Prime contractor Boeing recently completed Thermal Protection System (TPS) applications on the liquid oxygen (LOX) tank for Core Stage-1 (CS-1), the first NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage. The cryogenic propellant tank was moved out of Cell N at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans on June 20, where spray-on foam insulation (SOFI) was applied to the outside of the tank.
SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon that will fly the uncrewed Demonstration Mission -1 (DM-1) as part…
Restart of RS-25 rocket engine production is ramping up at prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Canoga…
The long sought attempt at launching a Russian Progress resupply vehicle to the International Space…
With the first half of 2018 in the books, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance’s near…
Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is preparing for a return to crew…
India took another step forward with its human spaceflight program, as ISRO tested the crew…
Three days after launching from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, SpaceX’s…
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft began its next mission to the International Space Station Friday, with launch…
Following an Independent Review Board report on the James Webb Space Telescope project, NASA has…
Rocket Lab is still trying to perform the first operational flight of its Electron rocket,…
Russia’s next attempt to leave Low Earth Orbit is currently scheduled to liftoff at the…
SpaceX is preparing to return to launch action with the CRS-15 Dragon mission to the…
When the S.S. J.R. Thompson (OA-9E) Cygnus arrived at the International Space Station last month,…
Virgin Orbit is just months away from the first launch of its LauncherOne rocket. The…
Crawler Transporter -2 (CT-2) is tracking an August road trip down the Kennedy Space Center…
The Japanese asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2, launched on December 3, 2014 aboard an H-IIA rocket…
Airbus Defence and Space is in the home stretch of work to ship the first…
For the second time in its career, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is hunkering down…
With Northrop Grumman’s acquisition of Orbital ATK complete, the newly-formed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems will…