SPACENEWS

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on 10 August 2021. It was the second of two Venus gravity assist flybys needed to set course with Mercury. The sequence includes images from all three Monitoring Cameras Read More

….at 6:01 PM EDT from Wallops Island Virginia 8-10-21! Under sunny skies with mild winds the NG-16 mission liftoff occurred at 6:01 PM EDT from launch complex OA at Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport called MARS Tuesday August 10th. The Cygnus cargo spacecraft will stay docked at the ISS Unity module for about three months. After Read More

ENAIRE, Spain's national air traffic manager, is enhancing its position as a leader and benchmark in Europe in air safety management. The day-to-day work of ENAIRE's professionals is guided by the mission of providing quality air navigation services in a way that is safe, efficient and environmentally friendly, the goal being to turn ENAIRE into Read More

Grab a cool drink and some shades and get ready to watch our next rocket launch! Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft for no earlier than 5:56 p.m. EDT (21:56 UTC) Tuesday, Aug. 10, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Launch coverage on NASA TV will begin at Read More

Northrop Grumman’s 16th contracted commercial resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,200 pounds of science and research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. This will be the fifth mission under Northrop Grumman’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA. Launch is set for Tuesday, Read More

photo caption: ENAIRE air traffic controllers at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport Control Tower • The Air Navigation Services Recovery Plan, launched in June 2020, has been enhanced during these months due to the anticipated increase in traffic • ENAIRE is applying a wide range of organisational criteria and measures involving its services, especially air Read More

NASA and Boeing are standing down from the Wednesday, Aug. 4, launch attempt of the agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station as mission teams continue to examine the cause of the unexpected valve position indications on the CST-100 Starliner propulsion system. Early in the launch countdown for the Aug. 3 attempt, mission Read More

ESA A ground-based laser tracking system that could help to stem the accumulation of space debris is being developed in the UK.   Devised by start-up company Lumi Space with the support of ESA and the UK Space Agency, the technology has been demonstrated in lab tests to have the potential to pinpoint small objects Read More

During pre-launch preparations for the uncrewed test flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, Boeing engineers monitoring the health and status of the vehicle detected unexpected valve position indications in the propulsion system. The issue was initially detected during check outs following yesterday’s electrical storms in the region of Kennedy Space Center. Consequently, the launch of Read More

Boeing, NASA & ULA uncrewed Starliner CST-100 mission is set for launch tomorrow at 1:20 PM EDT or 17:20 UTC 8-3-21 with a 60% Go For Launch weather forecast from the 45th Space Wing. Liftoff will occur from SLC-41 and will be the 145th mission for United Launch Alliance and only the second time this Read More