04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
...time however, the lander will blast off tomorrow (5 May) from the west coast of America aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The official start of the countdown begins today at 10:14 a.m PDT (13.05 p.m EDT/17.05 p.m GMT) but starting...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... year, helped commemorate the milestone in Starliner's journey. Starliner now sits atop its ride to space, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at ULA's Vertical Integration Facility (VIF), where it awaits the Integrated Systems Test; a tip...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
... Martin and Northrop Grumman, involves a multipart descent and ascent system that could launch on the company’s own New Glenn rocket and United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket. Conceptual designs of the Dynetics lander, which...
05 May 2021
Dream Chaser cleared for Florida runway landing from 2022
... the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract, will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket from Kennedy Space Center. Once its payload is delivered, the uncrewed, robotic spaceplane will...
13 August 2021
Stuck valves keep Starliner grounded, August flight now unlikely
... Trojan asteroids in orbit near Jupiter, is scheduled for liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral during a 23-day launch period opening 16 October. Any launch date options for OFT-2 would protect the planetary window...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... place in 2030. Or, it could be a triple-core rocket that would have a similar appearance to SpaceX's Falcon Heavy and United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy. This as-yet-unnamed rocket will be 87 metres (285 feet) long, with a three-stage central...
