With the fate of the Constellation Program at this juncture of time all but a certainty, Program officials are, nonetheless, pressing ahead with testing of the Orion crew capsule design. Specifically, current testing on Orion’s design is geared toward EVA egress/ingress procedures and mechanics for the four person capsule that was supposed to serve as a replacement, later this decade, for the retiring Shuttle fleet.
As part of the on going effort within the Constellation Program to finalize the design…
Amazon’s announcement of three launch contracts totaling 83 flights split across Ariane 6, Vulcan, and…
China launched the Xuancheng-1 mission onboard a Chang Zheng 2C from Xichang today. The launch…
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano explosively erupted in Tonga in January, the world was…
Led by Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman, the newly announced Polaris program aims to demonstrate multiple…
SpaceX has provided some interesting context into its plans to launch vast numbers of next-generation…
Arianespace and Russian-French company Starsem launched 36 OneWeb satellites to Low Earth Orbit aboard Soyuz…
SpaceX has launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites on the Starlink v.0 L21 mission…
SpaceX launched their third mission of 2021 and the first of many planned Smallsat Rideshare…
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) expressed its concern about the integrated computer testing capabilities…
A 12 year campaign – including a two year, eight launch process – came to…
The Orion Program has concluded its drop test series for the spacecraft’s parachute system, with…
Orbital ATK’s Pegasus rocket finally launched on Thursday, carrying NASA’s CYGNSS environmental research satellite constellation…
China launched the first satellite of a new orbital meteorological constellation. The Yunhai-1 (01) was…
China launched a new high-resolution remote sensing satellite on Monday around 03:17 UTC using the…
India has launched a PSLV rocket carrying the IRNSS-1G navigation satellite. The launch, which took…
Crawler Transporter 2 (CT-2) has completed all of the necessary modifications to upgrade it to…
The Space Launch System (SLS) management have set the milestones and dates for the upcoming…
ATK’s test facility in Promontory, Utah is now officially looking forward to the next full-scale…
