10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
...in Kazakhstan. The launch was postponed from its initial launch date due to an issue associated with electrical ground system equipment at Launch Pad 24. The Proton booster that launched Intelsat 31 is 4.1 m (13.5 ft) in diameter along its second and...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... had spread to SLS’s sister programmes: the Orion crew capsule (a holdover from Constellation)and Exploration Ground Systems (a conglomeration of launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center). The date looked so unlikely, considering the “magnitude...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... over workflows and equipment. Lockheed Martin delivered the Orion vehicle for Artemis 1 to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems personnel in January. NASA most recently transported the vehicle from KSC’s Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the...
02 August 2020
Crew Dragon are on their way home
...’s final test flight and is providing data on the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft and ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, splashdown and recovery operations. The test flight also is helping NASA certify SpaceX...
05 June 2019
UK government backs ambitious space plans
... has now demonstrated every major assembly of our LauncherOne system and are within arm’s reach of bringing to the...ESA ) will collaborate closely on science, space and ground systems technology with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
...the whole launch system for human spaceflight, including the Falcon 9 rocket and associated ground systems, on Tuesday... to develop, test, and fly the first commercial human spaceflight system in history to be certified by NASA,” said SpaceX boss Elon...
