Outer-Space.org

Tag: Sierra Navada

  • Commercial Resupply Contracts 2

    —

    by

    ChrisDMarshall
    in , , ,

    Last September NASA released a request for proposals (RFP) for a second record of contracts to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) through 2024. The proposals were due by November 14 with the awards expected in May this year. At the time of the RFP both Orbital Sciences (now Orbital ATK) and SpaceX were flying…

  • Weekly Space Blog 5/23

    —

    by

    ChrisDMarshall
    in , , , , ,

    SpaceX Dragon completes successful mission Last Sunday at 3:05pm the SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully completed it’s CRS-3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with a splashdown in the Pacific ocean. Launched on April 18th aboard a Falcon 9 rocket the Dragon spacecraft, carrying nearly 5,000 lbs of supplies and payloads including two in the…

  • Weekly Space Blog 8/24

    —

    by

    ChrisDMarshall
    in , , , ,

    WISE approved for asteroid survey NASA announced this week that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will be taken out of hibernation to start a three year mission to search for Near Earth Objects.  While the primary instruments on the vehicle required frozen hydrogen to operate which ran out in 2011 the other instruments…