NASA took another step Tuesday to restore an American capability to launch astronauts from U.S. soil to the International Space Station by the end of 2017, subject to the availability of adequate funding. The agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) requested proposals from U.S. companies to complete development of crew transportation systems that meet NASA certification … Dowiedz się więcej
ATK (NYSE: ATK) propulsion, composite and spacecraft technologies supported today’s successful launch of an Orbital Sciences Minotaur I vehicle from Wallops Island, Va. The Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space-3 (ORS-3) mission marked the 11th launch of a Minotaur I vehicle. ORS-3 is the first of three flights planned to certify the integrated flight safety assembly … Dowiedz się więcej
The international space insurance sector was invited to French Guiana this week for an update from Arianespace, along with a first-hand look at the Spaceport’s launch facilities for its heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and light-lift Vega vehicles. This provided an opportunity to underscore Arianespace’s excellent launcher family mission success rate – providing high reliability … Dowiedz się więcej
OHB System AG and the Space Administration of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) signed an agreement providing for the use of funding from the national space program to finance a study to explore possible uses of the U.S. spacecraft Dream Chaser® developed and owned by U.S. company Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). Named DC4EU (Dream Chaser … Dowiedz się więcej
The preliminary requirements for Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 launcher have been agreed and the project is set to move on to the next stage. In November 2012, the ESA Council at Ministerial level, meeting in Naples, Italy, approved the start of preparatory activities for Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle. The objective of Ariane 6 … Dowiedz się więcej
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg returned to Earth today, landing in the Kazakhstan steppe. Their return flight, landing at 02:49 GMT (03:49 CET), was in the same Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft that flew them to the International Space Station on 29 May. Luca and Karen will now travel … Dowiedz się więcej