Satellite News

United Launch Alliance scrubbed the launch of a spy satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense for the second time this week due to weather-related complications.

GOES-T, the third satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R Series, is fully assembled and beginning a set of rigorous tests. The testing is taking place at Lockheed Martin Corporation’s Littleton, Colorado, facility, where the spacecraft was built.

DARPA just awarded a $14 million task order that will support a program called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations.

SpaceX and NASA are preparing for the first full-fledged crew flight to the International Space Station, which will look similar — but not identical — to the crewed test flight this summer.

The spacecraft will drop off its precious parcels and then swing back out into space towards another rocky destination.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a classified spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office Wednesday night (Sept. 30).

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine will appear before a U.S. Senate Committee today to discuss NASA’s future missions and plans for its Artemis moon program.

On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!