... failed shortly afterwards. NASA is hoping for success again, when next week the agency launches its Perseverance rover from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Along with Perseverance and Tianwen...
At 4:30 on November 24th, China used the Long March 5 carrier rocket to successfully launch the lunar exploration Chang’e-5 probe at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China. After the rocket flew for about 2,200 seconds, the probe was successfully...
... mode, during the EFT-1 test flight out to 5,800 km beyond low-Earth orbit. An Orion launch on the heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will occur in 2017. The SLS has Boeing as its main contractor, with...
... was established in 2011 by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen to get game-changing ideas off the ground by making space launch more reliable. Sadly, the entrepreneur died last year so he did not get to see his monumental vision...