20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... place in 2030. Or, it could be a triple-core rocket that would have a similar appearance to SpaceX's Falcon Heavy and United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy. This as-yet-unnamed rocket will be 87 metres (285 feet) long, with a three-stage central...
05 April 2016
XCOR Aerospace Welcomes New Board Members
.... Michael Gass was former President and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space...currently undergoing. With the Lynx i-RLV (Instantly Reusable Launch Vehicle) project coming closer to completion, XCOR is...
05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
... expected.” During the test, Starliner’s four launch abort engines, and several orbital maneuvering and attitude...Orbital Flight Test, will launch an uncrewed Starliner spacecraft to the station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
... of test objectives during the flight related to NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, including: Successful launch of the first human-rated United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket Checked out the Starliner propulsion systems Tested space-to-space...
18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... X-37B spaceplane is back in orbit after a successful launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Sunday morning. The vehicle lifted off at 09:14 AM Eastern time from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
...structures can be arbitrarily large since they will not have to fit inside a launch vehicle. These efforts can evolve from existing on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing... Engineer for the Atlas V payload fairing at United Launch Alliance.
