June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... some sort of transporter van. In the 1960s, US Mercury astronauts travelled alone from their crew-quarters at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station inside a converted semi-trailer known simply as the ‘transfer van’. It was pulled by a tractor...
22 April 2019
Anomaly during SpaceX test could delay its first crewed flight
... today, SpaceX conducted a series of engine tests on a Crew Dragon test vehicle on our test stand at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The initial tests completed successfully but the final test resulted in an anomaly on the test stand...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... on 15 October 1997, a mighty streak of flame from a Titan/Centaur rocket split the pre-dawn sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the beginning of an unprecedented journey of discovery, as the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft left the confines of Earth...
October 2024
Simplicity is the space industry’s secret weapon
...-wide, much like a continuously deployed pipeline for software. The symbolic ‘Road to Space’ sign at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In addition, make sure your teams are able to analyse and understand where efficiency breaks down...
02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle has exploded during a static fire test on September 1, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon 9 was scheduled to launch on September 3 with the Amos-6 communications satellite payload for the ...
09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
The Atlas 5 rocket has successfully launched at 7:05 pm EDT on September 8, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer) separated from ...
