NASA tests supersonic shock probe using historical NACA flight test technique
NASA recently completed flight testing of a state-of-the-art instrument designed to capture high-quality measurements of shock waves created by supersonic aircraft in flight. It’s...
Boeing capsule goes off course, won’t dock at space station
Boeing’s new Starliner capsule went off course after launch Dec. 20 and won’t dock with the International Space Station during its first test flight....
NASA’s X-59 QueSST cleared for final assembly
NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is cleared for final assembly and integration of its systems following a major...
Boeing flight test for Commercial Crew Program will pave way for...
Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test is the second uncrewed test flight of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, a partnership with the aerospace industry to launch...
SpaceX successfully launches satellite
SpaceX successfully launched JCSAT-18/Kacific1 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 7:10 p.m., EST, Dec. 16.
The satellite...
Preparing to test Orion spacecraft requires a big plane, huge cranes,...
Although it looks like tin foil, the metallic material wrapped around Orion and the Heat Flux System is a material called Mylar. It’s used...
Northrop Grumman signs customer for first flight of OmegA
Northrop Grumman has announced that Saturn Satellite Networks has selected the OmegA space launch vehicle to launch up to two satellites on the rocket’s...
Blue Origin’s 12th mission is a success
Blue Origin’s New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket system had a wholly successful mission Dec. 11, 2019.
The rocket system lifted off at 11:53 a.m., CDT. The entire...
Lockheed Martin delivers Mars 2020 rover aeroshell to launch site
The capsule-shaped aeroshell that will protect NASA's Mars 2020 rover was delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida Dec. 12.
Built by Lockheed Martin, the aeroshell...
NASA, public mark assembly of SLS stage with Artemis Day
On Dec. 9, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine showed off the Space Launch System liquid-fueled rocket stage that will send the first Artemis mission to...
