02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
...system traveling thousands of miles beyond the Moon – and for Artemis 2, the first mission with astronauts. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians are preparing to attach the Orion crew and service modules before testing at the agency...
20 March 2020
SpaceX plans first crewed flight to ISS in May
... planned for mid-May. The entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from US soil – the first time since 2011 – as it looks...
04 February 2021
Three more service modules for Artemis to be built in Europe
... decade of exploration,” said Andreas Hammer, Head of Space Exploration at Airbus, “Building six Orion European Service Modules... a European Service Module is being fuelled at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, in preparation for its flight...
January 2017
Israeli students inspired by nano-satellite projects
... Science Centre, already has plans for the future. Students working on Hoopoe with Robert Cabana (Director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center) and Moshe Fadlon (Mayor of Herzliya). Work on Duchifat-3 has already started. This three unit CubeSat will...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
..., the former shuttle and Apollo launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that SpaceX is leasing. Work to renovate the pad... followed in 2017 by two demonstration flights to the International Space Station, the first without a crew and the second with ...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,” explained Metzger. Metzger, who worked at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before joining UCF, spent three years developing the adaptable technology needed to turn the idea into...
