It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: Tuesday was a momentous and historic day in the history of space exploration as SpaceX successfully conducted the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket – a heavy lift vehicle capable of placing 140,000 lbs into Low Earth Orbit. But beyond the sheer numbers of its capabilities, Falcon Heavy has ushered in a new era and continues to fulfill SpaceX’s promise to create a more open access environment to the space beyond Earth orbit.
Reviewing the week in spaceflight and upcoming events, it’s been another busy period, including NASA…
Action finally returned to the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) as…
While SpaceX has captured headlines with its first test flight of Starship, Blue Origin, the…
Starship’s first orbital flight is currently planned for March. This is the first time the…
With Monday’s launch of the Shiyan-20A satellite aboard a Chang Zheng 4C rocket, China has…
Boeing, the prime contractor for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage, is adding two…
A fully stacked Starship is still set to conduct the next round of tests for…
60 years ago, on May 8, 1962, Atlas-LV3C Centaur-A – designated Atlas Centaur-1 (AC-1) –…
Astrobotic, a Pittsburg-based lunar lander company, has fully assembled the test model for its largest…
Blue Origin has sent another crew of six to space with the launch of their…
Cape Canaveral has been at the heart of America’s space program since the very beginning.…
Right now, several methane-fueled rockets are in a race to orbit. With Starship from SpaceX,…
When NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program and prime processing contractor Jacobs have configured the…
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) program is preparing to serve its role in the agency’s…
Amid a year of momentous developments in commercial spaceflight, including the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission and…
After completing months of tests and assembly, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is in…
On August 10, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka launched on an Antares 230+ rocket from Pad-0A…
A month after New Shepard’s first flight carrying people into space, a science flight without…
On Friday, July 23, NASA announced that SpaceX was the winner of a commercial procurement…
