12 April 2016
ULA teams up with Bigelow
United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rockets will launch the first of Bigelow Aerospace’s giant ... announced today (April 11). The two aerospace companies are teaming up to launch the giant space habitats to orbit with the first targeted for 2020 in...
16 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
...national security. As soon as its second flight, however, United Launch Alliance's (ULA) big, new heavy-lift rocket will make ...proposed it for the US Air Force's upcoming round of launch service procurement. Dream Chaser's ticket to space is a series...
20 December 2019
Trouble for Starliner's inaugural flight as burn maneouver fails
... At 6:36 a.m. EST (1136 GMT) this morning, the reusable CST-100 Starliner capsule launched atop the United Launch Alliance "N22" Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. "It was stunning to see," NASA...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... success for NASA as its Mars 2020, Perseverance rover mission successfully launched toward Mars atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 7:50 am EDT (11:50 GMT...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...far more cost-effective source of propellant (hydrogen and oxygen) to fuel a large crewed spacecraft to Mars. Former United Launch Alliance chief scientist George Sowers estimates that such a resource could be produced off-Earth for as little as $500...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... to LEO, and at least 45 metric tons to TLI. The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS), built by Boeing and United Launch Alliance, has been completed and is currently in storage at Kennedy Space Center in Florida until needed for stacking on top...
