The latest resupply mission to the International Space Station got off to a perfect start yesterday evening with the launch of an Ariane V rocket carrying the Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV-4, “Albert Einstein.” There is one more ATV planned for ISS, after which the European Space Agency will supply a modified version of the propulsion […]
The countdown is underway at Kourou, French Guiana for this evening’s launch of the European ATV supply ship “Albert Einstein” to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled aboard the Ariane V booster at precisely 6:52:11 p.m. local (5:52:11 p.m. US EDT.) Today’s launch will mark the fourth flight of the Automated Transfer Vehicle, and the heaviest […]
Stratolaunch announced yesterday that following a 9 month courtship, it is entering into a development arrangement with Orbital Sciences Corporation to secure the booster for the behemoth, twin boomed aircraft currently being built by Scaled Composites at Mojave. NBC News Science Editor Alan Boyle shed a little more light on the arrangement yesterday on his […]
Based on a tweet from company founder Elon Musk, it appears that SpaceX has begun full-scale testing of all 9 engines for the Falcon 9-R at the company’s McGregor, Texas development facility. Musk tweeted ” 1st firing of Falcon -R advanced prototype rocket. Over 1M lbs thrust, enough to lift a skyscraper,” accompanied by the image above. Musk later clarified the comparison […]
For anyone with even a passing interest in the night sky, there has probably never been a better time to be alive. Almost weekly, we are learning more and more about the worlds which surround us, a fact underscored last week when radar imaged passing Near Earth Asteroid 1998 QE2 complete with its own tiny “moon.” One of […]
NASA Press Release RELEASE : 13-166 NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones HOUSTON — The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The testing is part […]
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