The United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have reached a critical milestone in advancing cislunar Space Situational Awareness (SSA) with […]
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch delayed again until Monday due to rough waters
Blue Origin is opting to delay again the launch of New Glenn due to unfavorable weather conditions. Blue Origin’s spokesperson said, “Sea state conditions are still unfavorable for booster landing. […]
Norway officially licensed to launch at Andøya Spaceport
Less than one year after the opening of the Norwegian spaceport at Andøya, Andøya Spaceport has reached yet another important milestone towards the first launch of satellites from Norwegian soil. […]
Rocket Lab’s successful first hot fire of Archimedes engine for Neutron rocket
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), provider in launch services and space systems has successfully hot fired its new rocket engine Archimedes for the first time, reaching a critical technical […]
UPDATE Boeing has a problem — too many astronauts and not enough ISS parking spaces
NASA will be sending more astronauts to the ISS in the next few weeks shuttled by SpaceX however the two stranded NASA astronauts taken aboard Boeing’s Starliner, and delivered to […]
Blue Origin’s New Glenn debuts on launch pad
The New Glenn vehicle successfully rolled out and upended today for the first time on the pad at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36). This milestone represents the first view of the […]
NASA’s 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine test is all fired-up
NASA has achieved a new benchmark in developing an innovative propulsion system called the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE). Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, successfully […]
Firefly Aerospace completes 1st Miranda engine hot fire test
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, completed the first hot fire test for its Miranda engine that will power the first stage of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and […]
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s initial RS-25 certification campaign of 12 hot-fire tests completed
Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA recently completed a certification test series for the new RS-25 production engines that will propel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) exploration rocket for Artemis missions, starting […]
ARIANE 6 on the launch pad prepped for hot-ire tests
As part of the combined tests campaign, the Ariane 6 mobile gantry was retracted on June 22nd, unveiling the launch vehicle on the launch pad. During a rehearsal representative of […]