The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus NG-10 resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen above the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, on Nov. 17, 2018. The rocket launched from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia that morning. Northrop Grumman’s 10th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 7,400 pounds of science
Due to persistent drenching downpours Northrop Grumman Antares rocket on the Cygnus NG-10 cargo mission had to stay another two days atop the On-Ramp to the International Space Station at pad 0A on NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Launch now reset to Nov. 17 at 4:01 a.m. EST. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/SpaceUpClose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –16 November 2018 NASA
Oceanside view of Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus NG-10 cargo freighter aboard bound for the International Space Station, is seen on Pad-0A, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Poor weather forced launch postponement to No Earlier Than NET Friday, Nov, 16, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/SpaceUpClose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –14 November 2018
Two Northrop Grumman Antares commercial rockets being processed for launch side by side inside the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Antares NG-10 rocket assembly at left is slated for launch Nov. 15, 2018 from pad 0A at NASA Wallops bound for the International Space Station. Antares NG-11 booster at right is scheduled
Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 9 November 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Skimming closer to the sun than any human-made object ever in human history, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record setting 1st close encounter with the sun on Monday, Nov. 5 – less than
Up Close view of Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket containing NASA’s ICON Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite attached to belly beneath the company’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft that deploys the probe at 39,000 feet. Seen here on the runway of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip, FL, on Nov. 2, 2018. No new date set yet after launch scrub
Artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft maneuvering above Ceres with its ion propulsion system. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – – 6 November 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s groundbreaking Dawn spacecraft has gone dark after exhausting all its maneuvering fuel – thus ending an 11-year mission to the two largest worlds in the main Asteroid Belt that
First European-built Orion Service Module (ESM) arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard Antonov An-124 cargo jet flying from Bremen, Germany on Nov. 6, 2018. The module was provided by the European Space Agency to propel NASA’s first Orion mission to the Moon in 2020 on the Space Launch System rocket. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM —
Photoshoot survey of the International Space Station by the departing Soyuz MS-08 crew on Oct. 4, 2018. Credit: Roscosmos/NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 5 November 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The most recent Soyuz crew to depart the International Space Station (ISS) snapped a spectacular set of survey photos of the outposts exterior during their farewell fly-around before
Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft is on the runway at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip, FL on Nov. 2, 2018. The company’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket, containing NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, satellite is attached to the belly beneath the aircraft. Launch NET Nov 7, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM— 3 November