October 23, 2013: The Orbital Sciences Cygnus Demo vehicle successfully launched on an Antares rocket on September 18th from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops, Virginia. Once on orbit, it performed a series of on-orbit flight demonstrations, then rendezvoused with and berthed to the [...]
September 17, 2013: On September 18, 2013, Orbital Sciences will launch their Cygnus cargo resupply vehicle on its maiden voyage to the International Space Station (ISS) via an Antares rocket. The flight, named G. David Low in memory of the former astronaut [...]
September 7, 2013: Today the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced completion of the destructive re-entry of the fourth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), named Kounotori-4, bringing to an end its nearly month-long mission. After a successful attached operations phase, HTV-4 was unberthed [...]
August 9, 2013: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched their fourth H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-4) from Tanegashima Space Center on August 3, 2013 at 14:48:46 GMT. After successfully completing phasing, the HTV-4 was given the “GO” to fly under automatic control [...]
June 15, 2013: The European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), known as “Albert Einstein,” successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) this morning despite anomalies sustained by both ATV and ISS during the rendezvous. The ATV was launched into orbit [...]
May 31, 2013: The NASA JSC Software Awards Selection Committee has chosen the Partition Level Application Test for Orion (PLATO) development team for the 2013 JSC Exceptional Software Award. PLATO is a software tool developed by NASA ER6 with a development team [...]