Tag: commercial-space
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Blue Origin sends NASA-backed payloads to space and back on suborbital rocket ship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lifts off from its West Texas launch site. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent eight NASA-sponsored scientific payloads to the edge of space and back on its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, marking another step toward putting people on board. The rocket lifted off…
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Boe pulled from commercial crew test flight due to medical issue
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Eric Boe poses as he exits the Boeing crew capsule mock-up at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Eric Boe, one of three astronauts assigned to the first piloted test flight of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner commercial crew ship later this year has…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon briefly fires engines in test
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Crew Dragon spacecraft. Text updates will appear automatically below. The crew access arm at launch pad 39A extended to the Crew Dragon spacecraft when the Falcon 9 was on the…
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Live coverage: Delta 4-Heavy launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket with the National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-71 payload. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Note: We are not able to provide the coverage you have come to expect for this launch due to a decision by United Launch Alliance.…
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Delta 4-Heavy rocket launches U.S. spy satellite into unusual orbit
A Delta 4-Heavy rocket, comprising three hydrogen-fueled first stage boosters connected together, lifted off at 11:10 a.m. PST (2:10 p.m. EST; 1910 GMT) Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: United Launch Alliance A top secret surveillance payload owned by the National Reconnaissance Office soared into space Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in…
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Relativity Space obtains Air Force approval for Cape Canaveral launch pad
Launch startup Relativity Space has won approval from the U.S. Air Force to take over a disused launch pad at Cape Canaveral for the company’s methane-fueled Terran 1 rocket, a 3D-printed launcher that could carry small satellites into orbit by the end of 2020. Relativity announced Jan. 17 the Air Force approved the company’s plan…
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Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches seven tech demo satellites
A Japanese Epsilon rocket lifted off at 0050:20 GMT Friday (7:50:20 p.m. EST Thursday) from the Uchinoura Space Center in southwestern Japan. Credit: JAXA Seven small satellites launched aboard a Japanese Epsilon rocket Friday, including a diverse suite of tech demo payloads and a spacecraft designed to create an artificial meteor shower next year that…
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First of up to seven ULA launches this year set for Saturday
File photo of the Delta 4-Heavy on Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: United Launch Alliance The first of up to seven missions planned on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas and Delta rocket fleets this year is scheduled for Saturday from California’s Central Coast, when a Delta 4-Heavy is set for blastoff…
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Live coverage: Epsilon rocket lifts off with seven satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch Japan’s Epsilon rocket with seven small Japanese and Vietnamese technology demonstration satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. JAXA’s live video stream begins at approximately 0025 GMT (7:25 p.m. EST) and will be available on this page.
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Dragon cargo craft returns to Earth
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule departs the International Space Station on Sunday. Credit: David Saint-Jacques/NASA/CSA A SpaceX-owned commercial cargo craft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California late Sunday, closing out a 39-day mission that delivered 2.8 tons of supplies, experiments and holiday treats to the International Space Station, and returned home with…