Rocket Lab’s innovative “Hungry Hippo” fairings for the Neutron rocket have arrived at Wallops Island, Virginia, marking a key milestone in preparations for the vehicle’s long-awaited debut flight. The arrival came days after Rocket Lab explained the rupture of a first stage tank during qualification trials.
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NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) from Florida…
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ChineseCommercialInternationalOtherSpaceX
Launch Roundup: Kuiper, Starlink, IMAP headline launch manifest
A busy slate of launches was planned for the last full week of September, including…
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EuropeanInternationalOtherScienceSpaceX
ESA’s Hera mission launched to asteroid binary as Falcon 9 returns to flight
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its…
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United Launch Alliance, formed in 2006 to merge the Boeing and Lockheed Martin launch vehicle…
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Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency, and Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope…
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OtherScienceUncrewed
Data from OSIRIS-REx reveals loose surface of asteroid Bennu and “early aging” of asteroids
Recently analyzed data from an asteroid surface-sample collection performed by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed…
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SpaceX has launched another 47 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. The liftoff occurred at…
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Continuing with their high launch cadence, SpaceX has successfully launched another Falcon 9, this time…
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Following a successful Starlink mission from Vandenberg, California, SpaceX has launched a second Falcon 9…
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Kicking off a busy end to the company’s 2021 launch campaign, SpaceX successfully launched a…
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Following a launch in late August and a month-long stay in orbit, SpaceX and NASA…
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As the Launch Integration Tower at the Orbital Launch Site (OLS) continues to grow, Elon…
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Both of SpaceX’s Florida launch pads are back into Starlink launch flow as the company…
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MAF continues tornado/hurricane recovery while building SLS stages under pandemic restrictions
by Philip SlossBoeing is moving into the final phases of standalone integration and outfitting of Core Stage-2…
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On 14 November 2014, a bright flash flagged the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae,…
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CommercialSpaceX
Preparing for “Earth to Earth” space travel and a competition with supersonic airliners
Commercial spaceflight companies are preparing to enter a new market: suborbital flights from one place…
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It’s one of the most baffling problems in astrophysics. If the solar surface is 5,500℃,…
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As the transition from government-owned crew launch rockets to commercial providers arrives, NASA launch integration…
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As world leaders grapple and struggle to control the coronavirus pandemic which leads to the…