Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has delivered two Explorer-class spacecraft to Kennedy Space Flight Center for NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, in partnership with the […]
Mars
The Mission: Blue Origin’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter
Blue Origin designs and manufactures heavy-lift rockets, transporters, landers, and orbiters to explore the Red Planet efficiently and affordably—built upon the company’s existing and affordable Blue Ring platform, the firm’s […]
The Mission: Blue Origin’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter
Blue Origin designs and manufactures heavy-lift rockets, transporters, landers, and orbiters to explore the Red Planet efficiently and affordably. Built upon the company’s existing and affordable Blue Ring platform, the […]
NASA’s Mars mission, stuck on Earth, will get a second chance
NASA plans to send a pair of EscaPADE probes to Mars as part of the second launch of the New Glenn rocket. This is stated in the draft budget of […]
Airbus to design and build ESA’s ExoMars rover lander platform to be designed + built by Airbus
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Thales Alenia Space (TAS – a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%)), the ExoMars industrial prime contractor, […]
SpaceX plans Monday launch of Starship’s seventh test flight
The seventh flight test of SpaceX’s Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, January 13, at 2:00 PM – 3:38 PM PST from Starbase in South Texas. A […]
Rocket Lab awarded NASA study contract to explore bringing rock samples from Mars to Earth
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected by NASA to complete a study for retrieving rock samples from the Martian surface and bringing them to Earth for the […]
NASA and Boeing welcome the uncrewed “Starliner’s safe return” to Earth
NASA and Boeing safely returned the uncrewed Starliner spacecraft’s return to Earth following its landing at 10:01 p.m., MDT, on September 6th at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, […]
SpaceX’s UPDATE: Polaris Dawn still on hold
Weather still remains the reason for the SpaceX Poaris Dawn delay. Late yesterday this announcement was provided. No further information has been provided by SpaceX regarding the upcoming Polaris Dawn […]
SpaceX’s Polaris Program Tuesday launch is a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities
SpaceX’s Polaris Program will launch on Tuesday, August 27 from Kennedy Space Center at 12:38 – 4:09 am PDT. The forecast calls for a temperature of 82°F, clear skies, 8% […]