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in NASA, SLS, Space Launch SystemBoosters for First SLS Artemis Moon Rocket Arrive at KSC
The launch of Artemis-1 has drawn a step closer to returning a human-capable spacecraft to the Moon, following Northrop Grumman Corp.’s announcement on Monday, 15 June, that segments of the twin solid-fueled boosters assigned to the first Space Launch System (SLS) had arrived safely at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Each 177-foot-long (53.9-meter) […] More
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Atlas V Primed for First U.S. Space Force Launch Thursday with AEHF-6
For only the second time this year, the roar of an Atlas V will break the early afternoon stillness of Cape Canaveral on Thursday, when United Launch Alliance (ULA) aims to deliver its first major payload to orbit on behalf of the newly-inaugurated U.S. Space Force. Liftoff of AEHF-6—the sixth and final member in a […] More
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NG-13 Cygnus Begins ISS Chase with 8,000 Pounds of Cargo for Space Station
The roar of rocket engines shook Wallops Island, Va., earlier today (Saturday, 15 February), as the first of two Northrop Grumman Corp. Cygnus missions planned for 2020 began its journey to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the Antares 230+ booster occurred at 3:21 p.m. EST from picturesque Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport […] More
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Antares to Launch NG-13 ISS Resupply Tonight from VA, Spacecraft Named After Robert Lawrence
As America honors Black History Month through February, Sunday’s scheduled sunset launch of the next Northrop Grumman Corp. Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) appropriately memorializes Robert H. Lawrence, the U.S. Air Force major who became the first African-American to be selected for astronaut candidate training and might—had the hands of fate turned […] More
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Antares Ready for Saturday Launch from Virginia to Resupply ISS (NG-12)
Even as its NG-11 spacecraft continues to circle the Earth, Northrop Grumman Corp. stands primed to launch a second Cygnus cargo mission of 2019 to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, 2 November. Liftoff of the first Antares 230+ booster—a never-before-used variant of the rocket, which boasts structural improvements and better payload-to-orbit capability—is due […] More
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Artemis Updates
This is the first of what AmericaSpace.com hopes are many updates of the Artemis system on a regular basis to bring you, our readers, up to speed on progress of the primary components of the Artemis system, the Orion spacecraft and SLS launcher. This article is meant to bring readers up-to-speed on the current condition […] More
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ULA Primed for 80th Atlas V Launch with USAF ‘AEHF-5’ Satellite Thursday Morning
For the tenth time in its history, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will fly the most powerful member of its Atlas V fleet at 5:44 a.m. EDT Thursday, 8 August, when a 551 booster—boasting a 17.7-foot-diameter (5-meter) payload fairing, five strap-on solid-fueled rockets and a single-engine Centaur upper stage—rises from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 at Cape Canaveral […] 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 SpaceTenth Antares Booster Ferries NG-11 Cygnus on Late-Afternoon Flight to Space Station
Six years to the week since its inaugural launch, the liquid-fueled Antares rocket roared aloft from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Va., earlier today (Wednesday, 17 April), to deliver the next Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS). Flying for the tenth time (though only its ninth […] More
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Antares to Launch NG-11 Cygnus from VA April 17, Honors Apollo 1 Hero Roger Chaffee
Roger Chaffee never got to fly in space. Selected by NASA as a member of the space agency’s third group of astronauts—alongside future Moonwalkers Al Bean, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Gene Cernan—he was the youngest of his class and in March 1966 drew his first plum flight assignment as pilot of the first manned […] More
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ZUMA Presumed a ‘Total Loss’ After Falling Into Ocean, Say Officials
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that two anonymous government officials familiar with the classified ZUMA mission, launched by SpaceX on Jan 7, declare the payload a “total loss” after falling into the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite, which reportedly cost upwards of $1 billion or more, is believed to have failed to reach orbit after […] More
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Webb Launch Slips to 2019 for Integration and Testing Delays at Northrop Grumman
The launch of NASA’s multi-billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has slipped from October 2018 to sometime between March and June 2019, following a recently conducted schedule assessment by NASA which determined integration and testing of the spacecraft’s bus and sunshield at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California will take longer than expected. More
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