April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... Space Coast region rode the economic boom of America’s thriving space programme as the Air Force provided Cape Canaveral facilities, NASA’s John F Kennedy Space Center, and their contractors privided thousands of high-paying jobs. After...
30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
...Ottobrunn, Germany, this week before starting its journey to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, in preparations for launch. Solar ...mission with NASA participation and will be launched from Cape Canaveral in February 2020. During the initial cruise phase,...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... robotic Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 4:43pm EDT on April 8, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX will again try to land the Falcon 9 rocket on a robotic ship in the...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
...-December, by leaving its factory at the Kennedy Space Center for its new home a few miles away at Cape Canaveral. After rolling out of a former space shuttle hangar at Kennedy on a motorised payload transporter, with a top speed of 5 mph...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
... Dragon vehicle exploded during a static test of its eight launch-abort engines on ground at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA and SpaceX later said the accident resulted from a leak in the...
05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
... 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.
