Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is progressing through a series of parachute drop tests, refining the technology for returning the spacecraft back home safely. However, NASA’s safety advisory body has cited certification concerns about a major element for the spacecraft’s ride to space, specifically the RD-180 engine used by the Atlas V launch vehicle.
The U.S. Congress is debating the reinstatement of a purchasing ban on Russian RD-180 engines –…
ATK has provided additional details about its domestic alternative to the Russian-built RD-180 engine currently…
There are two words that most people never want to hear at a rocket launch,…
The Atlas rocket family, a staple of the US launch industry since June 11, 1957,…
At 19:20 UTC on Oct. 21, Russia’s Soyuz-2.1v rocket launched from Site 43/4 at Plesetsk…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched the dual-manifested SES-20 & 21 telecommunication satellites on the…
United Launch Alliance was in action Thursday, using an Atlas V rocket to deploy a…
United Launch Alliance has deployed a pair of Space Force technology demonstration payloads into geostationary…
Nine months after valve issues caused its previous launch attempt to be scrubbed, Boeing’s Starliner…
60 years ago, on May 8, 1962, Atlas-LV3C Centaur-A – designated Atlas Centaur-1 (AC-1) –…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-T advanced weather satellite…
United Launch Alliance carried out an Atlas V launch Friday with the third pair of…
On December 14, 2006, a Delta II rocket launched from VAFB (Vandenberg Air Force Base)…
ULA (United Launch Alliance) launched its 90th flight with an Atlas V rocket and its…
NASA and ULA (United Launch Alliance) launched NASA’s next asteroid exploration mission — Lucy —…
United Launch Alliance has launched NASA’s most powerful Earth-imaging satellite, Landsat 9, on an Atlas…
Boeing has scrubbed Tuesday’s planned launch of their Starliner spacecraft on its second uncrewed Orbital…
NASA and Lockheed Martin are another step closer to the launch of their Lucy Trojan…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched an Atlas V from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41)…
