Missions carried by both United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX are targeting liftoff on Thursday, August 4, setting up the first double header from an increasingly busy spaceport.
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Preview of New Gateway exhibit at KSC Visitors Center
The future of space travel will come to life at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex with the opening of its brand- new attraction on June 15, Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex
Boeing’s Starliner on track to launch crucial NASA test flight to space station on Thursday
Teams with NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance held a launch readiness review yesterday, (May 17), for Orbital Flight Test-2, which will send an uncrewed Starliner on a shakeout cruise to the orbiting lab. Everything went well, keeping Starliner on course to lift off atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on Thursday at 6:54pm EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
James Webb Space Telescope 1st images & a Selfie
The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.
ULA’s Vulcan launch delayed to mid-2022 due to Blue Origin engine delay
United Launch Alliance a year ago was projecting a 2021 debut for Vulcan Centaur, a heavy-lift rocket powered by the BE-4 engine made by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
ULA to launch USSF-8, CLassified Satellite
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch the USSF-8 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command. The launch is on track for Jan. 21
Space Retrospective 2021: This Year In Space
2021; the second year amidst a global pandemic. The year that began with a proverbial bang in the United States, when only six days in, a capitol riot ensued. Yet, despite this chaos, our work in space has never been brighter or as eventful as this one has been.
Atlas V 511 Rocket Assembled at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The USSF-8 mission will use United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Atlas V 511 rocket to deliver the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) spacecraft into orbits approximately 22,300 miles above Earth. Launch is targeted for Jan. 21.
NASA’s Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids
NEXT LAUNCH: Oct.16th
NASA’s Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids