NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in its final, home-stretch of processing prior to its scheduled launch which is now No Earlier Than (NET) 6 August 2018 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The mission, which will be humanity’s first to “touch the surface of the Sun”, is preparing for encapsulation inside its payload fairing at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida – after which it will be mated to the top of the launch vehicle.
With the first half of 2018 in the books, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance’s near…
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have attached the Parker…
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket beat the weather and launched a…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully conducted a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) on Thursday for its…
For the first time since 1981 NASA test flew a new vehicle designed to carry…
The Exploration Flight Test -1 (EFT-1) Orion has taken her final journey on terra firma,…
The stars are aligning for the December 4 debut mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, following…
The long-awaited debut flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft has been scheduled for a morning launch…
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV conducted a morning launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base…
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy – that is set to launch the…
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket has made its twentieth launch Friday morning…