January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... EM-1 ICPS was recently completed - the first major element of the EM-1 vehicle to be delivered to Kennedy Space Center. The ICPS is at Kennedy’s Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) until it is needed for stacking on the core stage. As mentioned...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... OneWeb Satellites’ Florida factory produced the first 34 satellites for its broadband constellation. We watched as the Kennedy Space Center’s contractor workforce all but shut its doors. The cancellation of Shuttle, which came at an already-volatile...
31 July 2025
Space Station Crew-11 astronauts set for launch
... correctly and teams are reviewing the data.” During Wednesday’s pre-launch media briefing from the Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX vice president Bill Gerstenmaier said that the sensor issue would have resulted in a launch scrub...
November 2021
Space launch emergency response
... away from a launch site prior to lift-off. Facilities and procedures at long-established launch centres such as Kennedy Space Center and Baikonur are routine but this is not necessarily the case for the increasing number of spaceports...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... get to the pad. Would the original Astrovan be brought out of retirement? As this Airstream is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, this seemed unlikely. So Boeing called Airstream. Bob Wheeler, Airstream President and CEO, was...
23 October 2015
NASA says no to commercial launch pads at Kennedy Space Center – for now
.... The number of proposals NASA received for the launch pads – which would have been built at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral – has not been disclosed. Yet NASA officials also admitted that the decision could...
