Space Launch System: How to launch NASA’s new monster rocket
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 22, 2012
With the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) falling silent after the retirement of the Space Shuttle, it’ll be at least five years before the public will see the iconic sight of NASA’s follow-on vehicle rising off the launch pad. Interestingly, the Space Launch System (SLS) will follow some of the Shuttle’s heritage of “Flight Operations” – [...]
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Vega rocket prepared for first flight
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 7, 2012
The primary Vega launch campaigns begin in November with the fitting of the P80 first stage on the launch pad. The two solid-propellant second and third stages were additional to the vehicle; follow by the AVUM – Attitude & Vernier Upper component – liquid-propellant fourth stage. All four stages have undergone concluding acceptance, counting the [...]
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Inaugural Vega Rocket Poised at Europe’s South American Spaceport
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 2, 2012
1st Fully assembled Vega Rocket on ESA Guiana launch pad for Inaugural Flight – February 2012 ESA’s new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are underway for the rocket’s inaugural flight lofting 9 satellites as early as February 9 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Credits: ESA – [...]
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Delta IV Rocket Launches from Cape Canaveral with US Military Satellite
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 20, 2012
A beautiful night for a launch Thursday evening as a heavy-lift Delta IV rocket thundered off the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, sending a broadband communications satellite into orbit for the US military. Observers at the launch site said they could see the rocket several minutes into the flight, witnessing the separation of [...]
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Fifty-Seven Student Rocket Teams to Take NASA Launch Challenge
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 14, 2012
More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. The teams will build and test large-scale rockets of their own design in April 2012. NASA created the twin Student Launch Projects to spark students’ imaginations, [...]
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Shuttle Atlantis’ rocket boosters arrive at Port Canaveral
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 29, 2011
NASA’s Liberty Star tows home Atlantis’ booster today. (Atkeison)The twin rocket boosters which launched NASA’s final space shuttle mission were returned back to Cape Canaveral on Sunday.As the first booster arrived at noon, it received a heroes welcome as a small fire boat pumped water up and out in a salute to the first arriving [...]
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Lawmaker questions NASA’s rocket decision
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 30, 2011
WASHINGTON — A California congressman is asking a federal watchdog agency to investigate whether NASA’s plans to build a big new rocket violates government rules on competition, as the Space Launch System relies heavily on existing agreements with shuttle and other manufacturers. In a letter dated Sept. 22, U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., requests that [...]
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Delta IV rocket to launch Air Force navigation satellite
Posted by brandoniswrite on July 31, 2011
An unmanned rocket will deliver a next generation navigational satellite into earth orbit for the U.S. Air Force on Friday from America’s Space Coast.The Air Force’s 45th weather office indicated today that there is a 70% chance for favorable weather at launch time.”On launch day conditions aloft will consist of an upper level high pressure [...]
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This Time It’s Both Rocket Science AND Surgery
Posted by brandoniswrite on July 25, 2011
Not all great collaborations are planned. In fact, many of the best partnerships are the work of timing and serendipity. This is the case with two friends who met to talk over their lives and work and wound up brainstorming a new development with the potential to benefit people all over the globe. Scott Dulchavsky, [...]
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NASA Begins Testing of Marshall Space Flight Center’s Next-Generation J-2X Rocket Engine
Posted by brandoniswrite on July 19, 2011
A 1.9-second ignition test July 14 of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine. (NASA/SSC) Click for larger image NASA conducted a combined chill test and 1.9-second ignition test July 14 of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine that could help carry humans beyond low-Earth orbit to deep space. The test at John C. Stennis Space Center is [...]
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