Orbital Press Release: ORBITAL-BUILT SATELLITES EXCEED 1,000 YEARS OF CUMULATIVE IN-ORBIT OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE — Company’s 30-Year History Includes 146 Satellites Built and Launched, With 81 Currently in Full Operations — (Dulles, VA 11 March 2013) – Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced that it recently achieved […]
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It is definitely space themed weekend in the Lone Star State. After meeting with a Texas House of Representatives committee yesterday to discuss a potential commercial spaceport in Cameron county, SpaceX founder Elon Musk delivered a keynote address at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin. But that wasn’t all, during the speech Musk showed new footage of a Grasshopper test flight, […]
SpaceX founder Elon Musk is in Austin, Texas today, where he will be testifying before an appropriations committee of the Texas House of Representatives regarding his proposed plan to build a commercial launch facility for Falcon rockets in Cameron County, near Brownsville and only a few miles from the Mexican border. Among the four contenders for the site; Florida, Texas, […]
Source: Arianespace The Ariane V booster for the next ATV headed for the International Space Station was moved from the Launcher Integration Building to the Final Assembly building yesterday at the equatorial launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch of the ES version of the world’s undisputed heavy lift champion is currently scheduled for sometime […]
One of the many innovative features of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft resupplying the International Space Station is the fact that it can haul a wide variety of un-pressurized cargo in the disposable trunk section mounted behind the craft’s heat shield, where it also serves as the mounting platform for the solar array. The trunk, which […]
A team of scientists working at NASA’s JPL and Cal-Tech studying Jupiter’s moon Europa, have found evidence of a chemical exchange between the frozen, radiation swept surface and a liquid ocean which is believed to exist beneath an ice pack nearly 60 miles thick. Using spectrographic analysis of surface ice taken from the Keck II telescope […]
For the first time ever, astronomers may have captured a direct image of a planet being born. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team based in Switzerland found what appears to be the birth of gas giant planet around the star HD 100546, 335 light years away from Earth. The […]
After a delayed start to rendezvous operations, NASA and SpaceX made up a little lost time on Dragon’s CRS-2 delivery mission to ISS. With Draco thruster burns beginning late yesterday evening to reach the station, NASA managers began proximity operations and captured Dragon nearly an hour ahead of schedule. For those who have followed each of three mission to […]
SpaceX just released the following: Dragon is GO for approach to station early Sunday morning! SpaceX and NASA managers have evaluated data, and unanimously agree that Dragon’s propulsion and other systems are functioning well. Grapple targeting 6:00 AM ET / 3:00AM PT, with attachment to the ISS targeted for approximately 10:00AM ET / 7:00AM […]
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