With the first flight of the Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS2) contract for NASA, Northrop Grumman debuted an upgraded Antares rocket. The new Antares 230+ permits greater up-mass capability to the International Space Station to meet the CRS2 contract requirements from NASA.Â
Launch of the NG-12 Cygnus mission from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia occurred at the opening of a 5-minute launch window at 09:59:47 EDT (13:59:47 UTC) on Saturday, 2 November 2019.
In an unusual situation, Roscosmos launched the Soyuz MS-14 crew vehicle without any humans aboard. …
After 110 days at the International Space Station, the Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS) NG-11…
As part of standard planning among the international partners, NASA has revised its Visiting Vehicle…
Roughly 37 hours after launching from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s…
It might be the final CRS1 (Commercial Resupply Services 1) contract flight for both the…
As the S.S. John Young (NG-10) Cygnus mission came to an end today, Northrop Grumman…
Europe’s ATV-5 cargo ship helped ‘shove’ the International Space Station (ISS) out of the path…
The Chinese have launched another new satellite in the military’s Yaogan Weixing series via the…
The Chinese have conducted another surprise launch, this time with the Long March 4B rocket…
Closing a four month gap since the previous orbital launch, China successfully launched the Yaogan…
Another “secret” Chinese launch took place on Wednesday, when a Long March 4C orbited the…
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted yet another secretive launch on Tuesday morning (local time),…
Another super-secretive launch took place on Sunday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center as China…
The Chinese have launched the Chinasat-11 (Zhongxing-11) communication satellite via a Long March 3B/E (Chang…
The Chinese have launched the ChinaSat-12 (Zhongxing-12) communications satellite into orbit via a Long March…
Following the postponement of the Zhongxing-12 (ChinaSat) communications satellite launch, the Chinese kept up their…
Four days after the launch of Tianhui-1B mapping satellite, China has launched a new optical…
China has launched a new remote sensing satellite on Tuesday, with the YaoGan Weixing-13 satellite…
