After a three month 21-day cruise through space to boil off excess propellant and fine tune a final approach to the moon, NASA’s LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission concluded Friday morning, as the companion Atlas V Centaur upper stage and the LCROSS satellite slammed into the Cabeus crater in the moon’s southern [...]
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DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite has been launched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on Thursday morning. The launch, which took place from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA at 11:51 (local) – slightly delayed from the scheduled T-0 due to a battery issue on the vehicle’s second stage.
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Ares I-X is on track to rollout of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on October 19 following the completion of several milestones and processing work relating to an issue involving 78 Upper Stage bolts. Meanwhile, the Constellation Program (CxP) have set September 2010 for a Human Lunar Return (HLR) Systems Requirements Review (SRR) summit.
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Atlantis is preparing to mate with her External Tank (ET-133) and twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), following rollover to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, engineers are finaling plans to protect the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) nozzles at the pad, following leaks on the last two missions, and an observation of [...]
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The first of what is scheduled to be the final three Launch Site Requirements Reviews (LSRRs) for the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) has been completed by managers at the Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) for the STS-132 mission - the 32nd and final “scheduled” flight of orbiter Atlantis, due to launch in May 2010.
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STS-129 is pressing ahead with the next processing milestone, with Atlantis preparing to roll over from her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-1) for the short journey to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the shipping dates have been set for the next two External Tanks (ETs) – both scheduled to arrive at the Kennedy Space [...]
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Completing a series of summer meetings relating the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), the Constellation Program (CxP) undertook a review of the CEV Aero-science Project (CAP). This review provided NASA and CxP with vital information on the critical-path aerodynamic and aerothermal analyses pertaining to the Orion crew capsule’s reentry and various launch abort modes that it [...]
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Arianespace have launched their fifth mission of the year via their latest flight of the Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The workhorse launched with the Amazonas 2 and COMSATBw-1 satellites, with lift-off on schedule at the start of a 71 minutes launch window that opened at 6:59 pm local time in French Guiana (5:59 Eastern [...]
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