Liftoff of the NROL-146 mission!

Liftoff of the NROL-146 mission!

Avus
Posted by:Avus
on May 22, 2024

A Falcon 9 rocket carried the NROL-146 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to space after liftoff from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT; 1 a.m. local ...

Read More
May 16, 2024 • 0 min read
Full stack of Flight 4 Starship

FaStarship Flight Test 4 (unofficially IFT-4) was the 4th flight of Starship

Posted By - Avus
May 10, 2024 • 0 min read
Falcon 9 lifts off for the 75th time from pad 4E in California!

Falcon 9 lifts off for the 75th time from pad 4E in California!

Posted By - Avus
May 09, 2024 • 0 min read
Static fire of Flight 5 Starship’s six Raptor engines

SpaceX conducted a "static fire" with a Starship upper stage today (May 8) at its Starbase site in South Texas, briefly igniting all six of the 165-foot-tall (50 meters) vehicle's Raptor engines while it remained anchored to the pad.

Posted By - Avus
May 09, 2024 • 0 min read
Blue seas and blue skies for Falcon 9 landing

A Falcon 9 rocket launched two Earth-observation satellites for the company Maxar today (May 2) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:36 p.m.

Posted By - Avus
May 06, 2024 • 0 min read
Tory Talk // Atlas V Starliner CFT

ULA President and CEO gives an overview of how Atlas V, one of the most reliable rockets in the world, carries an extra layer of safety for its solemn duty of launching astronauts on human spaceflight missions.

Posted By - Avus
May 02, 2024 • 0 min read
Atlas V Starliner CFT Mission Profile

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams on the Crew Flight Test (CFT).

Posted By - Avus
May 01, 2024 • 0 min read
Atlas V Starliner CFT: Passing the Torch

As we return human spaceflight to Atlas, we pass the torch of knowledge to future generations, building on all we have learned. Go Atlas! Go Centaur! Go Starliner!

Posted By - Avus
May 01, 2024 • 0 min read
Atlas V Starliner CFT: Processing and Stacking

Reigniting Atlas' legacy of launching humans to space, ULA is using an Atlas V rocket to launch the Crew Flight Test (CFT). Check out how the Atlas V rocket was stacked ahead of launch.

Posted By - Avus
April 23, 2024 • 0 min read
Falcon 9’s first stage

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing Falcon’s 300th landing!

Posted By - Avus
April 23, 2024 • 0 min read
Rocket Lab - 'Beginning Of The Swarm' Launch

The ‘Beginning Of The Swarm’ mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 10:32 am NZT on April 24th, 2024. Electron carried two satellites for two separate customers: NEONSAT-1, an Earth observation satellite for the Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC) at ...

Posted By - Avus
April 18, 2024 • 0 min read
Delta IV Heavy NROL-70 Rocket Cam

The Delta program, spanning 60 years, came to a close with the launch of the final Delta IV Heavy rocket by United Launch Alliance (ULA) on April 9 at 12:53 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The rocket, carrying the NROL-70 mission for the ...

Posted By - Avus
April 13, 2024 • 0 min read
Falcon 9 lands

Falcon 9 lands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship – completing the first 20th launch and landing of a booster!

Posted By - Avus