Coming soon: Sierra Space’s mini shuttle, Dream Chaser, which will attempt to deliver cargo to the station later this year, before accepting passengers. It is due to launch on ULA’s new Vulcan rocket, the eventual successor to the Atlas V. ___ The Associated Press Health and Science...
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And that's just the crewed side of private spaceflight. SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets currently carry satellites to orbit, as does Firefly Aerospace's Alpha, Rocket Lab's Electron, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, Arianespace's Ariane 6 and Vega, and a handful of priv...
United Launch Alliance expects its new Vulcan rocket to make its inaugural launch later this year, hoisting a private lunar lander to the moon at NASA’s behest. Europe’s Arianespace is close to launching its new, upgraded Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana in South America. And NASA’s...
Closer to home, NASA and Astrobotic will hold a media telecon on Wednesday to discuss the NASA payloads on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander that’s scheduled for launch Christmas Eve on theinaugural flight of ULA’s Vulcan rocket. This is the first of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...
The IM-1 mission, as it's called, will launch Intuitive Machines' first Nova-C spacecraft to the moon from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in a predawn flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is scheduled for 1:05 a.m. EST (0605 GMT). If all goes well, the Nova-C land...
ULA’s new rocket won’t fly its first Space Force missions until 2025 Even if ULA's Vulcan rocket is certified in the coming weeks, time is running out to fly the missions before the end of the year, an official said.
rocket, named for Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard’s 1961 suborbital hop. NASA will use New Glenn to send a pair of spacecraft to Mars in 2024. United Launch Alliance expects its new Vulcan rocket to make its inaugural launch later this year, hoisting a private lunar lander to the ...
is launching a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office designated NROL-70. This is the last launch of a Delta rocket, which has evolved considerably since the first in 1960. ULA has a nicevideotracing the history. ULA is replacing Delta and Atlas with the new Vulcan, which ...
However, he said, ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, which will compete against SpaceX’s Falcon 9, needs to launch soon. The much-delayed heavy-lift rocket is now set to blast off inearly 2024. “We need Vulcan. It’s a couple years late to show up to the party. And...