ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury lifts off on ESA Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 9:45 p.m. EDT 19 October 2018 (01:45:28 GMT 20 October 2018) beginning a 7 year journey to Planet Mercury. Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 19 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Combining the vast forces and talents of the European and
Renowned cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, Roscosmos Executive Director for Manned Flights, speaks to the reporters in Moscow about the Soyuz failure. Credit: Roscosmos Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The emergency abort of the Soyuz crew launch with two crewmembers strapped inside on Oct. 11 was apparently caused by a failure in the booster separation
Streaking to Orbit: United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF-4 jam resistant military communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force blasts off shortly after midnight liftoff to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) in this long duration exposure photo on Oct. 17, 2018 at 12:15 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the AEHF-4 milcomsat for the U.S. Air Force is poised for midnight liftoff to GTO on Oct. 17, 2018 at 12:15 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on a national security mission. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 16 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL
Roll to Pad: Atlas V AEHF-4. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the AEHF-4 mission for the U.S. Air Force rolls from the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Oct. 15, 2018 for Oct. 17 liftoff. Credit: United Launch Alliance Ken Kremer —
USAF awarded contracts valued at over $2 Billion to ULA, Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin to develop new prototype rockets for National Security Space launches. Collage Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 12 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The U.S. Air Force announced a trio of contracts to develop rocket prototypes for future National Security Space launches
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft is launched with Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. During the Soyuz spacecraft’s climb to orbit, an anomaly occurred, resulting in an abort downrange. The crew was quickly recovered and is in good condition. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill
Launch of the Russian Soyuz rocket and Soyuz MS-10 capsule with a two person American Russian crew on Oct, 11, 2018 that failed shortly after liftoff and forced an abort and emergency landing. Credit: Roscosmos Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 11 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The two person America Russian crew made a steep but safe emergency landing
Illustration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a burn of its main engine for arrival at target Asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018. Credit: University of Arizona Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 9 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling spacecraft successfully completed the first in a series of critical main engine firings in early October that significantly slowed
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 9 October 2018 TITUSVILLE, FL – NASA’s premiere space observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, entered safe mode after suffering a serious glitch with one its onboard gyroscopes this past Friday, Oct. 5. One of the current gyros used to aim and stabilize the telescope has failed.