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|Launch date:|May 22, 2018 Instantaneous Launch Window:| 12:47:58 p.m. PDT/19:47:58 UTC Backup Launch Window:| Wednesday, May 23 (12:42 p.m. PDT/19:42 UTC) Launch site:| SLC-4E Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA {colsp=2}L2018-05-22 19:47:58;%c%%ddd%/%hh%:%mm%:%ss%| {colsp=1}Mission...

A successful launch! Confirmed all microsats and Queqiao separated and on their way to the Moon! Andrew Jones on Twitter: "Chang'e-4: Main space programme contractor CASC confirms successful launch and insertion in lunar transfer orbit for the #Queqiao relay satellite…...

About 14 hours after Queqiao's launch from China, Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft and 15 cubesats will blast off from MARS Pad-0A from Wallops, VA to the ISS. |Launch date:|May 21, 2018 Launch Window Opens (5-minute window):| 4:39:00 a.m. EDT/08:39:00 UTC Launch Window Closes...

The mission's first phase will begin in less than a day! The Chinese will launch a communication relay satellite, called Queqiao, to an Earth-Moon L2 Halo orbit tomorrow. This will be followed by a launch of the real lander probe in 6 months time. Liftoff is scheduled to take place at...

The latest JPL Von Karman lecture series talks about Juno and its findings about Jupiter so far! Enjoy! Juno and The New Jupiter: What Have We Learned So Far? (live public talk) - YouTube

Some updates from the first deep-space cubesats. NASA set a new distance record for CubeSats on May 8 when a pair of CubeSats called Mars Cube One (MarCO) reached 621,371 miles (1 million kilometers) from Earth. One of the CubeSats, called MarCO-B (and affectionately known as "Wall-E" to the...

Time for Chinese spaceflight news! Chinese rewrite record, live 370 days in self-contained moon lab The Chinese version of the article is available at spaceflightfans.cn. Feel free to translate the page to your preferred language for reading.

Not a good news. NSF: Schedule for First SLS Core Stage Still Sliding *Personal thought: Seriously, what's wrong with the SLS program? Why is it taking so long? (I don't like to compare, but contrast this with unmanned missions like those of JPL, Goddard etc. the manned program seems to be...

Time to revive this thread! ULA selects Aerojet to provide Vulcan upper stage engine WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance has picked Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RL10 engine to power the upper stage of its next-generation Vulcan rocket, the second such contract Aerojet has secured in as many months...

Confirmed! A helicopter is going to Mars! Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA’s Next Red Planet Rover Mission Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Mars Helicopter had to prove that big things could come in small packages. The...

Live webcast: About the Satellite: {colsp=2}Specifications Type/Application:|Communication Operator:|Thales Alenia Space for Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Equipment:|14 standard C-band transponders26 Ku-band transponders Configuration:|Spacebus-4000B2...

New Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 M5 entries! ESA Selects 3 New Mission Concepts for Study

Some updates: 1. CHEOPS fairing sticker winning design A colourful design capturing the essence of ESA's CHEOPS mission, which will measure the size of planets as they cross in front of their parent stars, has been selected for the rocket carrying the satellite into space. The design will...

CRS-14 departed today! Just after the Insight launch webcast ended... :)

Less than one day to launch! Some video: Live broadcast from NASA TV (will begin at 3:30 a.m. PDT (6:30 a.m. EDT; 1030 GMT) on May 5): ULA trajectory design video: NASA's InSight Mars Mission: Countdown to T-Zero Prelaunch Briefing (JPL): Mission Profile: Don't forget to try out...

It's long over, but news are still pouring in. I guess we need a dedicated thread for this one. (This probe is older than OF! No pun intended. :lol:) Old Data, New Tricks: Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On The Galileo mission ended in 2003, but newly resurrected data...

It works! Finally, Xyon has fixed the update problem and now we can update our add-on with no issues! We will implement a new versioning system based on this. So, currently, it is version 0.1.1. Enjoy! Let us know should you encounter any bugs or issues. Happy orbiting. :cheers:

Blue Origin on Twitter: "Thunderstorms earlier this morning in West Texas. New liftoff target is 10:15 a.m. CDT, 15:15 UTC for New Shepard’s 8th test flight. Livestream starts at T-15 minutes on https://t.co/XNq9WB3aZ2… https://t.co/6zsnMorWxE"

This is the SLS add-on for Orbiter 2016. It includes all the SLS rockets under development by NASA, the conceptual Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway (previously known as the Deep Space Gateway, DSG) proposed by NASA and several ground support elements such as a crawler, the launch pad, the VAB...

Saturn I short documentary: First Ten Lives of Saturn I - YouTube