— SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket failure forces NASA to evaluate astronaut launch schedule for ISS "It also allows us to put two crew missions pretty close together, back-to-back, and see where we are if we need to do that," he added. "So I think it's it's neat to have a backup capab...
On October 16th, the Atlas 5-401 carrier rocket of the United Launch Alliance launched NASA's Lucy asteroid probe from the Cape Canaveral Space Station. The rocket ignited and took off at 5:34 Eastern Time (17:34 Beijing Time). The separation of the weap
NASA is officially targeting 2020 for the first test flight of its long-delayed Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, but it may not launch until mid-2021, an agency official said.
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NASA launched the Artemis program'sfirst test flight, Artemis 1, in November 2022, using the agency's powerful Space Launch System heavy lift rocket to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a flight around the moon and back. NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2...
Long Beach, Calif. August 16, 2024– Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, has successfully packed and shipped two Mars-bound spacecraft to Cape Canaveral, FL in pre
Across two Electron launches in 2024, Rocket Lab will deploy NASA’s PREFIRE mission to study naturally occurring radiation at the Arctic to better understand its impact on melting glaciers, sea ice, clouds and water, and climate modelling and forecastin
Those challenges, they said, include an ambitious launch schedule and a lack of transparency about that planned timeline, as well as the program's price tag. "NASA has not developed a comprehensive estimate for all Artemis costs," Scott said. (He noted that a 2021 report by the NASA ...
NASA is preparing for a critical test of its next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System, ahead of the Artemis-1 launch this spring. Artemisrefers to NASA's program to return humans to the moon by 2025, and this time the plan will be to build a sustainable presence on the moon...
audit work identified significant delays in other major programs essential to a lunar landing, including the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule. Moreover, delays related to lunar lander development and the recently decided lander contract award bid protests will also preclude a 2024 landin...