发射台起飞39A在佛罗里达州的美国宇航局肯尼迪航天中心, 8 八月. 2007. 来自美国宇航局.(Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from ...
Years went by, reading space exploration missions, then aspiring to meet Elon Musk (the one who rebelled? Right?) — I started to realize how far away I was from actually becoming a rocket scientist. Anyhoo — I ended up becoming an engineer, an Electrical Engineer. Spoiler alert, I neve...
While the hearings were going on, NASA also announced an even cheaper satellite launch vehicle derived from the Shuttle: known as “SRB-X”, which would be comprised of three of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) used on Saturn IX and the Shuttle, and a Centaur upper stage. SRB-X...