Tag: commercial-space
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Launch of Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket scrubbed in Virginia
Vapors stream away from a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket during a launch attempt Thursday night at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Northrop Grumman called off the launch of an Antares rocket and a Cygnus space station cargo freighter Thursday night on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the third aborted countdown in less than 24 hours…
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U.S. military to use previously-flown SpaceX rockets beginning next year
File photo of a previously-flown Falcon 9 booster. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now The U.S. Space Force says it will launch two GPS navigation satellites on reused Falcon 9 boosters next year through a restructured contract with SpaceX that saved taxpayers $52 million, the first time the military has agreed to fly operational national security payloads…
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Northrop Grumman “optimistic” to receive more NASA cargo mission orders
EDITOR’S NOTE: Northrop Grumman scrubbed the Antares launch attempt Thursday, Oct. 1. The launch has been rescheduled for 9:16 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2. See our Mission Status Center for live coverage of the countdown and launch. A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket rolls out Saturday, Sept. 26, to pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in…
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Antares launch timeline on the NG-14 mission
This graphic illustrates the major events during the Antares rocket’s climb into orbit with the Cygnus supply ship on the NG-14 mission. Credit: Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket will deliver a Cygnus supply ship into orbit Thursday to begin a pursuit of the International Space Station. The rocket’s two RD-181 engines will ignite around…
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Live coverage: Cygnus supply ship arrives at International Space Station
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Antares rocket from Virginia with Northrop Grumman’s 14th operational Cygnus resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”Wallops Clean Feed”] [tabbyending]
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Ground sensor reading scrubs Falcon 9 launch with Starlink satellites
Sixty flat-packed Starlink broadband satellites were aboard the Falcon 9 rocket for Thursday morning’s launch attempt. Credit: SpaceX An unexpected reading from a ground sensor prompted SpaceX to scrub the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday with 60 more Starlink broadband satellites. It was the second last-minute abort of a rocket launch on…
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SpaceX rockets await launch opportunities later this week
Two Falcon 9 rockets are standing on pad 40 (left) and pad 39A (right) for launches later this week. Credit: SpaceX Two SpaceX rockets are standing on launch pads several miles apart on Florida’s Space Coast awaiting launch opportunities Thursday and Friday, once an oft-delayed Delta 4-Heavy rocket from rival United Launch Alliance is able…
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NASA selects SpaceX to launch mission studying interstellar space
This illustration shows the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe observing signals from the interaction of the solar wind with the winds of other stars. Credit: NASA NASA has awarded SpaceX a $109 million contract to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, a NOAA space weather observatory, a robotic scout to map water on the moon,…
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After weather scrub, Starlink launch to wait for pair of national security missions
A Falcon 9 rocket is seen just before bad weather forced SpaceX to scrub a launch attempt Monday with 60 more Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX Continuing a dizzying series of rescheduled launches from Florida’s Space Coast, poor weather at the Kennedy Space Center forced SpaceX to keep a Falcon 9 rocket and 60 Starlink broadband…
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Live coverage: SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch due to weather
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s 13th batch of approximately 60 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending]