L3Harris recently reached a significant milestone when it shipped its fifth Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), a critical component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Joint Polar Satellite System […]
Weather Forecasting
SpaceX sends off ESA’s Hera planetary defense mission to study NASA’s astroid redirection
Florida’s weather held steady on Monday, October 7, enabling SpaceX to launch the ESA Hera mission to interplanetary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space […]
SpaceX to launch ESA’s Hera to study Didymos asteroid on Monday, weather permitting
On Monday, October 7th, at 7:52 AM – 8:27 AM PDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX plans to launch Hera, for the European Space Agency, on […]
ULA’s Vulcan launches second certification flight for U.S. Space Force “all rockets are not created equal”
United Launch Alliance (ULA) ushers in a new era of space capabilities with the successful launch of its second certification flight (Cert-2) of the next generation Vulcan rocket on Oct. […]
ULA’s Vulcan calm before the Cert-2 Friday launch… weather permitting
Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Vulcan launch carrying the Cert-2 mission. The mission is planned to lift off on Friday, October 4 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape […]
ULA says GO! signs Launch Readiness Certificate for Friday’s Vulcan Cert-2 mission launch
The Launch Readiness Review (LRR) is GO for Friday’s liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket on the Certification-2 (Cert-2) flight test. Liftoff is scheduled for 6:00 a.m. EDT […]
ULA L-3 Update Vulcan Cert-2 mission ready for launch
Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Vulcan launch carrying the Cert-2 mission. The mission is planned to lift off on Friday, October 4 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape […]
SpaceX postpones Monday’s OneWeb satellite constellation launch due to a booster mishap after Crew-9 launch — to resume after “we better understand root cause”
The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to send up 20 microsatellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation from Vandenberg Space Force Base, originally planned for late Sunday night, has […]
SpaceX, at zero to 4,000 mph in less than three minutes, begins NASA’s Crew-9 astronauts’ journey on way to ISS
Cape Canaveral’s weather cooperated on September 28, despite hurricane Helene, making it possible at 1:17 ET for SpaceX to send NASA’s Crew 9 astronauts, NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and […]
SpaceX’s Saturday launch of the Crew-9 astronauts’ mission tenuous due to Helene
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Saturday, September 28, at 1:17 p.m. EDT due to Tropical Storm Helene, for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s ninth operational human spaceflight […]