NASA’s Artemis II mission is advancing with the final preparations of the SLS rocket at Kennedy Space Center. The Orion stage adapter, a key component…
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NASA completed a full duration, 650-second hot fire of the RS-25 certification engine on November 29, continuing a critical test series to support future SLS…
The Progress 86 cargo craft launches to the station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:25 a.m. EST Friday, December 1. Credit: NASA TV…
Artist’s view of the configuration of Ariane 6 using four boosters (A64). Credit: ESA – D. Ducros Cinq, quatre, trois, deux, un. Allumage Vulcain! This…
On the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, this Ariane 6 test model was put through a combined test hot-fire (CTHF) before launch – over…
Technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed a major portion of a weld confidence article for the advanced upper stage of…
On November 8, 2023, NASA’s DISSIPATION mission was launched by a sounding rocket from Fairbanks, Alaska, with the goal of studying auroral impacts on the…
This image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the Veil Nebula or Cygnus Loop. To create this colorful image, observations were taken…
Prometheus full ignition, ArianeGroup test center Vernon, France June 22, 2023. The Prometheus engine has made key progress in testing, promising low-cost and reusability for…
Artist’s view of the configuration of Ariane 6 using four boosters (A64). Credit: ESA – D. Ducros ESA’s Ariane 6 vehicle tested its Vinci and…
The March 21 hot fire test of the RS-25 certification engine marked the fourth in a series aimed at validating new engine production by Aerojet…
NASA successfully conducted a 10-minute hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine on March 21, surpassing the required power levels and duration for SLS missions,…
NASA conducts an RS-25 hot fire test on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi on March 8, 2023.…
This artist’s rendering shows an aerial view of the liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. This Block 1 crew configuration of the rocket…
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test on November 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at…
Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could…
A vintage JPL graphic celebrating the Explorer 1 satellite. America joined the space race with the launch of this small, but important spacecraft. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech…
The GALCIT rocketeers taking a break from setting up their experimental rocket motor in the Arroyo Seco. Left to right: Rudolph Schott, Apollo M. O.…
This illustration shows the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite in orbit with its solar panels and KaRIn instrument antennas deployed. Credit: CNES NASAEstablished…
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch with Orion atop it from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s modernized spaceport at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…