07 April 2017
Astronauts can zip to safety with new Emergency Egress System (EES) from ULA
... Wentz, vice president of Human & Commercial Services. ULA is working with Boeing on their Starliner programme by providing the Atlas V rocket to send up to seven passengers, or a mix of crew and cargo, for missions to a low-Earth orbit. With a goal...
08 May 2017
"Secret" space plane lands after 2 years in orbit
... space shuttle design, blasted off in May 2015 from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas 5 rocket that was built by United Launch Alliance. Since then it has spent 718 days in orbit, breaking...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... with the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., via its Atlas V rockets. Now the OTV will hitch a lift on a Falcon 9 rocket, showing that SpaceX is surpassing its private...
22 September 2017
OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today
... and give clues as to how Earth got its oceans. Launched just over a year ago while strapped to an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, OSIRIS-Rex has already unfolded its solar panels in the first...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... there," explained Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), a member of the DES team. Four of the streams found by DES – ATLAS, Molonglo, Phoenix and Tucana III – were already previously known to researchers. The others were discovered using...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... hours to the launch of their Solar Orbiter mission. Scheduled for launch Monday 10 February 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on top of an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Solar Orbiter will fly...
