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...
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...
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...
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...
