10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
...in Kazakhstan. The launch was postponed from its initial launch date due to an issue associated with electrical ground system equipment at Launch Pad 24. The Proton booster that launched Intelsat 31 is 4.1 m (13.5 ft) in diameter along its second and...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
...billion deficit needed in order to get SLS off the ground, means that the earliest Artemis-1 will be ready is...three programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems—NASA senior leaders acknowledged ...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... had spread to SLS’s sister programmes: the Orion crew capsule (a holdover from Constellation)and Exploration Ground Systems (a conglomeration of launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center). The date looked so unlikely, considering the “magnitude...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... over workflows and equipment. Lockheed Martin delivered the Orion vehicle for Artemis 1 to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems personnel in January. NASA most recently transported the vehicle from KSC’s Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the...
02 August 2020
Crew Dragon are on their way home
...’s final test flight and is providing data on the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft and ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, splashdown and recovery operations. The test flight also is helping NASA certify SpaceX...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... his special report, Sylvester Kaczmarek dissects the complex web of risks associated with AI-driven spacecraft and ground systems, from adversarial attacks and data poisoning to the possibility of hostile control. His analysis underscores the urgent...
