Tag: CubeSats
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NASA packs a big vision for space exploration into smaller $19 billion budget
NASA is developing a heavy-lift rocket known as the Space Launch System, shown in this artist’s conception. Spending in the category that includes the SLS and the Orion deep-space capsule would be trimmed in the budget proposed for the next fiscal year. (Credit: NASA) Christmas has come and gone, and so has a bump in…
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NASA’s giant rocket will carry solar sail, a lunar flashlight and more mini-satellites
An artist’s conception shows Lunar Flashlight flying above a crater on the moon. (Credit: NASA) NASA says it’ll send 13 miniaturized satellites – including a pop-up solar sail and a “lunar flashlight” – beyond Earth orbit when it flies its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket for the first time in 2018. The main payload for the…
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PSLV completes commercial launch with six Singaporean satellites
Six spacecraft for Singapore lifted off Wednesday aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. Clustered atop the the PSLV on a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast, the satellites were manufactured in Singapore, with launch services arranged with Antrix Corp., the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization.…
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Spaceflight offers a Cyber Monday deal: Satellite launches for $200,000 – that’s 33 percent off!
Spaceflight’s Cyber Monday deal will deliver satellites to orbit in 2018. (Credit: Spaceflight) Here’s a Cyber Monday deal from Seattle-based Spaceflight for the space geek on your list: Purchase a satellite launch for one-third off, at the low, low price of $200,000. The only catch is that you’ll have to wait until 2018 for the satellite…
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ULA says it will launch some CubeSats for free
Artist’s concept of CubeSats deploying from ULA’s Aft Bulkhead Carrier on the read end of the Atlas 5 rocket’s Centaur upper stage. Credit: ULA United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno said Thursday the company will offer more rides for CubeSats aboard future Atlas 5 rocket flights, and give some away for free, in a…
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Video clips show rocket anomaly high above Hawaii
Videos of Tuesday’s sunset liftoff of the U.S. Air Force’s Super Strypi launcher show the low-cost fin-guided rocket streaking into the skies over Hawaii and arcing downrange toward the south with 13 satellites before apparently losing control and breaking up. The rotating motion seen in a view from the rocket’s on-board camera is normal —…
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Air Force declares failure on Super Strypi test launch
The Super Strypi launch vehicle blasted off from a rail launch platform at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii at 0345 GMT Wednesday (10:45 p.m. EST; 5:45 p.m. HST). Credit: U.S. Air Force/University of Hawaii/Spaceflight Now The first flight of an experimental U.S. military rocket designed for low-cost, quick-reaction satellite launches ended…
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Hawaii’s first satellite launch set for Tuesday
The Super Strypi launch vehicle is fastened to a rail launch system at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Credit: U.S. Air Force U.S. military authorities have granted approval for liftoff Tuesday of a simplified satellite launcher from Hawaii on a test flight officials say will help drive down the costs of sending…
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Inaugural launch of small-class rocket on hold in Hawaii
Credit: U.S. Air Force The maiden test flight of a new rail-guided launcher from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, which was scheduled for Thursday, has been delayed while engineers resolve issues encountered in pre-launch preparations, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson said. The mission, managed by the Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space…
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NASA to fly CubeSats on three new commercial launchers
File photo of a one-unit (1U) CubeSat. Credit: NASA Ames NASA announced Wednesday it is joining a chorus of companies pushing for easier access to space, awarding $17.1 million in contracts to three firms developing new launchers tailored for lifting lightweight satellites into orbit. None of the rockets have flown yet, but NASA plans to…