While Crew-9 is SpaceX's first crewed launch from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, it's not the first flight for this Dragon capsule. The spacecraft was used to launch NASA's Crew-4 mission and two private Axiom Space missions to the ISS - Ax-2 and Ax-3 - making thi...
BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- China is projected to make about 100 space launch missions this year, setting a new record for the country, according to information released at a press conference on Monday. The launches include the maiden flight from China's first commercial spacecraft launch s...
accelerative stress that the vehicle’s structure or payload can withstand. In manned spaceflight an acceleration about six times that of gravity is considered the maximum tolerable when thehuman bodyis positioned perpendicular to the acceleration force—i.e., with the head and heart at the same ...
Perhaps most well-known of all Space Force assets is the X-37B, the Boeing-built space plane whose missions remain largely mysterious despite many high-profile long-duration flights in orbit. Since the creation of the Space Force, the service has largely turned to commercial launch providers to...
Trump picks intel community official as next Air Force secretary If confirmed, Troy Meink would inherit key decisions about the Air Force's fighter force and how to right-size the Space Force as it takes on new missions. 5 weeks ago ...
Musk:The next version of Falcon 9 will be used for everything. The last flight of version 1.0 will be Flight 5. All future missions after Flight 5 will be v1.1. We've got this mission, which is Flight 3. And we've two CRS [Commercial Resupply Services] missions, Flight 4 and Flig...
SpaceX early Saturday launched another 21 Starlink satellites aboard a record-setting Falcon 9 first-stage booster from Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. ... more Super-precise satellite time synchronization achieves picosecond accuracy Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2025 A cutting-edge carr...
Air Force, but still below the Kármán line. The VSS unity space plane flew just 32 times, including non-space test flights. It was used in 12 crewed spaceflights in total. The final flight occurred on June 8, 2024. Virgin Galactic is now favoring its new "Delta Class" of spacecraft...
Although the advantages and disadvantages of stationing force-delivery weapons in space have been debated, as of the early 21st century, such weapons had not been deployed, nor had space-based antisatellite systems—that is, systems that can attack or interfere with orbiting satellites. The ...
The United States Space Force is the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces, whose mission is to lead space-related military operations within the U.S. Department of Defense.