Tag: NASA
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NASA watchdogs blame SLS rocket snags on Boeing missteps and poor oversight
A structural test version of the intertank for NASA’s new deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, arrives at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in March for testing aboard the barge Pegasus. The intertank is the second piece of structural hardware for the massive SLS core stage. (NASA Photo) NASA’s Space Launch System, the rocket that’s…
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Russians plan Thursday launch of two to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague pose outside their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft Oct. 6 during pre-flight testing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov One week after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft departed the International Space Station and brought three crew members back to…
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Photos: Soyuz transferred to Baikonur launch pad
A Soyuz rocket poised to send two new crew members to the International Space Station rolled to its launch pad Tuesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-FG rocket emerged from an assembly building at the Central Asia spaceport at sunrise Tuesday. Lying on its side, the three-stage launcher rode a specially-designed rail car…
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Hubble Space Telescope in safe mode with gyro trouble
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of the Hubble Space Telescope following its release from the shuttle Atlantis in May 2009. Credit: NASA NASA has suspended science operations with the Hubble Space Telescope and put the observatory into protective “safe mode” while engineers troubleshoot problems with one of the spacecraft’s three remaining…
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Hubble Space Telescope goes into safe mode due to failed gyro; Plan B pending
The Hubble Space Telescope gets its final close-up after a shuttle servicing mission in 2009. (NASA Photo) The 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is temporarily out of service, due to the failure of one of its gyroscopic pointing devices, but scientists say they’re working on a Plan B. Today NASA confirmed reports that Hubble scientists such…
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Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner are being developed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX / Boeing Illustrations) NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tests of the space taxis that are being built by SpaceX and Boeing for trips to…
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NanoRacks names its space outpost team, including Stratolaunch and Olis Robotics
An artist’s conception shows a Centaur upper-stage booster that’s been outfitted to become an orbital outpost. (NanoRacks Illustration) It takes a village to raise an space outpost, and NanoRacks’ array of villagers includes Stratolaunch as well as Olis Robotics, the startup formerly known as BluHaptics. NanoRacks, which is headquartered in Texas, today listed those two Seattle-based…
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Are we alone? NASA turns to the search for technosignatures beyond Earth
An artist’s representation shows a megastructure known as a Dyson sphere capturing the energy from a distant star. Such a structure could create observable technosignatures pointing to the civilization behind its construction. (Credit: Danielle Futselaar / SETI International) It’s been a quarter-century since Congress cut off NASA funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or…
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Final Delta 2 rocket launch puts NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite in orbit to monitor ice
A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket rises from its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying NASA’s ICESAT-2 satellite into orbit. (NASA via YouTube) NASA kicked off its ICESat-2 mission to monitor our planet’s ice sheets from space using a laser-scanning satellite this morning, with a launch that marked the end…
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NASA and Russian officials knock down a conspiracy theory on space station leak
Space station crew members work to patch up a small hole in the inner hull of a Soyuz spacecraft on Aug. 30. (NASA / Roscosmos via @NASASpaceflight / Twitter) NASA and Russia’s space agency issued a joint statement today aimed at quashing viral claims that someone on the International Space Station’s crew sabotaged a Soyuz…