CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – After many months of delays getting to this point Blue Origin finally and successfully completed a lengthy, impressive and robust 38 second long hotfire test of the first stage engines of only the 2nd ever Blue Origin New Glenn rocket NG-2 on late Thursday evening, Oct. 30 at pad 36. The NG-2 liftoff on a NASA
TITUSVILLE, FL – After multiple explosive and catastrophic failures over the past year SpaceX was able to complete a very successful final test flight of its mammoth Starship Super Heavy rocket – and it was briefly visible to us here in central Florida just after sunset on Oct. 13. Notably this was the final flight of the Starship Super Heavy
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – After multiple days of weather delays from hurricanes ravaging the Atlantic Ocean, a SpaceX Falcon 9 finally lifted off Monday night, Oct 13, to successfully deliver the third batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites to LEO for Amazon. Liftoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 took place at 9:58 p.m. EDT (0158 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has discovered rock samples that contain ‘potential biosignatures’ amounting to the best ever evidence to date for microbial life existing on the Red Planet in the distant past billions of years ago – agency officials announced at a news briefing and in a new press release on Sept. 10. However the discovery
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA unexpectedly announced its bringing the previously cancelled VIPER Lunar Rover mission back to life and selected Blue Origin to launch the robot to the Moon’s South Pole in search of lunar ice and in support of the agency’s Artemis human landing campaign. On Sept. 19, NASA reversed course on the VIPER cancellation and announced the
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Blue Origin reports in a post that they are readying their 2nd New Glenn rocket for launch sometime around the late October to early November timeframe – so long as all goes well with a hotfire test of the first stage in mid-October time period. The long delayed flight dubbed New Glenn-2 (NG-2) will be tasked
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – A luscious liftoff performance by the most powerful United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket delivered the Kuiper 3 mission to LEO for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband constellation – just past sunrise on Sept. 25. The Atlas V 551 rocket liftoff from Space Launch Complex-41 took place right on time at 8:09 a.m.
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – The most powerful version of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket sits poised for liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast on Thursday morning evening Sept. 25 ready to blast the third batch of Amazons Kuiper broadband constellation of commercial internet comsats to orbit by ULA – setting up a new system for
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A trio of NASA and NOAA science satellites were launched at sunrise Wednesday, Sept. 24, by SpaceX from the Florida Space Coast to the L1 Lagrange Point to investigate space weather and map the suns influence across our Solar System from a unique vantage point thats located a million miles (1,5 million km) from Earth.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Today, Sept. 23, we media had the opportunity for an up close visit to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and set up our remote cameras to photograph the launch of the NASA NOAA joint endeavor to launch a trio of ambitious new space weather science missions on Wednesday, Sept. 24 led by