Nevada – Spaceflight Now

May 24, 2019

Breaking News

[ May 24, 2019 ] SpaceX’s first 60 Starlink broadband satellites deployed in orbit Falcon 9
[ May 23, 2019 ] India plans July launch of Chandrayaan 2 moon mission GSLV
[ May 23, 2019 ] Chinese state media confirms Long March launch failure Mission Reports
[ May 22, 2019 ] Indian rocket successfully delivers radar observation satellite to orbit Mission Reports
[ May 21, 2019 ] NASA to soon announce winner of first commercial lunar lander competition News

Commercial crew capsules still beset by parachute problems

May 9, 2019

A malfunction during a drop test over Nevada last month for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon program has engineers re-examining the crew capsule’s parachutes, and Boeing has also encountered parachute failures during testing for its commercial crew capsule, a senior NASA official confirmed Wednesday.