US Human Path Back to Space Rising This Summer at ULA Launch Pad and Rocket Factory

By Ken Kremer, on March 21st, 2015

Launch Complex 41 gets a radical new look and use soon! Artist’s concept of Boeing’s CST-100 space taxi ready for liftoff atop a man rated ULA Atlas-V rocket showing new crew access tower and arm at Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fl. Credit: ULA

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, […]

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ULA Delivers Four-Spacecraft Flotilla on Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

By Ben Evans, on March 13th, 2015

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully flown its highly reliable Atlas V booster out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to deliver the four-spacecraft flotilla of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) into a Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) to explore the microphysics of “magnetic reconnection,” a process which converts magnetic energy into heat and […]

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Atlas V Ready for Thursday Night Launch to Deliver NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) to Orbit

By Ben Evans, on March 10th, 2015

Two of four mated NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observatories up close look at solar arrays and science instruments in the cleanroom at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on May 12, 2014. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com

United Launch Alliance (ULA) stands ready to conduct its third mission in as many months on […]

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NASA's MMS Fleet and the Science of Magnetic Reconnection

By Talia Landman, on March 9th, 2015

Artist’s concept of MMS, a mission to study how magnetic fields release energy in a process known as magnetic reconnection. MMS consists of four identical observatories that will fly in a tight formation and provide the first 3-D view of magnetic reconnection. Photo Credit: NASA

Another NASA mission is about to blast into […]

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NASA's MMS Fleet Ready for Mission to Study Magnetic Reconnection in Earth's Magnetosphere

By Mike Killian, on February 19th, 2015

All four of NASA’s MMS spacecraft in the clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., completed and stacked for launch atop a ULA Atlas-V rocket as early as March 12, 2015. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace

In a few weeks four identically-instrumented NASA spacecraft will launch on the space agency’s […]

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Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Spacecraft to Fly Through Earth’s Magnetic Reconnection Events for First 3-D Maps—NASA Administrator Bolden Visit

By Ken Kremer, on May 20th, 2014

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with the agency’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, mission personnel, Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese, and NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld, during a visit to the cleanroom at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on May 12, 2014. Credit: Ken Kremer- kenkremer.com

NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, […]

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