September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...-C engine. DART is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2021. DART will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The mission is being developed and led for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...
10 January 2019
Successful launch of formation-flying microsatellite constellation
... 360 Inc. The microsatellites were launched last year into low Earth orbit on December 3, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The HawkEye 360 Pathfinder microsatellites will detect and geolocate radio frequency (RF) signals from VHF...
04 March 2016
NASA Expected to Make a Decision on InSight Mars Lander in the Near Future
... window will be in 2018, and according to the revised plan, InSight would launch on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, landing on the Elysium Planitia region of Mars on November 26, the same landing site as previously planned...
07 November 2016
Solid oxygen to blame for SpaceX explosion
... that the problem is known Musk expects SpaceX to return to flight before the year is out by and either Vandenberg Air Force Base in California or another launch pad at Cape Canaveral that the company leases from NASA is expected to be used for...
