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in NASA, Moon, Commercial, SpaceNASA Announces Contracts for VIPER Mission to Lunar South Pole
NASA has selected Astrobotic Technology, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Penn., to launch its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission, targeted to rise from Earth in 2023 and alight on the Moon’s shadowed south pole. The $199.5 million contract will see VIPER delivered to the surface of our closest celestial neighbor aboard Astrobotic’s home-grown Griffin lander, […] More
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NASA Outlines New Commercial Partnerships for Returning People to the Moon Within 10 Years
Today NASA announced more plans to get back to the moon, this time to stay, because science, with the goal of having boots on the ground within 10 years. And the space agency, which still remains the only entity to have ever sent people to another world during the Apollo era, will be heavily involved […] More
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in News, NASA, Commercial, KSC, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX, Falcon 9, Dragon, LaunchNASA & SpaceX Target Jan 7 For Uncrewed Test Flight of Crew Dragon to Space Station
Years in the making, NASA and SpaceX today announced January 7, 2019 as the target date to launch the highly-anticipated orbital flight test of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft (called Demo-1), which will roar towards low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station (ISS) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s […] More
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in NASA, Commercial, Orion, SLS, EM-1, Orbital ATKWatch Orbital ATK Test Fire NASA’s Orion Launch Abort System
As summer 2017 quickly gets underway, NASA’s Orion program is making steady progress on a series of different testing programs. In the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are evaluating Orion’s updated airbag splashdown system, while the team developing Orion’s parachute system just conducted another successful drop test of a mock crew capsule over the […] More
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in News, NASA, Commercial, FAA, International Space Station, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Dream Chaser, Edwards Air Force Base, Flight Test, Armstrong Flight Research CenterDream Chaser Passes Major CRS-2 Review Milestone, Next Flight Test Nears
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser ‘spaceplane’ is another step closer to reality this week, having passed a major milestone review by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the space agency’s multi-billion dollar Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) program to resupply the International Space Station from 2019-2024. More
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Midland Air and Space Port Achieves First Step Toward Becoming Dream Chaser Landing Site
This week Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) announced that the Midland, Texas, International Air and Space Port has achieved the first step toward becoming an approved landing site for SNC’s Dream Chaser “space plane,” which is currently under development. “Midland is already an FAA-licensed spaceport, making pursuit of Dream Chaser landing opportunities a logical next step,” said John […] More
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in NASA, Commercial, Space, ATK, Wallops Flight Facility, Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, Commercial Space, CYGNUS, Antares, Orbital ATK, OA-5Through the Lens: Antares Returns to Flight on OA-5 Mission for NASA
On Monday night, Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket blasted off from Wallops Island, Va., for the first time in nearly two years since the Orb-3 launch accident. It marked the inaugural launch of the company’s new upgraded version of the rocket as well as its first night launch. Tens of thousands flocked to the Virginia shore […] More
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in AmericaSpace, Commercial, ISS, Space, ATK, COTS, International Space Station, Dragon, Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, Ben Evans, astronaut, Missions, low earth orbit, CYGNUS, ORB-4, CRS-8As OA-4 Cygnus Departs, Commercial Cargo Providers Prepare for Busy Visiting Vehicle Manifest
Friday morning’s unberthing and departure of Orbital ATK’s OA-4 Cygnus cargo ship from the International Space Station (ISS)—wrapping up the first U.S. visiting vehicle mission of 2016, as well as marking the longest stay-time of any commercial provider at the orbital outpost—has cleared the way for a busy slate of unpiloted missions from NASA’s commercial […] More
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in NASA, AmericaSpace, Commercial, Space, NOAA, Falcon 9, Ben Evans, satellite, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Vandenberg AFB, Launch, Missions, JASON-3SpaceX Primed for Final Falcon 9 v1.1 Launch on Sunday
Less than 28 months since its maiden voyage—which delivered Canada’s low-Earth orbiting Cascade, SmallSat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer (CASSIOPE) aloft, back in September 2013—SpaceX stands ready to close out a remarkable chapter in its short history tomorrow (Sunday), as it stages the last launch of its “standard” Falcon 9 v1.1. Slated to boost the Jason-3 […] More
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in News, AmericaSpace, Commercial, Space, Ben Evans, Missions, ORBCOMM, SpaceX OG2 M1, SpaceX OG2 M2SpaceX Returns to Flight and Returns to Land with Rousing OG-2 Launch
Having suffered the catastrophic loss of a Falcon 9 v1.1 booster during first-stage flight on 28 June—which doomed NASA’s first International Docking Adapter (IDA) and vaporized a critical piece of hardware in support of the agency’s Commercial Crew ambitions—it might be supposed that 2015 has been the worst year in SpaceX’s history. A gradually burgeoning […] More
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in News, NASA, Commercial, Space, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX, Commercial Crew Development Program, Ben Evans, astronaut, Space CoastSpaceX Receives First Order for Space Station Crew-Exchange Mission from NASA
Both of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program partners—Boeing and SpaceX—now have mission orders to deliver their first long-duration crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) in the coming years, thereby restoring the capability to launch U.S. astronauts aboard U.S.-built vehicles, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space […] More
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in News, Commercial, Space, Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo, USA, suborbital, Commercial Space, Technology, Flight TestVirgin Galactic’s New SpaceshipTwo Nearing Completion as Return to Flight Tests Push to 2016
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, a reusable suborbital “spaceplane” for flying tourists and other paying customers to the edge of space and back, is coming together in Mojave, Calif. The major build of the spaceship itself, which is being led by The Spaceship Company, a subsidiary of Virgin Galactic, is expected to be complete “soon, within months,” according to […] More
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