http://www.spaceflightnews.net NASA and Spaceflight news about Space Exploration,rockets,launches,space shuttle,space station,mars,moon,spaceraft en-gb http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090703101458116 Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 19/20 crew boarded their Soyuz return spacecraft attached to the station and moved it to a different docking port on Thursday, July 2. The operation was aimed at preparing the International Space Station to make room for docking of the Progress M-67 cargo supply spaceship to the docking port of the Zvezda-SM instrumentation compartment later this month. FREE VIDEO: ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090703084214621 KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA - The Ariane 5 rocket scored its 31st consecutive success today with the launc of TerreStar-1, the world's heaviest commercial satellite, for North American operator TerreStar Networks Inc. The launch ocurred at 1:52 p.m. EDT from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. Lifting off from the ELA-3 launch zone on a rare afternoon departure, the Ariane 5 deployed TerreStar-1 into geostationary transfer orbit 26 minutes later. FREE VIDEO: ARIANE 5 LIFTS OFF WITH TERRESTAR-1 http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090703095853798 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA successfully conducted a tanking test of space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank today, to ensure repairs to tank's liquid hydrogen vent line were successful. All indications are that the vent valve and valve performed as expected, which paves the way for the shuttle to liftoff on a space station assembly mission on July 11.FREE VIDEO: FREE VIDEO: ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090702102852642 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - A day after its launch was scrubbed for bead weather, the newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, rocketed into orbit today after lifting off from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 at 6:51 p.m. EDT on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket. VIDEO: DELTA IV LIFTS OFF WITH GOES-OVIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAYS - PART 1VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAYS - PART 2VIDEO: OUR VIEW OF THE GOES-O LAUNCHVIDEO: LAUNCH MANAGER RICH MURPHY POSTLAUNCH COMMENTSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: CAPE CANAVERAL AE VIDEO CHANNEL 2ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: CAPE CANAVERAL AE VIDEO CHANNEL 3ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: CAPE CANAVERAL AE VIDEO CHANNEL 4ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV LAUNCH COVERAGE - 150K BPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV LAUNCH COVERAGE - 1.2 MBPS - PART 1ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV LAUNCH COVERAGE - 1.2 MBPS - PART 2ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV LAUNCH COVERAGE - 1.2 MBPS - PART 3HI-DEF VIDEO: NASA TV HD LAUNCH CLIP--------VIDEO: TODAY'S LAUNCH ATTEMPT IS SCRUBBEDVIDEO: DELTA ROCKET PROCESSINGVIDEO: NASA'S KRIS WALSHVIDEO: SERVICE TOWER ROLLBACKVIDEO: GOES PROJECT OVERVIEWVIDEO: GOES-O SPACECRAFT OVERVIEWALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: CAPE CANAVERAL AE VIDEO CHANNEL 2ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: CAPE CANAVERAL AE VIDEO CHANNEL 3ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE COVERAGE OF TODAYS LAUNCH ATTEMPT - 150 KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE COVERAGE OF TODAY'S LAUNCH ATTEMPT - 1.2 MBPS - PART 1ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE COVERAGE OF TODAY'S LAUNCH ATTEMPT - 1.2 MBPS - PART 2ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE COVERAGE OF TODAY'S LAUNCH ATTEMPT - 1.2 MBPS - PART 3ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE COVERAGE OF TODAY'S LAUNCH ATTEMPT - 1.2 MBPS - PART 4ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE COVERAGE OF TODAY'S LAUNCH ATTEMPT - 1.2 MBPS - PART 5--------VIDEO: GOES-O PRELAUNCH PRESS CONFERENCEALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: GOES-O PRELAUNCH PRESS CONFERENCE - 1.2 MBPSREAD: GOES-O LAUNCH PRESS KITREAD: GOES-O MISSION BOOKREAD: GOES-O FACT SHEETREAD: GOES DATABOOK http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090702102710612 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Today, a conduit financing package was approved by the Space Florida Board of Directors to reassign the lease for Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) to United Launch Alliance. Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp signed the resolution during today's meeting of the Space Florida Board that ensures no aerospace jobs at United Launch Alliance will be lost when the shuttle stops flying in 2010.AUDIO: LISTEN TO TODAY'S SPACE FLORIDA PRESS CONFERENCE http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090624192817285 The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone Tuesday with a lunar swingby and calibration of its science instruments. The satellite will search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south poleVIDEO: WATCH NASA TV COVERAGE OF LRO LUNAR ORBIT INSERTIONALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH NASA TV COVERAGE OF LRO LUNAR ORBIT INSERTION - 1.2 MBPS VIDEO http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090624192650375 After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT Tuesday. VIDEO: WATCH NASA TV COVERAGE OF LRO LUNAR ORBIT INSERTIONALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH NASA TV COVERAGE OF LRO LUNAR ORBIT INSERTION - 1.2 MBPS VIDEO http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090623054102547 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA's pathfinding mission back to the Moon blasted off today from Kennedy Space Center with the successful launch of the Lunar Reonnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft (LRO/LCROSS) aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. LRO will map the entire surface of the Moon in never-before seen detail while LCROSS seeks to answer one of lunar science's greatest questions: is there water in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's poles. VIDEO: ATLAS LIFTS OFF WITH LRO/LCROSS VIDEO: LONGER CLIP OF THE ATLAS LAUNCH VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAYS - PART 1 VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAYS - PART 2 VIDEO: OUR VIEW OF THE LAUNCH FROM KSC PRESS SITE VIDEO: LRO/LCROSS OVERVIEW VIDEO: MISSION OVERVIEW VIDEO: NASA LAUNCH DIRECTOR CHUCK DOVALE POSTLAUNCH COMMENTS VIDEO: LAUNCH HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO (CREDIT: ULA) VIDEO: ATLAS VEHICLE PROCESSING FOR LAUNCH VIDEO: ATLAS WITH LRO/LCROSS MOVES TO THE LAUNCH PAD VIDEO: LRO BEHIND THE SCENES (CREDIT: NASA) VIDEO: ANIMATION OF THE ATLAS LAUNCH PROFILE VIDEO: LRO SPACECRAFT PROCESSING VIDEO: LRO INTRO VIDEO (CREDIT: NASA) VIDEO: PRELAUNCH MISSION SCIENCE BRIEFING VIDEO: NASA LRO WEBCAST VIDEO: ATLAS ROLLOUT - AE CAMERA #2 - FOCUSED ON THE TOP OF THE ROCKET VIDEO: ATLAS ROLLOUT - AE CAMERA #3 - LOOKING BACK AT VIF FROM PAD ACCESS ROAD VIDEO: ATLAS ROLLOUT - AE CAMERA #4 - VIF ROOF CAMERA LOOKING TOWARD THE LAUNCH PAD VIDEO: LCRO/LCROSS B-ROLL VIDEO VIDEO: LRO - NASAS MISSION TO THE MOON VIDEO: PRELAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCE VIDEO: LRO/LCROSS SPACECRAFT IS TRANSPORTED TO THE LAUNCH PAD ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: ATLAS LAUNCH - AE CAMERA #2 - MULIPLE VIEWS ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: ATLAS LAUNCH - AE CAMERA #3 - VIF ROOF ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: ATLAS LAUNCH - AE CAMERA #4 - PAD PERIMETER ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: PRELAUNCH MISSION SCIENCE BRIEFING - 1.2 MBPS ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: LRO WEBCAST - 1.2 MBPS LISTEN: LRO/LCROSS LAUNCH COMMENTARY - L-4 MIN THROUGH SPACECRAFT SEPARATION ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: DOWNLOAD ENTIRE NASA TV LAUNCH COVERAGE - 1.2 MBPS - 2 GIG DOWNLOAD HI-DEF VIDEO: LRO/LCROSS HI-DEF LAUNCH REPLAYS http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090618071841887 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - For a second time in a week, NASA's efforts to launch space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to deliver hardware to the International Space Station were put on hold due to a leak of flammable hydrogen gas from a launch pad vent line connected to the shuttle's external tank. Endeavour's scrub means the next launch for NASA will be the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LRO / LCROSS) later this week.VIDEO: POST-SCRUB NEWS CONFERENCEVIDEO: NASA LAUNCH DIRECTOR MIKE LEINBACH SPEAKS AFTER SCRUBVIDEO: LAUNCH OF ENDEAVOUR IS SCRUBBEDVIDEO: GH2 LEAK IS FIRST DETECTEDVIDEO: GO FOR TANKING AND THE START OF MPS CHILLDOWNVIDEO: RSS RETRACTION ON MONDAYALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 1 - 150KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 2 - 150KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 3 - 150KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 4 - 150KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 1 - 1200KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 2 - 1200KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 3 - 1200KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ENTIRE TANKING AND LAUNCH COMMENTARY - PART 4 - 1200KBPSALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH ROTATING SERVICE RETRACTION - 1200KBPS http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=2009061613013977 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Today, space shuttle managers cleared Endeavour for launch Wednesday on a space station construction mission, pushing back launch of an unmanned mission to the Moon in order to accomodate the shuttle's delayed liftoff and maximize the launch windows for both spacecraft which run only until June 20.VIDEO: STS-127 COUNTDOWN STATUS BRIEFING - JUNE 15VIDEO: TECHNICIANS WORK TO REPAIR THE ET GH2 GUCPVIDEO: LRO MISSION B-ROLL VIDEOVIDEO: LRO - NASA MISSION TO THE MOONVIDEO: LRO/LCROSS PRELAUNCH PRESS CONFERENCEVIDEO: LRO/LCROSS SPACECRAFT MOVED TO THE LAUNCH PAD http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090615152316853 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Technicians at Kennedy Space Center accessed a gaseous hydrogen vent system at the launch pad to begin work to fix a leak that scuttled space shuttle Endeavour's countdown early Saturday morning. The repairs could lead to liftoff early Wednesday morning if a conflict can be resolved with the scheduled launch of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from the Air Force's Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral.IMAGES OF GUCP WORK IN PROGRESSVIDEO: POST-MMT MEETING NEWS CONFERENCE http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090613181126818 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA was forced to scrub today's launch of space shuttle Endeavour due to a leak of gaseous hydrogen in the umbilical system that vents the flammable gas away from the shuttle on the launch pad. Mission managers will meet this weekend to discuss repairs to the system and set a new launch date which will be no earlier than the June 17.VIDEO: JUNE 13 POST-SCRUB PRESS CONFERENCE http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090608212957775 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The seven astronauts for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission to the International Space Station are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew arrived at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility from Houston in a Shuttle Training Aircraft Gulfstream II jet at 11:53 p.m. EDT Monday, June 8. After arriving Commander Mark Polansky and his crew made brief statements to media who were gathered at the shuttle runway. Crew arrival begins four days of final preparations ahead of Endeavour's launch on Saturday, June 13 at 7:17 a.m.VIDEO: THE STS-127 CREW ARRIVES AT KSC FOR LAUNCH http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090607170925552 NASA managers concluded an executive-level flight readiness review today and cleared space shuttle Endeavour for launch later this month while the shuttle's crew conducted emergency procedures training at the launch site at Kennedy Space Center. NASA formally set Endeavour's launch on STS-127 for June 13 at 7:17:15 a.m. EDT, beginning a mission to deliver the final component of the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex to the space station.VIDEO: WATCH THE STS-127 POST-FLIGHT READINESS REVIEW NEWS BRIEFINGVIDEO: THE STS-127 CREW ARRIVES AT KSC FOR COUNTDOWN REHEARSALVIDEO: REPLAY OF STS-127 LAUNCH PAD CREW Q&A SESSION/A>VIDEO: ASTRONAUTS TAKE PART IN PRELAUNCH AIRCRAFT TRAINING'VIDEO: EMERGENCY EGRESS AND M-113 TRAINING http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090608210832786 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. -- The 45th Space Wing will cut the ribbon for a new satellite facility and break ground for a future spacecraft facility during a combined ceremony Thursday, May 28. Air Force officials and distinguished visitors will cut the ribbon for the newly constructed Satellite Spacecraft Alert Facility (SAF) in Area 59. The facility will protect small- to medium-sized satellites during severe weather, including hurricanes. http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090526193639753 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Two days late but none the worse for the wear, space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth today, landing in California after unstable weather in Florida forced mission control to wave off the first two landing opportunities at Kennedy Space Center. Directing commander Scott Altman and pilot Greg Johnson to divert to the west coast instead, Atlantis made a picture-perfect landing under sunny skies at Edward Air Force Base to conclude the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. COMPLETE STS-125 MISSION COVERAGE STS-125 ATLANTIS PHOTO GALLERIES READ: HST Servicing Mission 4 Media Guide READ: STS-125 Press Kit READ: STS-125 Fact Sheet VIDEO: STS-125 POSTLANDING PRESS CONFERENCE VIDEO: STS-125 MISSION HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO: SCOTT ALTMAN MAKES A STATEMENT AFTER LANDING VIDEO: STS-125 CREW INSPECTS ATLANTIS AFTER LANDING VIDEO: DECORBIT BURN VIDEO: ENTRY FLIGHT CONTROL TEAM REPLAY VIDEO: ATLANTIS LANDS AT EDWARDS AFB VIDEO: LANDING REPLAYS ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV COVERAGE OF TODAYS LANDING (150KBPS ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: STS-125 MISSION HIGHLIGHTS (1200KBPS) ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: FLIGHT CONTROL ENTRY TEAM REPLAY (1200KBPS) ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: LANDING REPLAYS (1200KBPS) ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV COVERAGE OF TODAYS LANDING (1200KBPS) - PART 1 ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV COVERAGE OF TODAYS LANDING (1200KBPS) - PART 2 ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV COVERAGE OF TODAYS LANDING (1200KBPS) - PART 3 ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV COVERAGE OF TODAYS LANDING (1200KBPS) - PART 4 ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV COVERAGE OF TODAYS LANDING (1200KBPS) - PART 5 ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: WATCH COMPLETE NASA TV COVERAGE OF TODAYS LANDING (1200KBPS) - PART 6 http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090608210130730 "Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key administration posts: General Charles Bolden, Administrator of NASA and Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA. http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090525191706609 NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 7:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island, Va. PharmaSat rode to orbit aboard a four-stage Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket. READ: TACSAT-3 FACT SHEETREAD: PRELAUNCH PRESS RELEASEREAD: CUBESAT BACKGROUNDERREAD: WALLOPS FACILITIES ACCESS PLANREAD: GROUNDS NETWORK USER'S GUIDEREAD: LOCAL INFORMATION GUIDREAD: WALLOPS MEDIA GUIDEREAD: MINOTAUR 1 FACT SHEETREAD: OOREOS OVERVIEWREAD: PARMASAT 1READ: PHARMASAT FACT SHEETREAD: PRESAT AND NANOSAIL OVERVIEWREAD: WALLOPS RANGE SAFETY MANUALREAD: WALLOPS RANGE USER'S GUIDEREAD: SCM LAUNCH ACCOMMODATIONSREAD: TACSAT-3 FACT SHEETREAD: WALLOPS CUSTOMER GUIDEVIDEO: LAUNCH VIDEO FROM VIP SITEVIDEO: MINOTAUR LAUNCHES TACSAT-3VIDEO: PROTECTIVE TOWER IS RETRACTED BEFORE LAUNCH http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=20090607170739424 Spacewalking astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustsel successfully performed the fifth and final set of repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope today, installing a new fine guidance sensor and three insulation panels over equipment compartments on the outside of the observatory. With all five spacewalks behind them, the crew of STS-125 now turns their attention to Atlantis' homecoming four days from now.VISIT OUR COMPLETE STS-125 MISSION ARCHIVESTS-125 ATLANTIS PHOTO GALLERIESVIDEO: FLIGHT DAY 8 HIGHLIGHTSVIDEO: FLIGHT DAY 8 CREW VIDEO DOWNLINKVIDEO: HST VIEWS FROM THE FLIGHT DECKVIDEO: MISSION STATUS BRIEFINGVIDEO: FLIGHT DAY 8 STOCC UPDATEALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: EVA 5 COVERAGE - PART 1ALL-ACCESS SUBSCRIBERS: EVA 5 COVERAGE - PART 2 http://www.spaceflightnews.net/article.php?story=200905251915007 Ariane 5 provided another demonstration of its operational flexibility in Arianespace service today by placing two payloads on their way to deep space missions that will provide new insights into the origins and future of our universe. Logos on the 17-meter-long Ariane 5 payload fairing include depictions of the Herschel and Planck, as well as the slogan: "The universe - yours to discover." READ: ARIANE V193 LAUNCH KITVIDEO: ARIANE LIFTS OFF WITH HERSCHEL AND PLANCK