U.S. Space Force and Space and Missile Systems Center successfully launches NROL-101 mission

Bill Jelen

November 14, 2020

ULA
November 14, 2020
Bill Jelen

United Launch Alliance delivers NROL-101 to orbit aboard a recently-upgraded Atlas V rocket, flying with Northrop Grumman GEM-63 Solid Rocket Boosters for the first time.

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GPS-III SV04 (Sacagawea) launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space.

SpaceX Delivers 4th GPS-III Satellite to Orbit

GPS
November 6, 2020
Michael Howard

SpaceX's 97th Falcon-family launch sends GPS-III SV04 to orbit for the United States Space Force

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A still frame from an animation released by the OSIRIS-REx team depicts the TAGSAM collection head being stowed in the sample return capsule. Credit: NASA/NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center/OSIRIS-REx Mission

Expect Three Days of Contingency Operations as Regolith Leaks from OSIRIS-REx

NASA
October 26, 2020
Bill Jelen

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is a victim of its own success. Five pieces of the asteroid have prevented a Mylar flap from closing, allowing valuable science material to leak out. More material will leak out over three upcoming days of stow activity.

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket reaches transsonic speed as it propels another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit. Photo credit: Michael Howard / We Report Space

SpaceX Launches Fifteenth Batch of Starlink Satellites

SpaceX
October 24, 2020
Michael Howard

Starlink v1.0 L-14 (15th dedicated Starlink mission) launches at 11:31am EDT, October 24, 2020.

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Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on Oct. 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid

OSIRIS-REx
October 23, 2020
Bill Jelen

NASA OSIRIS-REx mission team releases additional information about Touch-and-Go.

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