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For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director (NTD) performed this check via a voice communications link with other NASA personnel. The NTD was the leader of the shuttle test team responsible for directing and integrating all flight crew, orbiter, external tank/solid rocket booster and ...
NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus. 2028 (TBD) [40] Commercial launch vehicle Cape Canaveral or Kennedy: TBA: Sample Retrieval Lander: NASA / ESA: TMI to Martian surface: Mars sample-return Mars Ascent Vehicle: NASA: Martian surface to TMI: Mars sample-return Lander component of the NASA–ESA Mars sample-return mission. It will carry NASA ...
First Falcon 9 launch to use a return to launch site (RTLS) booster recovery profile on a launch to GTO. First commercial satellite with Roll Out Solar Array that were deployed on 10 January 2024. [3] [4] 5 January 11:20 [6] Kuaizhou 1A: Y28 Jiuquan LS-95A ExPace: Tianmu-1 15–18 Xiyong Microelectronics Low Earth Meteorology: In orbit ...
NASA Venture Class Launch Services 2 (VCLS 2) Mission Two, [4] officially known as VCLS Demo-2FB. The ELaNa 43 mission, consisting of 8 CubeSats, [5] will launch on this flight. [6] Mission designated "Noise of Summer". 4 July 22:49 [9] [10] Long March 6A: 6A-Y7 Taiyuan LA-9A CASC: Tianhui 5C CNSA: Low Earth Earth observation: In orbit ...
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
First launch of a fully expended Falcon Heavy. [149] Astranis Block 1 mission. ViaSat-3 Americas, though operational, suffered an antenna deployment failure after launch that reduced its capacity by over ninety percent, triggering a $421 million insurance claim. [150] 4 May 07:31:00 [153] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 5-6 Cape Canaveral SLC ...
"NASA stated cost increases, delays to the launch date, and the risks of future cost growth as the reasons to stand down on the mission." NASA announced they would consider "expressions of interest" from industry to use the "VIPER rover system at no cost to the government". In October 2024, VIPER passed all pre-launch tests. [48] [49] Janus: 2023
The launch history of NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) since the program formed in 1998 at Kennedy Space Center. The launch of NASA robotic missions occurred from a number of launch sites on a variety of rockets. After the list of launches are descriptions of select historic LSP missions. [1] [2]