22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... on a collision path with Earth. Blasting off on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 1:20 am ET (06:20 GMT) on 24 November, DART, which stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will head on a 10 month...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... Vandenberg Space Force Base in the US and Palmachim Airbase in Israel have limited access, the Semnan Space Center ...cold technical specifications for a rocket as being excessive for outer space, only to be told that it was based on the temperatures...
03 September 2021
Anomaly causes rocket to explode on maiden flight
... to draw conclusions as to the root cause, we will be diligent in our investigation, in partnership with the FAA and Vandenberg Space Force Base. We will utilise the data we obtained from the test flight and apply it to future missions. Our...
10 August 2020
ULA & SpaceX win substantial US government launch contracts
... year 2020 through 2024, with the first missions launching in fiscal year 2022. The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center will order launch services annually from ULA and SpaceX. Consistent with...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
... Officer. He has extensive service in all aspects of Aerospace, was involved in the creation of the UK Space Command and was close to the US Space Force formation. He is a Fellow at Oxford and was educated at Kings, Cambridge; Chennai, Exeter; and...
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... of reporters ahead of the launch. “One of the things that we’ve learned is the value of reusability, and I think as a Space Force there’s a couple things that we’re really going to value and reusability is one of those and autonomy is another one...
