Tag: commercial-space
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NASA is ‘thrilled’ with pad abort test for Boeing’s Starliner space taxi despite parachute glitch
Two parachutes ease the descent of the Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner space taxi during an uncrewed pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. (NASA via YouTube) Boeing cleared a key milestone for launching NASA astronauts on its CST-100 Starliner space taxi today by executing an end-to-end test of its rocket-powered launch abort…
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Space station receives spacewalking gear, new baking oven
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship was captured by the space station’s robotic arm at 4:10 a.m. EST (0910 GMT) Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now NASA astronaut Jessica Meir took control of the International Space Station’s Canadian-built robot arm Monday to capture a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship carrying crew provisions, spacewalking gear to repair an…
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Boeing tests crew capsule escape system
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico — A Boeing Starliner crew capsule fired off a stand early Monday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on a mile-high test flight to validate the spacecraft’s emergency escape thrusters. Only two of the ship’s three main parachutes deployed on descent, but Boeing officials do not expect…
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Space station resupply mission successfully launches from Virginia
A 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares rocket lifts off from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, carrying a Cygnus supply ship to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, upgraded to carry heavier payloads into orbit, lifted off Saturday from a launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore…
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Live coverage: Cygnus spacecraft arrives at space station
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Antares rocket from Virginia with Northrop Grumman’s 12th 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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Antares launch timeline on the NG-12 mission
The Antares launch timeline for the NG-12 mission. Credit: Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket will deliver a Cygnus supply ship into orbit Saturday to begin a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station. The rocket’s two RD-181 engines will ignite around 3.7 seconds before liftoff from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a…
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Boeing, SpaceX readying for crew capsule abort tests
Boeing and SpaceX are readying for launch abort tests in the coming weeks to validate the crew escape systems for the new human-rated Starliner and Crew Dragon spaceships, now scheduled to begin ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station in the first half of next year. The abort tests are scheduled to begin as soon…
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Virgin Galactic soars and then levels off on first day as publicly traded space company
British billionaire Richard Branson rings the New York Stock Exchange’s First Trade Bell to celebrate the listing of Virgin Galactic Holdings as a publicly traded company. (Virgin Galactic Photo / Courtney Crow) Like the rocket plane it operates, Virgin Galactic’s stock price blasted off on its first day as a publicly traded company, and then…
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NASA likely to buy Soyuz seats, defer Japanese astronaut flight
File photo of a Soyuz spacecraft approaching the International Space Station for docking July 20, 2019. Credit: NASA With lingering uncertainly about when new commercial crew spaceships will be ready to launch humans, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Thursday the space agency will replace a Japanese astronaut with a U.S. space flier on the next…
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Bridenstine says NASA not holding up commercial crew schedule
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (left) visited SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Oct. 10. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk and NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken (left to right) joined Bridenstine for a media availability in Hawthorne. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said this week the space agency is not unduly…