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ULA wants you to help pick name of new rocket

March 23, 2015 Stephen Clark

Eagle? Freedom? GalaxyOne? United Launch Alliance wants public input in the naming of a next-generation launcher designed to replace the historic Atlas and Delta rocket lines in the 2020s.

Arianespace to launch satellites for Earth imaging, data relay

March 21, 2015 Stephen Clark

Arianespace announced four launch orders this week to deploy spacecraft in orbit for Google, the United Arab Emirates and Europe’s new laser data relay satellite network.

SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches

March 21, 2015 Stephen Clark

Confronted with pesky problems in the Falcon 9 rocket’s helium pressurization system, SpaceX has shuffled the order of the next two launches, choosing to go ahead with the liftoff of a Dragon supply ship on a cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station around April 10.

Sierra Nevada proposes all-in-one solution for ISS resupply

March 20, 2015 Stephen Clark

Leveraging progress made to build a human-rated space plane for NASA’s commercial crew program, Sierra Nevada Corp. said this week it has offered a cargo-carrying version of the Dream Chaser spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station beginning in 2018.

Proton rocket launches with Russian telecom satellite

March 19, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage deployed a Russian communications satellite in orbit Thursday after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe

March 18, 2015 Stephen Clark

A NASA spacecraft that will fly closer to the sun than any mission before will launch on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket in 2018, requiring a boost from the largest active launcher in the U.S. inventory and repeated flybys around Venus to reach an operating post inside the solar atmosphere.

Articles by Stephen Clark

ULA wants you to help pick name of new rocket

Arianespace to launch satellites for Earth imaging, data relay

SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches

Sierra Nevada proposes all-in-one solution for ISS resupply

Proton rocket launches with Russian telecom satellite

Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe

SpaceX puts off next Falcon 9 launch

Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters

Lockheed Martin throws its hat into ISS cargo competition

More views of Thursday night’s Atlas 5 launch