NASA hopes to launch the most powerful rocket ever before the end of August. Let’s take a look at the Space Launch System (SLS), what goes into setting the most important launch dates, and how you can watch the uber science missile lift off live for free. The SLS is a truly monstrous rocket. When …
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NASA hopes to launch the most powerful rocket ever before the end of August. Let’s take a look at the Space Launch System (SLS), what goes into setting the most important launch dates, and how you can watch the uber science missile lift off live for free. The SLS is a truly monstrous rocket. When …
World’s most powerful moon rocket could be launched in weeks – IGN Read More »
NASA’s ambitious Artemis 1 lunar mission will return to pad one last time before launch. The Artemis 1 stack will make the approximately 6.4 kilometer journey from the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B on August 18, NASA confirmed Friday, August 5. The deployment will keep Artemis 1 on track to …
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Animation of the Orion spacecraft flying around the Moon. Credit: NASA. During Artemis I, which is scheduled to launch on August 29, Nasa Founded in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible …
Enlarge / An Atlas V rocket launches a Space Infrared System satellite Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. Trevor Mahlman Welcome to Rocket Report 5.05! Don’t look now, but we could be less than four weeks away from launching NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. I’ve covered this booster for a dozen years and …
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South Korea is on its way to the moon. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) took off today (August 4) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launching South Korea’s first-ever deep-space mission and setting the stage for more ambitious lunar efforts down the road. KPLO, also known as Danuri, “will be the first step to …
SpaceX launches South Korea’s first-ever moon mission, lands rocket at sea Read More »
A Falcon 9 rocket colliding with a bridge was responsible for damage that delayed SpaceX’s next human launch. The Falcon 9 first stage was damaged in transit, a SpaceX representative told reporters during a briefing today (August 4). The subject of the briefing was SpaceX’s delayed Crew-5 mission, which is now expected to carry four …
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Update for 1:30 a.m. EDT: Rocket Lab has successfully launched the NROL-199 spy satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office, with the satellite expected to deploy around 02:00 a.m. EDT (06:00 GMT). Next up on August 4 is the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V mission carrying the SBIRS GEO 6 missile warning satellite. This webcast …
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