News Archive / Tagged: The Range

• New Horizons course correction puts spacecraft on target to Ultima Thule

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 10th, 2018

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the most distant ever course-correction maneuver by any spacecraft on Sunday, Dec. 2, firing its thrusters for just 105 seconds to adjust its velocity by approximately 2.2 miles per hour.

• Who needs the Guardians of the Galaxy when we have OSIRIS-REx?

  Cullen DesforgesDecember 10th, 2018

  Last week, a spacecraft arrived at one of the smallest objects ever visited by a NASA mission after a multi-billion mile journey around the Solar System.

• ‘Hold hold hold’: NROL-71 mission scrubbed

  Derek RichardsonDecember 9th, 2018

  LOMPOC, Calif. — Just seconds before the planned liftoff of a Delta IV Heavy rocket with the NROL-71 payload, an automatic abort of the launch sequence was triggered.

• Classified: A review of US defense missions launched in 2018

  Patrick AttwellDecember 5th, 2018

  LOMPOC, Calif. -- 2018 has seen five payloads launched for the Department of Defense. Two of these missions were classified and one failed. With the upcoming flight of a ULA Delta Heavy with the NROL-71, SpaceFlight Insider takes a look back at the DoD's 2018 launch manifest.

• Arianespace launches two geosynchronous satellites to orbit

  Joe LatrellDecember 4th, 2018

  Arianespace successfully launched flight VA246 carrying geosynchronous satellites for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) from its facility in French Guiana.

• OSIRIS-REx arrives at Bennu asteroid

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 4th, 2018

  NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has successfully arrived at its destination, the asteroid Bennu.

• Opportunity: All’s quiet on the Martian front…

  Jim SharkeyDecember 4th, 2018

  While the Martian skies have cleared of the dust that enveloped much of the Red Planet, NASA's Opportunity rover remains silent in Perseverance Valley. The rover was last heard from on June 10, 2018. As of November 27, the mission team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had sent 359 recovery commands in a effort to wake the rover.

• One of the final missions for Rokot booster lifts off from Plesetsk

  Jason RhianNovember 30th, 2018

  One of the last planned launches of a Rokot booster took to the skies above the Plesetsk Cosmodrone’s Site 133. It marked a rare flight of a rocket that can trace its lineage back to an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The flight lifted off at 05:00 MSK (9:00 p.m. EST) on Sept. 29, 2018.

• India launches HysIS satellite along with 30 co-passengers on PSLV-C43

  Curt GodwinNovember 29th, 2018

  At 9:58 a.m. Indian Standard Time (IST) on Thursday, November 29, 2018 (11:28 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 28), the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully delivered the HysIS imaging satellite, along with 30 smaller satellites, to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) on flight PSLV-C43.

• Eternal Ice Age: Unusual ridges near Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia formed by ancient glaciers

  Laurel KornfeldNovember 28th, 2018

  Oddly-shaped ridges located adjacent to Pluto's Sputnik Planitia were created by ancient nitrogen ice glaciers, according to a group of scientists led by the SETI Institute's Oliver White.

• More than $150 million embezzled during construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 27th, 2018

  Information revealed by Russian prosecutors provide insight into the scale of corruption during the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

• How two NASA missions will rewrite what we know about our solar system

  Laurel KornfeldNovember 24th, 2018

  An asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter and a Kuiper Belt Object four billion miles away will both have their mysteries unveiled when NASA missions explore them in December and January.

• Virgin Orbit successfully completes carry test of LauncherOne

  Lloyd CampbellNovember 23rd, 2018

  On Nov. 18 2018, Virgin Orbit completed its first successful carry test of the LauncherOne system. LauncherOne is an air launched two-stage rocket that is designed to be able to carry small satellites into low-Earth orbit.

• Vega launches Earth-observing satellite for Morocco

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 21st, 2018

  Using Europe’s light-lift Vega launcher, Arianespace orbited the Mohammed VI-B Earth-observing satellite for the Kingdom of Morocco.

• Long March 2D sends 5 satellites into orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 20th, 2018

  A Long March 2D rocket took to the skies early Tuesday to orbit the Shiyan-6 Earth-observing spacecraft and four smaller satellites for China.