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Launch Complex 39C (LC-39C) is situated on the southeast side of LC-39B and will provide launch opportunities for a new market of Small Class Vehicles. Photo Credit: Talia Landman / AmericaSpace Many changes are currently taking place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to cater to the evolving space industry and […] 
Artist’s conception of the MarCO CubeSats flying past Mars as the InSight lander descends to the surface. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The next NASA mission to Mars, the InSight lander, will include some additional experimental technology: the first deep-space CubeSats. Two small CubeSats will fly past the planet as the lander is descending through […] 
LightSail captured this image of its deployed solar sails in Earth orbit on June 8, 2015. Photo Credit and Caption: The Planetary Society It’s not a true space mission without a little bit of drama, and The Planetary Society had just that. Unforeseen software glitches, spacecraft falling silent, and periods of no contact […] 
As KSC transitions to a multiuser spaceport, more and more opportunities are becoming available to businesses both big and small in the commercial space industry. Image Credit: Talia Landman / AmericaSpace Earlier this week NASA announced plans to build a new launch complex for small class launch vehicles at the agency’s Kennedy Space […] From The Planetary Society: “The Planetary Society’s LightSail solar sailing spacecraft is scheduled to ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to orbit in 2016 with its parent satellite, Prox-1.” Image Credit: Josh Spradling /The Planetary Society (http://sail.planetary.org/gallery/lightsail.html) The idea of solar sails carrying satellites and humans into space has been something bandied about […] Registration is now open for NASA’s latest Centennial Challenges technology prize competition, called Cube Quest Challenge. The competition will award up to a total of $5 million to any teams that will successfully demonstrate a CubeSat in-space operations and communications in lunar orbit and beyond. Image Credit: NASA With the much-anticipated, first test […] Artist’s conception of the new Dellingr 6U CubeSat. The advanced CubeSat could be deployed from the International Space Station by January 2016. Image Credit: NASA/Luis H. Santos An advanced new six-unit (6U) CubeSat is being designed by a NASA skunkworks team, for possible deployment from the International Space Station by January 2016. The […] The Space Head Module (SHM) is prepared for installation atop the Dnepr launch vehicle for the forthcoming flight of a record-breaking 32 satellites. Photo Credit: ISC Kosmotras Three months after successfully lofting South Korea’s KOMPSAT-5 environmental monitoring satellite, Russia is primed to launch its next Dnepr rocket early Thursday, 21 November, carrying a […] Stunning view of the Minotaur-1 booster rocketing away from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) with its record-setting payload of 29 satellites. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace / Dave Parrish Photography (www.daveparrishphoto.com) Slightly later than intended, Orbital Sciences Corp. has successfully flown its 25th Minotaur vehicle, with a spectacular liftoff from Pad 0B […] Mark Becnel, left, and his brother, Eric Becnel, with a mockup of the Chargersat-1 in the UAH Engineering Design and Prototyping Facility. The brothers plan to start a cube satellite production company after graduating with master’s degrees in aerospace engineering. Image Credit: Michael Mercier / UAH Two students soon to earn master’s degrees in […] |
 Next Launch Starlink 1 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL Scheduled for: TBD NET 23 May 2019 Click here for more details... 
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