05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, held its 100th successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday. The Atlas V rocket was carrying a Morelos-3 satellite for Mexico’s network of satellites, but The Washington...
03 December 2015
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Launches Today
... Space Station. The Cygnus is scheduled to launch at 5:55 p.m EST (2255 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. This is the fourth resupply mission performed by Orbital ATK, out...
21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
... this evening. The rocket is now scheduled to launch at 8:33 pm ET time Monday (0133 GMT Tuesday) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, said the California-based company. One key aim of SpaceX’s mission, is after lift off, to land the...
22 December 2015
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully
.... The upgraded Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:29 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Deployment of the 11 Orbcomm satellites started about 14 minutes after liftoff. “The Falcon has landed,” the SpaceX...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
...Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who presented the results at the 227th meeting of American Astronomical Society in Kissimmee, Florida. "We can then use this information to deduce what's going on in more distant galaxies, which are harder to see...
20 January 2016
Our view of Van Allen belts set to be revolutionised by new data from NASA probes
... years after NASA’s Van Allen Probes were launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the twin spacecraft continue to push the boundaries of what is known about the space above our world...
