After the recent successful launch of SSC‘s National Security mission, ULA issued the following statement. United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the company’s 100th national security mission to orbit with […]
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GO! ULA for Tuesday’s U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command secret mission launch and the last national security mission for Atlas V, Vulcan is next rocket in future
Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the USSF-51 mission for the United States Spaces Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC). The mission is planned to lift […]
China successfully launches new satellite group
China successfully launched the Tianhui 5-02 satellite group at 6:49 a.m. Friday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province. The satellite group was carried by a modified […]
Ariane 6’s wet dress rehearsal
The launch of the European Space Agency’s all-new Ariane 6 rocket gets ever-closer. Last week technicians at ESA’s Kourou, French Guiana spaceport completed a full ‘wet’ dress rehearsal of the […]
ULA’s statement — United Launch Alliance successfully launches first crewed Starliner
The inaugural human spaceflight launch marks the beginning of a new era for ULAFor the first time in history, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V carrying NASA astronauts aboard […]
ULA signs Bollinger Shipyards and Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. to create transport ship for Vulcan rockets
ULA announced that it has signed agreements with Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana and Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. in Bristol, Rhode Island, to design, oversee and build a new ship […]
Russia successfully launches Angara A5 rocket on third attempt
Russia successfully launched its Angara A5 space rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday afternoon after two aborted liftoff attempts earlier this week. The heavy-lift rocket was initially scheduled for […]
ULA Delta IV Heavy scrubbed at T-00:03:58 update to ‘issue’
THURSDAY EVENING UPDATE TO THE FORMER ANNOUNCEMENT: The launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy carrying the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office was scrubbed due to […]
Tomorrow is ULA’s historic final launch for Delta IV Heavy carrying NROL-70
Thursday’s historic launch of NROL-70 relates a partnership between the NRO and ULA that began with the first launch in 2006 that now totals 34 consecutive successes. ULA’s Wednesday update […]
Lonestar launches Independence their first lunar data center test mission payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 enroute to the Moon
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. successfully launched its advanced lunar data center test mission, “Independence,” which began its voyage to the Moon as a customer payload with Intuitive Machines aboard their […]