Dream Chaser will wait again for its first flight to space. The Dream Chaser spaceplane from Sierra Space will not launch this summer as planned aboard United Launch Alliance‘s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket. That means ULA plans to press ahead with two critical national security preparation launches that must be finished by the end […]
SpaceX bigwigs celebrated the arrival of a new American capsule on the human-spaceflight scene today (June 5). That spacecraft is Boeing’s Starliner, which is carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams toward the International Space Station (ISS) after launching this morning atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. “Congratulations on a successful […]
On Thursday, a Boeing Starliner made a cautious, one-mile-per-hour trek out to the launch pad atop a ULA Atlas V rocket ahead of the spacecraft’s first crewed flight to the International Space Station. Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain at the space station for about a week to test the Starliner […]
United Launch Alliance technicians will work this week assessing — and potentially replacing — a mechanical gas-venting valve that triggered Monday’s scrub of NASA’s historic Boeing Starliner crewed flight test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. “It’s not dissimilar to many other valves like that. You have one in your home on your hot water […]
CAPE CANAVERAL — Atlas V is a venerable rocket, but it’s about to break new territory: Carrying humans instead of uncrewed missions on board. United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket has been in service for two decades, carrying missions like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter or the OSIRIS-REx sample return mission to asteroid Bennu since 2002. […]
The long-awaited Crewed Flight Test (CFT) of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally upon us. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch Starliner with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on a shakedown mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 6. This will be Starliner’s third flight, but […]
After six decades of launches, the liftoff of the last-ever Delta rocket on Tuesday (April 9) brought with it a change in the way the U.S. sends satellites, interplanetary probes and spacecraft into Earth orbit. United Launch Alliance (ULA) ignited its last Delta IV Heavy rocket to launch NROL-70, a classified payload for the U.S. […]
The United Launch Alliance is counting down to the final launch of its Delta IV Heavy rocket. Tuesday’s liftoff is scheduled for 12:53 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. ULA scrubbed the launch two weeks ago because of an issue with a pipe. The rocket will help carry out the NROL-70 mission for the […]
The final launch ever of United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy, the last of the Delta family of rockets, won’t fly this weekend. In the meantime, SpaceX has a pair of launches on the Space Coast set for Saturday night. First up from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A is the Eutelsat-36X mission flying a […]
Marketed as “the most metal of rockets,” United Launch Alliance’s massive triple-core Delta IV Heavy roars to life amid a blazing hydrogen fireball on the launch pad, with raging flames billowing and blackening its orange boosters seconds before liftoff. Heavy-metal-music pyrotechnic comparisons aside, Rob Long has a soft spot for the retiring mega-rocket — as […]
United Launch Alliance’s new red-and-white Vulcan rocket lifted off in the early Monday morning darkness directly on time during its maiden flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, propelling the Peregrine robotic lunar lander to its planned Feb. 23 moon landing. “It was so exciting. I ran outside so I could watch this thing lift […]
United Launch Alliance may be purchased by Blue Origin or another potential suitor, the Wall Street Journal reported — and company officials are declining comment. Meanwhile, ULA crews continue preparing for Monday’s historic maiden flight of the Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, a pivotal landmark for the company. Two weeks ago, the […]