Satellite News

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon/CRS6; Date: 14 April 2015, 2010 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Dragon supply vessel is on its way to the International Space Station; however an attempt to soft-land the rocket’s first stage failed.

Rocket Lab has unveiled the Rutherford engine, revealing that the Electron launch system – a small orbital launch vehicle – is the world’s first battery-powered rocket.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) unveiled its Next Generation Launch System (NGLS) today at the 31st Space Symposium. The new rocket, Vulcan, will transform the future of space by making launch services more affordable and accessible, according to the company.

The launch of the sixth Commercial Resupply Services mission to the ISS was cancelled today owing to bad weather.

The launch of an X-37B spaceplane aboard an Atlas 5 will slip at least two weeks, United Launch Alliance said.

Pre-launch processing of a Proton-M with Briz-M upper stage and the Mexican MexSat-1 communications satellite continues at Baikonur cosmodrome.

Orbital ATK, Inc. has signed a US$90 million contract with Lockheed Martin to provide the Attitude Control Motor (ACM) for Orion’s Launch Abort System (LAS).

Blue Origin recently completed acceptance testing of its BE-3 rocket engine, the first new hydrogen engine to be developed in the United States in more than a decade. It has been fired for more than 30,000 seconds over the course of 450 tests.