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Wednesday Starlink Launch to Kick Off Record-Setting Month for SpaceX
Only days after seeing off its first mission for the U.S. Space Force, SpaceX again stands primed to conduct as many as four Falcon 9 flights in July, with two dedicated Starlink/rideshares, South Korea’s first dedicated military communications satellite and an Argentinian Earth-observation platform waiting in the wings to make this its busiest month on […] More
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SpaceX Launches Fifth Batch of 60 Starlink Satellites
This morning, SpaceX’s rocket ‘B1048’ flew its fifth and final mission, deploying the company’s fifth batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. And while the primary mission went well, the rocket missed its landing and therefore will never be used again. More
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Watch SpaceX Launch Starlink-5 from Florida
UPDATE – Launch was aborted just before liftoff. No word yet on a new date for the next launch attempt. For the first time on Sunday, a five-times-used Falcon 9 booster will spear aloft from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to kick off SpaceX’s sixth overall mission of 2020. Although a […] More
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in SpaceSolar Orbiter Launches to the Sun, Kicking Off Ambitious 2020 Manifest for ULA
Rocket launches out of Cape Canaveral, whilst not necessarily an everyday sight, do tend to have a measure of regularity about them. But Sunday night’s spectacular 11:03 p.m. EST launch of Solar Orbiter—a European Space Agency (ESA)-led mission which will venture nearer to the Sun than ever before, achieve higher heliographic latitudes and even “hover” over portions of our […] More
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Weather Forces SpaceX to Push In-Flight Abort to NET Sunday
UPDATE – NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 8 a.m. EST Sunday, Jan. 19, for launch. The abort test has a six-hour launch window. Teams are standing down from today’s launch attempt due to poor splashdown and recovery weather. For tomorrow’s launch attempt, meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing predict a 60% […] More
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in SpaceBoeing’s Starliner ‘Calypso’ Returns to KSC Following Orbital Flight Test
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule which recently flew the Orbital Flight Test mission for NASA is now back at its homeport at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Boeing is now putting the spacecraft through an extensive post-flight analysis and processing. The company invited AmericaSpace and other media to visit the capsule and speak with […] More
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in SpaceNASA, SpaceX Target Jan 18 for Major In-Flight Abort Test of Crew Dragon
SpaceX already kicked off America’s new decade of spaceflight recently with a picture-perfect launch of their Starlink-2 mission, but their next flight is far more important, because it will be the final major hurdle before NASA certifies SpaceX to begin flying astronauts on their Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon to and from the International Space […] More
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NASA’s First ‘Artemis’ Moon Rocket Loaded for Trip to Stennis to Begin Major Test Fire Campaign
On Wednesday, NASA and its Space Launch System (SLS) partners reached a major milestone with the completion and roll out of the 212 foot (64.62 m) long Artemis 1 SLS Core Stage from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF), loading it onto the Pegasus barge for delivery to nearby Stennis Space Center where it will […] More
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in News, NASA, KSC, Kennedy Space Center, Boeing, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Technology, LaunchStarliner Aims for Dec 20 Launch Debut Following Good Wet Dress Rehearsal
NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA) have had one busy week at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), where operations have been in full swing in preparation to launch America’s next crew capsule on its inaugural flight later this month on a major uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) to and […] More
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in News, NASA, KSC, Kennedy Space Center, ArtemisFirst Engine Installed on SLS as NASA Orders More Rockets, Conducts Pathfinder Ops at KSC
NASA is full steam ahead with the Space Launch System, as years of development and manufacturing continue transitioning into flight hardware final assembly and integration for the upcoming Artemis moon missions after the turn of the decade. The agency just ordered a third rocket core and is finalizing details with Boeing for a contract of […] More
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in SpaceNASA Launches Orion Crew Capsule on Milestone In-Flight Abort Test
The sun wasn’t the only spectacular sight seen rising over Florida’s ‘Space Coast’ this morning, as NASA just cleared a major milestone and hurdle on the road to returning humans to the moon with a successful in-flight abort test of their Orion crew capsule. More
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in SpaceWhy Trump’s Space Tweets Matter
President Trump, in a tweet on June 7th at 1:38 PM, publicly put himself at odds with a policy directive that he himself signed just a year-and-a-half ago. That directive, Space Policy Directive 1[1], signed on December 11, 2017, changed space policy by amending the Presidential Policy Directive–4 of June 28, 2010[2]: More
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