Month: February 2009

NASA will launch the NOAA-N weather/atmospheric scanning satellite at 2:22 a.m. PT Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., atop a Delta II rocket supplied by United Launch Alliance (ULA)....

A ground control system has shown it can control a Global Positioning System (GPS) asset, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced today. The unit demonstrated command and control of a GPS...

After a two-year, top to bottom renovation, the High Bay Facility of the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building at Kennedy Space Center is ready to begin preparations to build the...

The first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite, completed a test using new flight software permitting highly reliable spacecraft command and control operations, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced....

The Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office recently released a request for information (RFI) to help accomplish the office develop a rapid response space center, called Chileworks. U.S....

The U.S. Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) worked in a British M270B1 launcher, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. That test launch was conducted at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Observers...

The launch of the Koronas-Foton sun-scanning satellite atop a Tsiklon-3 rocket has been postponed indefinitely, Russian mission control announced, according to the Itar-Tass news agency. Officials didn’t say why the...

The forward skirt extension of the next-generation Ares I-X rocket passed a separation test, NASA announced. Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] conducted the test at its Promontory, Utah, facilities. The rocket...

Space Shuttle Discovery is poised to launch next week on the STS-119 Mission to the International Space Station. Discovery will rise at 7:32 a.m. ET Feb. 12 (Thursday) from Launch...

NASA selected four teams to observe the impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, with the lunar surface during the mission’s search for water ice...