24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
A Cygnus cargo spacecraft was successfully launched to the ISS by a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on March 22 ...be determined later and depend on NASA's schedule. Prior to that launch, Orbital ATK plans to carry out a static fire test of ...
04 November 2016
China launches new heavy-lift rocket
... debut. Credit: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation The heavy rocket is comparable to United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy launcher, although SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, scheduled for flight early 2017, is expected to be larger than...
07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
... due to strong winds high in the atmosphere. The launch attracted thousands of sightseers, crowds not seen since NASA's... Earth orbit. Though it is not as tall or wide as United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4-Heavy, it has more than twice the capability of ...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
...time however, the lander will blast off tomorrow (5 May) from the west coast of America aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The official start of the countdown begins today at 10:14 a.m PDT (13.05 p.m EDT/17.05 p.m GMT) but starting...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... year, helped commemorate the milestone in Starliner's journey. Starliner now sits atop its ride to space, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at ULA's Vertical Integration Facility (VIF), where it awaits the Integrated Systems Test; a tip...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
... Martin and Northrop Grumman, involves a multipart descent and ascent system that could launch on the company’s own New Glenn rocket and United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket. Conceptual designs of the Dynetics lander, which...
