Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a second CLPS transportation order to the Moon, this time for the Blue Ghost 2 lander mission which NASA has payloads on under a US$112 million contract made under the NASA CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) programme. Blue...
A new style, for a new space era – that’s the message NASA wants to send with the unveiling of brand new spacesuits for the return to the Moon, designed by Axion Space. The Artemis III spacesuit prototype, the AxEMU, was unveiled during a “Moon 2 Mars” festival hosted...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 successfully launched the Dragon CRS-27 cargo craft on its International Space Station (ISS) resupply flight for NASA. The launch took place at 0030 GMT on 15 March from the former Space Shuttle and Saturn V pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space...
The Crew Dragon – NASA Crew 5 (Endurance) – safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, USA on 12 March at 0202 GMT. After an automated 11 minute de-orbit burn the craft re-entered and deployed its main chutes at an...
Endeavour, a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four people for NASA’s Crew-6 mission, is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s Endeavour was launched on a Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA at...
Astra Space has released its investigation findings into the Astra Rocket 3.3 launch failure which lost a pair of NASA’s TROPICS-1 mission satellites. The TROPICS-1 mission launched on 12 June 2022 on Astra’s Rocket 3.3, serial number LV0010. The rocket...
