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...
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...
29 August 2022
Engine problem leads to scrub of SLS Artemis 1 mission
... they couldn’t resolve during the final hours of countdown. Thousands of people who had descended on areas around Kennedy Space Center to witness the histroic launch were left disappointed. A new launch attempt date is available on 2 September but...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 (OTV-5) successfully landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, having spent 780 days in space conducting on-orbit experiments. The lengthy mission meant that the X-37B broke its...
