ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster, B1062, lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 6-49 mission. This marked the first time a booster launch and landed for a 20th time. Image: Adam
Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Masahito Moriyama, (left) JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, look at a model of the rover that Japan will provide in exchange for landing two Japanese astronauts
A ULA Delta 4 Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37 on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. This was the 16th and final launch of a Delta 4 Heavy rocket. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now The second time was the
“These are unthinkable numbers, but we’re not breaking any physics to achieve this.” SpaceX will continue to iterate on Starship. Elon Musk has been talking publicly about his sweeping vision for Mars settlement for nearly eight years now, dating to
United Launch Alliance may seek certification from the Space Force after one flight. The first Vulcan rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. After the impressive debut of the Vulcan rocket in January,
Footage obtained by TechCrunch shows the catastrophic ending that Astra’s Rocket 3.0 suffered during prelaunch testing in March 2020. The explosion, which occurred at Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex, was simply reported as an “anomaly” at the time, an industry
A Senate bill would extend the learning period limiting commercial human spaceflight occupant safetyregulations by five years but set into motion efforts to later create such regulations. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — Two bills recently introduced into the Senate would
Japan’s SLIM moon lander captured this view of its landing site shortly after surviving its second lunar night. The mission team posted this photo via X on March 27, 2024. (Image credit: JAXA) SLIM’s not dead yet. The SLIM spacecraft,
SpaceX’s Starship 29 conducted a multi-engine static fire test ahead of IFT-4. 🎥 Video from Mary (@BocaChicaGal), and Starbase Live. ✂️ Edited by Thomas Hayden (@_thomashayden). ⚡ Become a member of NASASpaceflight’s channel for exclusive discord access, fast turnaround clips,
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) pose in front of a graphic of the mission patch for the Starliner Crew Flight Test. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now NASA is five weeks away from putting astronauts aboard a new