Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne and its 747 carrier aircraft “Cosmic Girl” have launched the US Defense Department’s STP-27VPB mission along with three commercial satellites. The launch occurred on Thursday, January 13 at approximately 2:51 PM PST (22:51 UTC). Cosmic Girl took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port before flying out to the launch zone near the Channel Islands off the southern California coast.
After years of payload preparation, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched one of the company’s most-challenging…
Rocket Lab launched their Electron rocket for its second launch of 2019. In its sixth…
International Space Station (ISS) managers are conducting a series of meetings to discuss problems relating…
STS-119’s opening launch attempt has been scrubbed until Sunday, March 15,, following a LH2 leak during…
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 launch vehicle successfully launched Thursday night with…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) managers have concluded that there is no risk to their Atlas…
NASA has announced that Shuttle Atlantis’ launch has been postponed to at least Tuesday. Further…
SpaceX has announced a further postponement of the launch of their Falcon 1 rocket for…
The International Space Station has received another cargo delivery, essential for keeping the Station’s seven-person…
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, docked an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station…
Rocket Lab, which has operated its Electron small-satellite launcher successfully from New Zealand since 2017,…
NASA’s InSight lander, formally known as the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat…
At the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on Jan. 11, three teams…
The latest Falcon Heavy mission launched Sunday, Jan. 15, at 5:56 PM EST (22:56 UTC)…
Two NASA astronauts conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, Dec.…
A planned spacewalk aboard the International Space Station on the evening of Dec. 14 involving…
In low Earth orbit (LEO) this week, NASA, Roscosmos, and the China National Space Administration…
At 06:48 UTC on Nov. 2, Russia’s Soyuz-2.1b launched from Site 43/4 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome,…
SpaceX and NASA have launched a group of four astronauts to the International Space Station…
