The SpaceX operated Dragon CRS-28 cargo ship on behalf of NASA was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket at 1547 GMT on 5 June 2023 on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A. Update...
At 0346 GMT on 26 May a Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket launched itself on a mission for NASA from the Mahia pad 1B in New Zealand. On board were a pair of TROPICS spacecraft: TROPICS SV-03 and TROPICS SV-07. The spacecraft were deployed into a 556 x 537 km orbit at...
Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
NASAs TROPICS 5 and TROPICS 6, having originally been planned to be launched on a completely different rocket (the launch was moved from an Astra Rocket 3 after a launch failure destroyed an earlier TROPICS pair), and then launched from a new location (New Zealand...
NASA astronaut Steve Bowen was joined by UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi for an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS). After depressurisation of the Quest airlock, the airlock hatch was opened at...
NASA has announced the names of the astronauts who will take part in the Artemis II “around the Moon” mission in 2024. They are: NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman (Commander) and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The...
