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Scott PowersApril 12, 2017

After multiple delays last month, last on March 23, Orbital ATK and United Launch Alliance are now shooting for next Tuesday for launch of a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Orbital ATK, one of NASA’s two companies under contract to ship equipment, food and other supplies to astronauts in space, will be launching […]

Scott PowersJanuary 3, 2017

Declaring that the glitch that blew up its last rocket while sitting on the launch pad back in September has been identified and fixed, SpaceX announced it is ready to launch again – Sunday, from California. SpaceX said it plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Station. to carry a French Iridium […]

Scott PowersDecember 15, 2016

A Pegasus XL rocket dropped from beneath an airplane off the coast of Daytona Beach Thursday morning, then launched from there into orbit and deployed eight NASA hurricane-tracking satellites into orbit. The drop-launch from an altitude of 39,000 feet, about 110 miles east of Daytona Beach, went as planned after the mission was postponed twice […]

Scott PowersDecember 7, 2016

A Delta IV rocket blasted into the night sky over Cape Canaveral Wednesday night to carry an Air Force telecommunications rocket into space. The United Launch Alliance rocket blasted off without a hitch and on time, at 6:53 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ULA’s Patrick Moore declared the rocket’s launch and separation of […]

Scott PowersNovember 10, 2016

Cape Canaveral is getting back in the rocket-launching business next week with the blast-off of an Atlas V rocket carrying a new-generation weather satellite into space. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V is set for launch Nov. 19 from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with a one-hour launch window opening at 5:42 p.m. […]

Scott PowersOctober 13, 2016

The Atlas V rockets that would blast American astronauts into space in a couple of years will be wearing a skirt. United Launch Alliance and Boeing announced Wednesday they have created a new configuration of the venerable Atlas V rocket to eliminate an aerodynamic stability problem identified with carrying Boeing’s Starliner Crew Capsule during launch […]

Scott PowersSeptember 27, 2016

SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled his career dream Tuesday of launching an entire, self-sustaining human civilization to Mars, and revealed his company is designing a huge rocket and spacecraft to do so. Musk, the PayPal billionaire who built the world’s most successful 21st century rocket company, began his 45-minute address to the International Astronautical Congress […]

Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2016

Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos announced this week his Blue Origin company is going to build the biggest rocket on Earth and call it the “New Glenn,” continuing his tradition of naming spacecraft after legendary NASA astronauts. The rocket will be taller than anything now in production, though smaller than NASA’s planned Space Launch System rocket; […]

Scott PowersSeptember 1, 2016

Updated with 1:30 p.m. Thursday statement from SpaceX: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket preparing for launch Saturday morning blew up on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) Thursday morning, followed by a fire and high plumes of black smoke. No injuries are being reported. “At approximately 9:07 am ET, during a standard pre-launch static […]

Scott PowersJuly 18, 2016

Shortly after midnight Monday a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, lifting a spacecraft full of supplies, including a new spacecraft docking hatch for the International Space Station. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:45 a.m. with almost 5,000 pounds of cargo, including scientific supplies to […]

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Orbital ATK, United Launch Alliance to try again for space station resupply launch

SpaceX shooting to launch again on Sunday, in California

Drop-launch of rocket off Florida coast sends NASA satellites into orbit

ULA blasts Air Force comm satellite into orbit

Next Florida rocket now set to blast off Nov. 19

ULA unveils new configuration for Atlas V rocket to carry astronauts

Elon Musk: 1 million people on Mars, using his Big Florida Rocket

Blue Origin’s ‘New Glenn’ rocket to be big, powerful launch from Cape Canaveral

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes on launchpad at Cape Canaveral

SpaceX cargo shipment headed to space station