Tag: Space UpClose

Gallery: ULA Atlas V Rocket Poised for 2nd Launch Amazon Kuiper Broadband Constellation Comsats on Powerful ULA Atlas V

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – The most powerful version of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket poised for liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday afternoon June 16 – ready to blast the second  batch of Amazons Project Kuiper broadband constellation of commercial internet comsats to orbit – setting up a new system for direct head-to-head

Most Powerful ULA Atlas V Rocket Thunders to Orbit Carrying 1st Amazon Kuiper Constellation Comsats: Photos

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – The most powerful version of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket thundered aloft from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday evening April 28 and successfully delivered the 1st batch of Amazons Kuiper constellation commercial comsats to orbit – setting up a direct head-to-head competition with the already well-established SpaceX Starlink satellite system.

Video: Next steps for SpaceX Starship after 8th test flight explodes – Ken Kremer Live Interview on Fox 35 Orlando on 7 March 2025

GRAND CAYMAN – Ken Kremer, Managing Editor for Space UpClose, joined FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer on March 7, 2025 to discuss the next steps for Starship and SpaceX after the eighth flight test exploded on March 6, 2025. The Starship mission aims to bring astronauts back to the moon. Jean Wright and Ken Kremer of Space UpClose watched the SpaceX

SpaceX Launches NASA Hi-Res Air Quality Measuring Instrument on Commercial Intelsat Satellite: Photos

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – Just past midnight a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched under beautiful weather conditions carrying a NASA instrument air quality monitoring and pollution measuring instrument hosted aboard the commercial Intelsat 40E satellite for broadband internet services for North America – on its way to geostationary orbit from Florida’s Spaceport. NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution

NASA Names Artemis II Astronaut Moon Mission Crew Quartet

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the crew of four astronauts who will blast off on the historic Artemis II mission – as ‘humanity’s crew’ on humanity’s next epic journey beyond Earth orbit and around the Moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years! The history making international flight will