20 May 2026
Greek optical ground station boosts Europe’s space connectivity
... and ERMIS-3 missions, Astrolight supplied both segments of the optical link: the Holomondas OGS and the ATLAS-1 laser communication terminals onboard the two satellites. Together, these elements form a complete end-to-end optical...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
... and traces the related developments of early American rockets, such as the Redstone and Jupiter, to the Thor, Atlas, Titan and Delta vehicles. A couple of Russian vehicles, the Soyuz and the Proton, are thrown in for...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
.... The Mars Helicopter will launch as a technology demonstrator with the Mars 2020 rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It is expected to reach...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
... obvious bootprint on the Moon to the much less obvious ‘rocket dress’, an A-line creation embellished with an image of an Atlas launch. In between are early sketches of the Moon made through telescopes, film stills and science-fictional...
05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
... mission, called Orbital Flight Test, will launch an uncrewed Starliner spacecraft to the station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41. Launch is targeted for Dec. 17.
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
The unpiloted US Air Force X-37B spaceplane is back in orbit after a successful launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Sunday morning. The vehicle lifted off at 09:14 AM Eastern time from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral ...
