News tagged with launch

NASA puts new Ares I-X rocket on launch pad for test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter century, a new vehicle is sitting at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ares I-X flight test vehicle arrived at the pad ...

NASA is 'go' for crucial rocket test

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 25, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 5

NASA is set to blast off a prototype rocket on Tuesday that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the program's future.

NASA Conducts Full-Scale Test Firing of Orion Jettison Motor

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 21, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA completed a full-scale rocket motor test on Thursday, July 17, to further development of the Orion jettison motor, which will separate the spacecraft's launch abort system from the crew ...

Rescue shuttle moved to launch pad just in case

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 17, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 1

(AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour is on a launch pad, ready to rocket off on a rescue mission if shuttle Atlantis needs help when it flies to repair the Hubble Space Telescope next month.

Obama administration to review NASA program, sources say

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 6

In a major turnaround, the Obama administration intends this week to order a review of the spacecraft program that NASA had hoped would one day replace the space shuttle, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.

Next NASA Mars Mission Rescheduled for 2011

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 04, 2008 | 4 / 5 (6) | 0

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. The mission will send a next-generation rover with unprecedented research tools to study the early environmental ...

Last-ever look at ESA's gravity satellite GOCE

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 04, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As preparations for the launch of GOCE on 10 September continue on schedule, an important milestone has just been achieved as engineers at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia say farewell ...

Astronauts get in shuttle, ready to go to Hubble

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 11, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 5

(AP) -- Astronauts strapped into space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, an extraordinarily ambitious mission that NASA hopes will lift the celebrated observatory ...

Rescue shuttle at launch pad for Hubble trip

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(AP) -- In what's expected to be the last time ever, both of NASA's shuttle launch pads are occupied. Atlantis is on one, primed for a flight this coming week to the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour sits ...

NASA clears Atlantis for Monday launch to Hubble

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(AP) -- After months of delay, NASA cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a Monday launch to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Researchers and students to develop small CubeSat satellites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 01, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 1

A satellite about the size of a loaf of bread will be designed and built at the University of Michigan and deployed to study space weather, thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation.

NOAA-N prime satellite arrives at Vandenberg for launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 04, 2008 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military ...

New Target Shuttle Launch Dates Announced as Astronauts Complete Rehearsal

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 24, 2008 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

The target launch date for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope has been reset to Oct. 14 at 10:19 p.m. EDT. A news conference is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 3, at NASA's ...

First Rocket Parts Of NASA's New Launch System Arrive In Florida

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 04, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first major flight hardware of the Ares I-X rocket has arrived in Florida to begin preparation for the inaugural test flight of the agency's next-generation launch system. The test flight ...

GOCE gravity satellite moves to launch pad

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 11, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft - encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing - has been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch ...