An Atlas V 401 rocket from ULA (United Launch Alliance) has launched a Lockheed Martin-built, NASA Discovery-class spacecraft into orbit. Lift-off took place at 0934 GMT on 16 October from Cape Canaveral, USA, and utilised the “401” Atlas V configuration with no...
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has won a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. Using an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, the mission will launch in October 2021. Launch-related costs are set to total US$148.3...
The Lucy mission, to be launched in 2021, was one of two missions to be selected for Discovery mission funding out of five contenders. The other winning contender was the Psyche mission which will be launched in 2023. Both missions are asteroid related. Lucy is...
Congrats to CNET for getting to fly the Altair lunar lander simulator at NASA Ames Research Center (and thanks to Clark Lindsey for the link). Go here and here and here for more Altair related video from previous Hyperbola reports. And find here all of the Hyperbola...
While NASA’s Altair lunar lander design studies hang around in US Review of Human Space Flight Plans committee report limbo, the space agency appears to be doing some work still and this Langley Research Center procurement synopsis is asking for ideas about...
