Boeing’s Chris Ferguson unveiled the new name for Boeing’s CST-100 commercial crew capsule today during a ceremony inaugurating the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center …
Orbital ATK’s Frank Culbertson said today that return-to-flight of the Antares rocket now will be in “spring” 2016. Earlier indications were that it would be in March. Instead, a second …
Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and David Vitter (R-LA) are asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to undertake a “full review” of NASA’s commercial cargo contracts. Both contractors, Orbital ATK and …
UPDATE, September 2, 2015, 12:50 am EDT: Soyuz TMA-18M launched successfully on time at 12:37 am EDT. Docking is scheduled for September 4 at 3:42 am EDT. ORIGINAL STORY, September …
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said today that it will be a “couple of months” before the Falcon 9 rocket returns to flight, longer than the company anticipated. She also said …
Summer is coming to an end and this will be the last of our “summer vacation” multi-week lists of upcoming space policy events. This edition covers two weeks, August 31-September …
UPDATE, August 28, 2015, 11:25 pm EDT: the upper stage firings were successful and Inmarsat-5 F3 has been successfully delivered into geostationary orbit. UPDATE, August 28, 2015, 8:00 am EDT: …
NASA told Congress this week that it is not giving SpaceX special treatment in the investigation of the Orb-3 and SpX-7 launch failures, but that the investigations are quite similar. …
Summer will be over before we know it, but for now, our list of upcoming space policy events still spans the next couple of weeks while “business” is slow. Congress …
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) successfully launched its fifth cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) today. The HTV5 or Kounotori5 mission is due to arrive at the ISS …