Tuesday’s launch of an unmanned cargo ship to the International Space Station by a private company was canceled shortly before lift-off from the U.S. spaceport in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida. The countdown for the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was halted with just over one minute left due an unexpected technical problem. […]
Just seconds after launch on Tuesday morning, NASA’s Antares rocket exploded in a massive fireball above the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 6:22 am. The failed mission was a scheduled resupply for the space station and carried an unmanned Cygnus spacecraft laden with 5,000 pounds of food, as well as science experiments and other […]
Shortly after 1 a.m. Alaska time, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, as part of the Defense Department’s Conventional Prompt Global Strike technology development program, conducted a flight test of the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. Due to an anomaly, the test was terminated near the […]
NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight. The first launch opportunity for the test vehicle is June 3, when the launch window opens at 8:30 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (11:30 a.m. PDT/2:30 p.m. […]