SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Completes Demo-1 Mission for NASA
A SpaceX crew capsule has returned to Earth after a five-day stay at the International Space Station as part of NASA's Demo-1 uncrewed flight test, Florida Today reported Friday.
A SpaceX crew capsule has returned to Earth after a five-day stay at the International Space Station as part of NASA's Demo-1 uncrewed flight test, Florida Today reported Friday.
Boeing has started preparations for the flight demonstration of its CST-100 Starliner crew capsule in April and for a pad abort test in the following month as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday.
NASA and SpaceX announced plans to launch on March 2 the first unmanned test flight of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The space agency said Friday the Demonstration Mission-1 will take off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which aims to utilize U.S.-built and operated private space vehicles to bring astronauts to the ISS and other low-Earth orbit destinations.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has deployed two CubeSats from the International Space Station under a flight demonstration and test initiative. The CubeSats were launched from the orbital laboratory via a NanoRacks CubeSat platform as part of the CubeSat Assessment and Test mission, APL said Wednesday.
Spaceflight will fly a microsatellite for the Air Force Research Laboratory via a rideshare service with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of a mission to send a commercial communciations satellite built by Maxar Technologies’ SSL business into orbit, SpaceNews reported Friday.
Iridium Communications on Wednesday declared the completion of the $3B Iridium NEXT satellite constellation at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "The completion of the Iridium NEXT program signifies a new chapter in the Iridium story, one that sees us transforming from a big cash spender to a big cash generator," Iridium CEOÂ Matt Desch said in a statement published Wednesday.
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Boeing aims to launch its CST-100 Starliner spaceraft in March for an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station, Space.com reported Friday.
SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space.com reported Friday.
Iridium Communications has unveiled its L-band broadband service powered by the company’s $3B Iridium NEXT satellite network. The company said Wednesday initial activations of the Iridium Certus service kicked off in December 2018 for terrestrial and maritime applications with the aviation service expected later this year once certification is secured.
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