On Tuesday, March 11 at 8:10 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched NASA’s SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]
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SpaceX to launch Koreasat-6A on Veterans’ Day to improve the positioning and navigation performance by GNSS
SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 11 for launch of the Koreasat-6A mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-hour window […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard ready to test NS-27 the newest booster on Monday’s launch
On Monday, October 7th, at 6:00 AM – 1:30 PM PDT, Blue Origin plans the launch of the twenty-seventh flight of New Shepard from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn […]
OSIRIS-REx sample capsule safely touches down with NASA’s first asteroid sample
Following a rapid and red-hot descent through Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down in the desert at 8:52 a.m. MT on September 24th, returning NASA’s first-ever, asteroid […]
Intuitive Machines’ first mission to the Lunar South Pole region shifts per NASA
Intuitive Machines, LLC (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a space exploration, infrastructure, and services company, is collaborating with NASA to prioritize the return of lunar scientific data in support of […]
USSF’s X-37B orbital test vehicle concludes a sixth successful mission
The U.S. Space Force’s unmanned, reusable spaceplane — the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) — successfully de-orbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility after a successful […]
Sierra Space + Spaceport America sign Dream Chaser® spaceplane landing site agreement
Sierra Space and Spaceport America have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that adds the New Mexico spaceport to Sierra Space’s portfolio of potential, global, landing sites for the […]
SpaceX Shoots SARah 1 Swiftly Spaceward
SpaceX continues to attract industry, media and the public’s attention as the second of three scheduled launches successfully occurred on June 18 at 7:19 a.m., PT, 14:19 UTC, for a […]
AFSPACE Becomes The Fifth U.S. Space Command Service Component
The Department of Defense (DoD) has designated First Air Force as ‘Air Forces Space’ (AFSPACE) and the fifth service component to U.S. Space Command. The change postures First Air Force […]
SpaceX Completes Two Starlink Launches In Two Days For A Total Of 106 Constellation Companions
On Friday, May 13th, at 3:07 p.m. PT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, […]