CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Following a belated but spectacular nighttime blastoff on Tuesday, Sept. 24 and a four day orbital chase Japan’s unpiloted HTV-8 cargo freighter arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday morning, Sept. 28 and was attached to the complex after grappling by NASA astronauts maneuvering Canada’s robotic arm – capping a hugely busy week of space action that ends
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The 21 story tall core stage pathfinder vehicle for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on the agency’s upgraded Pegasus barge under sunny skies this afternoon, Sept. 27, for about 4 weeks of critical testing and stacking exercises in support of the Artemis moon exploration program aimed at landing US astronauts
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Less than 24 hours apart a pair of critical crew and cargo spaceships successfully launched back to back to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 24 & Sept. 25 – the Japanese HTV-8 cargo freighter from Japan and Russia’s Soyuz MS-15 crew vessel from Kazakhstan respectively, making for a hugely busy week of space action! Thus
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL/MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY, LA – After years of effort and much delay engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have finally completed the assembly of the main structural components of the first core stage for the agency’s mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket. Boeing workers attached the last of five sections of the 212-foot-tall core stage on Sept. 19 –
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL/MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY, LA – NASA’s Pegasus barge is set to deliver the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder vehicle to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida for critical testing in support of the Artemis moon exploration program aimed at landing US astronauts on the lunar south pole by 2024. The core stage is scheduled to arrive in
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Tons of cargo and a trio of crewmembers are set to launch back to back to the International Space Station (ISS) this week a day apart on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 24 and Sept. 25 on a pair of critical high profile missions from Japan and Russia – making for a hugely busy week of space action! First up is
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – For the first time ever researchers have detected water vapor signatures in the atmosphere of an exoplanet beyond our solar system that resides in the “habitable zone,” the region around a star in which liquid water could potentially pool on the surface of a rocky planet, according to NASA. The discovery of the first exoplanet with water vapor in a habitable zone
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have taken the agency’s SUV-sized Mars 2020 rover for a spin so to speak. And its all in the name of science ! As assembly of the Mars 2020 rover nears completion, the team needs to determine the six wheeled robots center of gravity so that it can travel smoothly and safely as she
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The first aircraft set to fly on another planet – namely NASA’s Mars Helicopter – has now been attached to the belly of NASA’s 2020 rover which will deliver it to the surface of the Red Planet during a soft landing via the skycrane maneuver targeted for Jezero Crater in Feb. 2021. “Engineers attached NASA’s Mars Helicopter, which will be the
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The two major halves of NASA’s mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been mechanically assembled together for the first time by prime contractor Northrop Grumman – marking a major milestone on the path to launch in Spring 2021. Engineers at Northrop Grumman’s Redondo Beach, California facility carefully and methodically combined the science instrument and telescope module