ULA’s Atlas 5 launches U.S. Space Force experimental missile-warning satellite Original Publication Date: 2022-07-01 23:41 The rocket lifted off at 7:15 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral. The $1.1 billion USSF-12 mission to geosynchronous Earth orbit carried two ...

New head of Space Force acquisitions looks to get back to basics Original Publication Date: 2022-06-24 22:03 Frank Calvelli is assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration. Calvelli says a number of Space Force programs are years behind schedule and billions of ...

New head of Space Force acquisitions looks to get back to basics Original Publication Date: 2022-06-24 22:03:52+00:00 Frank Calvelli is assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration. One of his first moves will be to impose discipline into acquisitions. Calvelli ...

NASA encouraged by SLS countdown rehearsal Original Publication Date: 2022-06-22 11:50:01+00:00 NASA officials say they met most, but not all, of the objectives in a countdown rehearsal. The test was cut short because of a leak in a bleed line that takes hydrogen away from the vehicle. “It was ...

Astra launch of NASA TROPICS cubesats fails Original Publication Date: 2022-06-12 19:02:19+00:00 Astra's Rocket 3.3 vehicle, designated LV0010, lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:43 p.m. Eastern. The launch was the first of three for NASA's Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure ...

NASA audit reveals massive overruns in SLS mobile launch platform Original Publication Date: 2022-06-09 19:53:07+00:00 A new mobile launch platform that Bechtel is building for NASA will cost up to four times as much as originally planned. Mobile Launcher (ML) 2 will be used for launches of the ...