Tag: commercial-space
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SpaceX clears cargo mission for launch, confirms destruction of crew capsule
Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of build and flight reliability. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett While recovery teams continue combing through the test site at Cape Canaveral where SpaceX’s first space-worthy Crew Dragon capsule was destroyed in an explosive accident last month, engineers a few miles away are pressing ahead with the company’s 17th resupply mission to…
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Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people
An overhead view shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifting off in West Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, today sent dozens of science experiments and other payloads to space and back on its suborbital New Shepard rocket ship. Today’s liftoff marked the 11th…
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Blue Origin ‘one step closer’ to human flights after successful suborbital launch
This image from Blue Origin’s webcast of Thursday’s mission shows the New Shepard’s capsule just before touchdown in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Taking another step toward flying space tourists to the edge of space, Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin again flew its New Shepard suborbital booster Thursday with a package of microgravity research…
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Launch timeline for SpaceX’s 17th space station resupply mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Saturday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 0648 GMT (2:48 a.m. EDT) Saturday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. It…
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Live coverage: SpaceX cargo ship captured by space station’s robotic arm
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 17th operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SpaceX Webcast”] [tabbyending]
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Blue Origin readies reusable suborbital launcher for another flight
File photo of a New Shepard booster landing after a previous mission. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin teams in West Texas are preparing for another launch of the company’s reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket Thursday to loft dozens of microgravity research payloads to the edge of space. The single-stage rocket is set for liftoff from…
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NASA begins outlining roadmap for 2024 moon landing
Bill Gerstenmaier, head of NASA’s human spaceflight programs, speaks April 8 during a meeting at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A senior NASA official said Tuesday that the Space Launch System, a huge heavy-lift rocket years behind schedule, could launch astronauts on a moon landing mission in 2024 on just its…
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SpaceX resupply launch delayed by malfunction on space station
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) with NASA’s confirmation of the delay. A portion of a solar array wing on the International Space Station is visible in this image. Credit: NASA A SpaceX Dragon supply ship packed with nearly three tons of experiments, crew provisions and supplies will remain on the ground…
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FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to operate Starlink satellites at lower altitude
SpaceX launched two test satellites for the Starlink in February 2018. The Starlink demonstration craft launched as secondary payloads with the Spanish radar observation satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: SpaceX The Federal Communications Commission has granted a request by SpaceX to begin launching spacecraft for the company’s…
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Live coverage: NASA replaces failed power distribution unit on space station
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch a Dragon supply ship with several tons of cargo and experiments for the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Check here for…