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One of ULA’s four remaining Delta 4 rockets set to launch from California
United Launch Alliance ground crews on California's Central Coast are gearing up to send a classified U.S. government spy satellite into orbit as soon as Monday -- weather permitting -- aboard one of the company's four remaining Delta 4-Heavy rockets.
SLS core ready for shipment to Florida; NASA still hopes for late 2021 launch
Teams at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi removed the core of NASA's first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket from a test stand earlier this week for loading onto a barge to carry it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the rocket stage is due to arrive by the end of the month to start final preparations for a test flight around the Moon.
Boeing crew capsule test flight now scheduled for late summer
A second unpiloted test flight of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule -- ordered after an initial demonstration mission fell short of reaching the International Space Station -- is now scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral in August or September, leaving little margin to conduct the spaceship's first flight with astronauts before the end of the year.
VideoOur interview with Steve Jurczyk, NASA’s acting administrator
Stephen Clark, Spaceflight Now's editor, asked NASA's acting administrator about the space agency's commercial crew and Artemis programs during a one-on-one virtual interview Tuesday, April 20.
VideoNASA chief: Russian cosmonauts unlikely fly on U.S. crew capsules until next year
NASA’s acting administrator said Tuesday he does not expect Russian cosmonauts to start launching to the International Space Station on U.S. commercial crew vehicles until next year. A proposed agreement with Russia to ensure the space station is always staffed with an international crew is awaiting U.S. government approval.
Amazon buys nine Atlas 5 launches for Kuiper broadband constellation
Amazon has selected United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket for nine missions from Cape Canaveral to deploy satellites for the Kuiper internet constellation, a fleet designed to eventually number more than 3,200 spacecraft, the companies announced Monday.
VideoNASA chooses SpaceX to land next astronauts on the Moon
NASA has selected SpaceX to build a spacecraft to land the first astronauts on the moon since 1972, choosing Elon Musk's space company over competing proposals from Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and the aerospace firm Dynetics, officials announced Friday.
Astrobotic selects SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch robotic lunar lander
A commercial lunar lander built by Astrobotic will launch from the Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in late 2023 to deliver a water-hunting NASA rover to the moon's south pole, officials announced Tuesday.
Musk says methane leak doomed latest Starship test flight
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Monday that a "relatively small" methane leak caused the explosion of the company's latest Starship test rocket last week on an experimental flight over South Texas.
SpaceX’s latest high-altitude Starship test flight ends in another explosion
SpaceX's latest Starship test flight apparently ended with another explosion Tuesday in South Texas, but dense fog obscured clear views of the launch and failed landing. The Federal Aviation Administration said late Tuesday it is working with SpaceX to determine if light debris reported in a nearby town came from the Starship test rocket.