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Endeavour reunited with Spacehab payload in museum

October 10, 2014 Stephen Clark

Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles following a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module ahead of the orbiter’s planned transition to a vertical display on a mock launch pad in 2018.

NASA clears commercial crew contractors to resume work

October 9, 2014 Stephen Clark

Boeing Co. and SpaceX, selected by NASA last month to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, can resume development of their human-rated spacecraft after officials ordered a work stoppage prompted by a protest by Sierra Nevada Corp., the company left out of the contracts.

Galileo launch failure blamed on frozen Fregat fuel line

October 8, 2014 Stephen Clark

A design flaw in a Russian Fregat upper stage was responsible for the botched orbital injection of two European Galileo navigation satellites in August, causing hydrazine fuel to freeze inside the rocket’s maneuvering system and rendering it unable to point in the right direction during a critical engine burn.

X-37B space planes to move into shuttle hangars

October 8, 2014 Stephen Clark

Boeing engineers are outfitting two decommissioned space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center for the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane.

H-2A rocket launch in photos

October 8, 2014 Stephen Clark

A Japanese weather satellite launched Tuesday aboard an H-2A rocket, beginning a mission to monitor tropical cyclones and storm systems over East Asia and the Western Pacific.

H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit

October 7, 2014 Stephen Clark

Japan has launched a next-generation geostationary weather satellite on the 25th flight of the country’s H-2A rocket, deploying an upgraded meteorological observatory critical to the minute-by-minute tracking of tropical cyclones and other storm systems across the Asia-Pacific.

Articles by Stephen Clark

Endeavour reunited with Spacehab payload in museum

NASA clears commercial crew contractors to resume work

Galileo launch failure blamed on frozen Fregat fuel line

X-37B space planes to move into shuttle hangars

H-2A rocket launch in photos

H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit

Upgraded Japanese weather satellite set for launch

H-2A rolls out to launch pad

H-2A rocket diagram

H-2A rocket ground track