While Shuttle Program managers continue their review of potential launch dates for the final two shuttle missions, preparations on Discovery for what is currently her final flight are well underway at the Kennedy Space Center, with the Launch Site Flow Review (LSFR) for the STS-133/ULF5 mission outlining the modifications to be made to Discovery during [...]
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Orion’s role of transporting US astronauts into space has been reduced to little more than an assumption it may one day be involved in human space exploration, after contractor Lockheed Martin effectively washed its hands of the project due to fears relating to termination liability. With key procurements cancelled, the Denver-based company ‘moved’ 600 engineers [...]
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle has enjoyed a successful maiden flight on Friday, carrying a prototype Dragon spacecraft into orbit. Launch – at 2:45pm Eastern - came near the end of a four hour launch window, which was interrupted by an issue with the Flight Termination System (FTS) - several incursions into the Range, and an abort at T-3 [...]
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International Launch Services (ILS) – who recently signed contracts for three new satellite launches – have launched with the BADR-5 telecommunications satellite via their veteran Proton-M launch vehicle and Breeze-M upper stage on Thursday. Lift-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was on schedule at 22:00 UTC, ahead of over nine hours of flight until [...]
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China launched a new navigation satellite on Wednesday, using a CZ-3C Chang Zheng-3C (CZ3C-4/Y4) launch vehicle from the Xi Chang satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province. Launch took place at 15:53 UTC, as the new BeiDou-2 (Compass-G3) series continues to build the Compass constellation – joining three other satellites already orbit.
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Three members of Expedition 23 – Commander Oleg Kotov, Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi – onboard the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft, have landed successfully in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning local time. Meanwhile, a Russian Rockot has launched the SERVIS-2 satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia.
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