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Drones on Mars? Small ‘Helicopter-Like’ Scout Could Be Added to Mars 2020 Rover Mission
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Through the Lens: SpaceX’s Fifth Dragon Resupply Launch to ISS in Stunning Imagery
In the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, SpaceX kicked off the United States’ busy 2015 space launch manifest with their fifth NASA-contracted Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS). Onboard the $100 billion orbiting science research outpost is over 5,000 pounds of supplies, cargo, and experiments for the Expedition 42 […] More
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WATCH: Up-Close Launch Pad Cameras Capture Antares ORB-3 Explosion in Frightening Detail
For the NASA press corps, specifically the photojournalists responsible for capturing suicidal up-close images at liftoff, camera setups for the recent launch attempt of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket on the Orb-3 mission was as usual, but the outcome was anything but. Everyone knows that a rocket can explode, and although the odds are […] More
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Orbital Sciences Awarded Contract to Launch Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Mission
Orbital Sciences Corporation this week secured a $56.3 million firm-fixed price launch services contract to deliver the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission to orbit for NASA in the summer of 2017. The mission, which is led by the University of California, Berkeley, with oversight by the Explorers Program at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in […] More
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Sierra Nevada Outlines Challenges and Opportunities for Landing Dream Chaser at Public Airports
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) may not have been awarded a multi-billion dollar commercial crew contract by NASA, but that isn’t stopping the company from moving forward with plans for their Dream Chaser. The fact is the spacecraft’s unique lifting-body winged design offers numerous potential applications that no other existing spacecraft can, and the aerospace community […] More
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Meet NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, the Next Step in Landing on Mars
Anyone even remotely familiar with landing spacecraft and payloads on other worlds can respect how difficult such a feat really is, and it only gets more difficult as the spacecraft get larger and heavier. Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, each roughly the size of a golf cart, had to parachute in and land while cocooned […] More
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Navy Blue Angels and Other Aviators to Headline Florida’s Annual Sun N’ Fun This Week
Central Florida is known for space, whether it’s launching rockets with spacecraft on missions to enhance national security, support operations on the International Space Station, or explore worlds such as Mars. This week, however, the attention turns to one of the biggest, and most popular, aviation events in the world, one which promises to wow […] More
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Dream Chaser Successfully Completes Flight Profile Review, Passes CCiCap Milestone 4A
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is quietly, but steadily, moving forward swiftly with the development of their reusable Dream Chaser spacecraft, and today SNC announced the successful completion a “flight-profile data review” milestone for Dream Chaser (as is required under the company’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability “CCiCap” agreement with NASA). More
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NASA F/A-18 Hornets Conduct Vital Testing for SLS Flight Control System
For some time now work has been under way to develop NASA’s replacement launch vehicle for the agency’s retired space shuttle fleet, the Space Launch System (SLS for short). The mammoth rocket will be the most powerful and capable heavy-lift launch vehicle ever designed, and last week a NASA F/A-18 Hornet research jet conducted the […] More
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PHOTOS: NASA Ready to Send MAVEN on Half-Billion Mile Journey to Mars Monday
The clocks are ticking and the launch team at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41 in Florida is preparing to send NASA’s next Mars-bound spacecraft on an epic half-billion mile journey to reveal the secrets of the Red Planet’s climate history. The $620 million Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, or MAVEN, is […] More
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Dream Chaser’s First Flight a Historic Success Despite Landing Gear Issue
On Saturday, Oct. 26, Sierra Nevada Corporation put their Dream Chaser engineering test article through its first free flight Approach and Landing test, or ALT-1, at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. The important flight test, a first since the late 1970s with NASA’s space shuttle test article Enterprise, performed flawlessly up until the command […] More
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Dream Chaser Suffers Landing Gear Failure After First Free Flight Test
On Saturday, Oct. 26, Sierra Nevada Corporation put their Dream Chaser test article through its first free flight Approach and Landing test, or ALT, at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. The important flight test appears to have gone as expected until an anomaly was encountered with the left landing gear deployment, which […] More
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Dream Chaser Back On Track for Free Flight Tests by End of the Year
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the company developing the Dream Chaser spaceflight vehicle, is back on track to conduct a series of Approach and Landing tests (ALT) after the government shutdown halted work at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California earlier this month. With the shutdown now over, work has resumed to complete pre-flight qualifications […] More
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