Tag: commercial-space
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NASA’s deputy chief echoes JFK in a pitch for commercial space ventures
NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard, at left, receives congratulations from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine after a swearing-in ceremony last October. (NASA Photo / Joel Kowsky) WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA’s No. 2 official channeled President John F. Kennedy today in a pitch designed to please space industry executives. “We choose to commercialize low Earth orbit,” Deputy Administrator…
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Watch a spectacular slow-motion replay of last week’s Ariane 5 launch
Arianespace and CNES, the French space agency, have released sensational slow-motion video from shielded engineering cameras at the Ariane 5 rocket’s launch pad in French Guiana, showing the launcher’s fiery evening takeoff Feb. 5 with communications satellites for Saudi Arabia and India. The nearly 18-story-tall Ariane 5 lifted off at 6:01 p.m. local time (2101…
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Virgin Galactic’s pilots get first commercial astronaut wings awarded in 15 years
Wearing their astronaut wings, SpaceShipTwo test pilots Rick Sturckow and Mark Stucky face the cameras as Virgin Galactic’s billionaire founder, Richard Branson, flashes a thumbs-up sign. (FAA / Virgin Galactic Photo) Two Virgin Galactic test pilots are now wearing the first commercial astronaut wings to be awarded since SpaceShipOne’s historic spaceflights in 2004. Last December’s…
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First flights for SpaceX and Boeing space taxis face further delays, NASA says
An artist’s conception shows Boeing’s Starliner capsule and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon craft. (NASA Graphic) NASA says the flight test schedule for space taxis designed by SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station has been stretched out further, as expected. And it wouldn’t be surprising if additional postponements occur in…
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Arianespace opens busy 2019 manifest with dual-satellite Ariane 5 launch
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Two communications satellites owned by Saudi Arabian and Indian operators rocketed into orbit Tuesday on top of a European Ariane 5 rocket, the first of up to 13 launches planned from French Guiana this year. The 167-foot-tall (51-meter) Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at…
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Arianespace opens busy 2019 manifest with dual-satellite Ariane 5 launch
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Two communications satellites owned by Saudi Arabian and Indian operators rocketed into orbit Tuesday on top of a European Ariane 5 rocket, the first of up to 13 launches planned from French Guiana this year. The 167-foot-tall (51-meter) Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 launches satellites for Saudi Arabia and India
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Hellas-Sat 4/Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1 communications craft and the Indian GSAT 31 telecom satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast will begin approximately 15 minutes before launch…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 launches satellites for Saudi Arabia and India
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Hellas-Sat 4/Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1 communications craft and the Indian GSAT 31 telecom satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast will begin approximately 15 minutes before launch…
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Telesat taps Blue Origin to launch broadband satellite fleet
Artist’s illustration of the New Glenn rocket in flight. Credit: Blue Origin Telesat has selected Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to “play a key role” in delivering potentially hundreds of broadband communications satellites into low Earth orbit under a multi-launch agreement announced last week, as Telesat officials prepare to select between two industrial teams to…
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Telesat taps Blue Origin to launch broadband satellite fleet
Artist’s illustration of the New Glenn rocket in flight. Credit: Blue Origin Telesat has selected Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to “play a key role” in delivering potentially hundreds of broadband communications satellites into low Earth orbit under a multi-launch agreement announced last week, as Telesat officials prepare to select between two industrial teams to…