After being shipped to Florida in early August, NASA’s most daring asteroid exploration mission yet — Lucy — is now in final launch preparations as the opening of its interplanetary transfer window to Jupiter nears.
With the launch date just two weeks away, the mission’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Hal Levison, spoke with NASASpaceflight about the mission’s trajectory and what might become of Lucy once its 12-year primary mission has ended.
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program and prime launch support contractor Jacobs are working to…
United Launch Alliance has launched NASA’s most powerful Earth-imaging satellite, Landsat 9, on an Atlas…
The launch of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory is now targeting December 13,…
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan pathfinder has rolled out to SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral for tank…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos are preparing for the 2022 launch of the…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has made their second launch of 2021 with a…
In addition to supporting the upcoming first launch of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS)…
Seventeen years after Sir Richard Branson watched SpaceShipOne win the Ansari X-Prize, the English entrepreneur…
The joint NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has passed its critical final mission analysis…
The first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage is now being readied for the program’s…
United Launch Alliance (ULA), Boeing, and NASA have all started their final preparations for the…
The integrated operations team of NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and prime launch processing contractor…
NASA is currently forecasting that Artemis 2 will be ready to launch no earlier than…
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program and Stages prime contractor Boeing are collaborating on optimizing…
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) programs are working with Core…
Engineers with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program and prime Core Stage contractor Boeing continue…
After a five month grounding, Vega returned to flight following a launch failure in November…
Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet, and Akihiko Hoshide have arrived at the Kennedy Space…
Boeing is moving into the final phases of standalone integration and outfitting of Core Stage-2…
