by National Space Society | Apr 18, 2019 | Commercial Space, International Space Station, Space Development
By Dale Skran, NSS Chair of the Executive Committee On April 17th the final Cargo Resupply Services 1 mission to the ISS soared off the pad at 4:46 EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. The NG-11 (Northrup Grumman 11) flight will...
by National Space Society | Mar 10, 2019 | Commercial Space, NASA, Space Development
By George Mancuso After five days in orbit Crew Dragon Demo-1 undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and completed a picture-perfect landing with splashdown occurring at approximately 08:45 EST (1345 UTC) on March 8, 2019. The landing took place 230 miles...
by National Space Society | Mar 8, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Development
By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President With today’s complete success of the Demonstration Mission-1 uncrewed test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule, it seemed appropriate to provide an additional update to the “SpaceX Triple Trifeta” which was last written about in...
by National Space Society | Mar 3, 2019 | Commercial Space, NASA, Space Development
By George Mancuso On March 2, 2019 at 02:49:03 Eastern Time (07:49 UTC) a Dragon 2 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket and opened a new era in spaceflight. About 27 hours later the Dragon 2 successfully docked with the...
by National Space Society | Feb 28, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Business, Space Development
By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President The first six satellites of a constellation that could number up 2,000 rocketed to orbit February 27th on a Soyuz launched by Arianespace from French Guiana. OneWeb, founded in 2012, plans a low-cost global internet...
by National Space Society | Feb 22, 2019 | Commercial Space, Moon, Space Development
Image: Artist concept of the Beresheet lander on the Moon. Credit: SpaceIL. By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President Rather than repeating the facts about this launch, which you can easily find on other sources on the net, I would like to emphasize the “firsts”...
by National Space Society | Feb 14, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Development
OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President This is an update to a January 21 post that generated some controversy in the comments section. The controversy was about the following statement in the January 21 blog post: “The second reason the Falcon Heavy has...
by National Space Society | Jan 23, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space Development
Image: New Shepard flight NS-10 on the launch pad the morning of January 23rd, 2019. Courtesy Blue Origin. By Bob Brodbeck Blue Origin successfully launched the New Shepard suborbital rocket and uncrewed capsule to space today Wednesday January 23rd, and re-landed...
