Category: space

On Midnight 10-20-20 NASA's mobile launcher made it's 4.2 mile trek from the VAB Vertical Assembly Building to the ramp at launch complex 39B in nine hours roughly moving at a half a mile an hour. A very detailed cleaning by ground personnel with fire hoses will occur over the next 10 days to remove Read More

A United Launched Alliance (ULA) Atlas V launched NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Sept. 8, 2016. After four years, the spacecraft will attempt to make history by performing a Touch-and-Go maneuver on the asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20 and become the first NASA spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid. photo ULA OSIRIS-REx launched Read More

On a partly cloudy morning with light rain showers advancing on historic launch complex 39A SpaceX successfully launched their Starlink 14 mission with 60 company satellites on board at 8:25 AM EDT or 12:25 UTC from Cape Canaveral Florida for their 18th launch this year. First stage booster B-1051.6 flew and landed for the sixth Read More

Improved satellite-based connectivity will allow communities in developing countries to receive better healthcare services including distant diagnostics, instant analyses as well as remote medical trainings for local medical staff Mercy Ships, the leading humanitarian mission delivering vital healthcare and medical training in some of the world’s most economically deprived regions, has announced it will be Read More

Previously scheduled back on September 17th for launch but delayed due to severe high seas in the recovery area from Atlantic hurricanes including recently one weather violation abort and one weather delay and a ground system equipment abort this SpaceX Starlink 13 mission launched at 7:29 AM EDT or 11:29 UTC October 6th from historic Read More

0 Rockets - 7 Weather/Mechanical/Aborts! What a tough week at the cape! @SpaceX #falcon9 #GPSIIISV04 aborts at T-2 seconds. Next two days the weather looks bad. Waiting on #spacex for further communication. Scott Schilke spacenews.lu space-news.es Read More

In a tough week for three American launch providers (ULA, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX) will this SpaceX GPSIIISV04 for the United States Space Force finally break the string of delays, scrubs and aborts and liftoff from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Florida during a 15 minute launch window from 9:43 PM EDT or 1:43 UTC Read More

October 1st 2020 Cape Canaveral Florida SpaceX attempted to launch the Starlink 13 mission at 9:17 AM EDT or 13:17 UTC on launch complex 39A but moments before launch they had to abort the count down due to an out of family ground system sensor reading. SpaceX will announce a new target launch date for Read More

The launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy carrying the NROL-44 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office was scrubbed today when the terminal countdown sequencer rack (TCSR) identified an unexpected condition prior to the engine start sequence. The TCSR, which controls the final 10 seconds of the countdown, performed as intended and safely Read More

The launch of the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy NROL-44 mission has been scrubbed. The local weather resulted in a significant delay to pre-launch preparations including the roll of the Mobile Service Tower (MST). When the MST roll began we discovered a hydraulic leak in the ground system required to move the tower which Read More