Tag: Boeing
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NASA, Boeing further delay Starliner Crew Flight Test launch amid ongoing helium leak review
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 N22 rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on top as seen the day before its planned May 6 launch. A problematic valve caused the mission to scrub two hours before liftoff. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Ongoing analysis of a helium leak on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft forced NASA and Boeing…
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News from the Press Site: New SpaceX spacesuits and China’s Chang’e 6 reaches orbit around the Moon
In this week’s edition of News from the Press Site, Spaceflight Now’s Will Robinson-Smith is joined by Jeff Foust, senior writer at Space News, and Bill Harwood, space consultant for CBS News. The panel discusses the upcoming valve work being done to ready ULA’s Atlas V rocket for the Starliner Crew Flight Test, China’s Chang’e…
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News from the Press Site: Boeing approaches first astronaut mission with Starliner
In this week’s edition of News from the Press Site, Spaceflight Now’s Will Robinson-Smith is joined by Rachel Jewett, Senior Managing Editor for Via Satellite, and Joey Roulette, U.S. Business of Space Correspondent for Reuters. The panel discusses the pending launch of Boeing’s first crewed Starliner mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s Office of…
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News from the Press Site: Boeing Starliner gets go ahead for Crew Flight Test
In this week’s edition of News from the Press Site, Spaceflight Now’s Will Robinson-Smith is joined by Tariq Malik, editor-in-chief of Space.com, and Passant Rabie, space reporter for Gizmodo. The panel discusses the arrival of the NASA astronauts who will be the first to fly onboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, the reestablishment of contact with the…
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NASA astronauts arrive at Kennedy Space Center ahead of Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (left) and Suni Williams (right) pose by their mission patch following their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the run-up to the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now For the first time since the end of the shuttle program, a trio of T-38 jets cruised…
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Boeing, ULA roll Starliner spacecraft out to pad 41 ahead of Crew Flight Test launch in May
The CST-100 Starliner spacecraft pauses in front of Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) before it embarks to Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update 10:41 a.m. EDT: Added additional timing information regarding work at the VIF and a statement from Boeing regarding the…
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Boeing, NASA target May 1 for first crewed flight of Starliner to the space station
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) pose in front of a graphic of the mission patch for the Starliner Crew Flight Test. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now NASA is five weeks away from putting astronauts aboard a new commercial crew capsule. May 1 is the target launch date for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft…
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Cargo Dragon docks at space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Tuesday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Closing out an automated 18-hour rendezvous, a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with 7,000 pounds of supplies and equipment, including two add-on roll-out solar blankets, caught up with the International…
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SpaceX launch sends upgraded solar arrays to International Space Station
Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX’s 28th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] SpaceX’s 28th resupply mission to…
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Third set of upgraded solar arrays ready for ride to International Space Station
Update at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 UTC): SpaceX has announced the launch has been delayed until Sunday “to allow more time for vehicle preparations and for weather conditions to improve”. Launch time on Sunday would be at 12:12 p.m. EDT (1612 UTC). Ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center prepare an upgraded roll-out solar array…