Tag: Federal Aviation Administration
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Ariane 5 to test modified fairing for JWST, hardware for new range safety system
The payload shroud containing three commercial satellites on top of the Ariane 5 rocket for launch Friday includes modifications needed for the launch in late 2021 of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon Engineers plan to test small modifications to a payload shroud on a…
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Three U.S.-built satellites in French Guiana for Ariane 5 launch
Northrop Grumman’s second Mission Extension Vehicle and Intelsat’s Galaxy 30 communications satellite were shipped from Dulles, Virginia, to French Guiana, in late June. Credit: Northrop Grumman The next flight of Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket, set for July 28 from French Guiana, will carry a record payload of three multi-ton satellites toward geostationary orbit, including…
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Few details available in early days of SpaceX accident investigation
SuperDraco thrusters on a ground test article of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft fire during a hover test in 2015. Credit: SpaceX NASA and SpaceX officials have said little this week about the apparent explosion of a Crew Dragon capsule Saturday during a ground test at Cape Canaveral, and members of a safety advisory panel said…
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Cygnus arrives at space station with food, experiments and cache of CubeSats
The Cygnus supply ship on final approach to the International Space Station on Tuesday. Credit: NASA/Randy Bresnik A commercial cargo craft owned and operated by Orbital ATK wrapped up a two-day journey to the International Space Station on Tuesday, delivering ice cream and pizza for the lab’s six-person crew and hardware for a slew of…
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Cygnus arrives at space station with food, experiments and cache of CubeSats
The Cygnus supply ship on final approach to the International Space Station on Tuesday. Credit: NASA/Randy Bresnik A commercial cargo craft owned and operated by Orbital ATK wrapped up a two-day journey to the International Space Station on Tuesday, delivering ice cream and pizza for the lab’s six-person crew and hardware for a slew of…
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Space station cargo shipment blasts off aboard Antares rocket
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls An Orbital ATK Cygnus supply ship packed with 3.7 tons of cargo, supplies and experiments rode an Antares rocket into orbit from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Sunday, setting course on a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station. Running a day late after an airplane strayed into restricted airspace, scrubbing a launch…
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Space station cargo shipment blasts off aboard Antares rocket
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls An Orbital ATK Cygnus supply ship packed with 3.7 tons of cargo, supplies and experiments rode an Antares rocket into orbit from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Sunday, setting course on a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station. Running a day late after an airplane strayed into restricted airspace, scrubbing a launch…
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Antares launch to resupply space station halted by wayward airplane
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT) with details on the aircraft. Launch was aborted for 7:37am ET today due to an aircraft in the launch zone. Watch: https://t.co/mzKW5uDsTi pic.twitter.com/ltpdPInYtL — NASA (@NASA) November 11, 2017 Managers aborted liftoff of a commercial Antares cargo launcher Saturday when an aircraft strayed into restricted airspace…