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Launch system Crew size Length (m) Diameter (m) Launch mass (kg) First spaceflight* Status Scaled Composites: SpaceShipOne: 100 km (62 mi) White Knight: 1: 8.53 8.05 3,600 21 June 2004 Retired (3/3) [note 1] Blue Origin: New Shepard Crew Capsule: 114 km (71 mi) (capsule, using the launch escape system motor) New Shepard: 6: 3.6 Crewed: July 20 ...
The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force (USAF) human spaceflight program in the 1960s. The project was developed from early USAF concepts of crewed space stations as reconnaissance satellites, and was a successor to the canceled Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar military reconnaissance space plane.
Deep Space Transport LLC is a joint venture that is set to provide launch services for the Space Launch System rocket. The joint venture consists of Boeing, the prime contractor for the Space Launch System core stage and the Exploration Upper Stage that will be used on Space Launch System missions, and Northrop Grumman, the prime contractor for the Space Launch System's solid rocket boosters.
NOAA has awarded, on 5 February 2021, the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Command and control contract to L3Harris in Melbourne, Florida.The contract has a total value of US$43.8 million, with a five-year performance period.
On January 4, 2007, NASA announced that the Ares I had completed its system requirements review, the first such review completed for any crewed spacecraft design since the Space Shuttle. [24] This review was the first major milestone in the design process, and was intended to ensure that the Ares I launch system met all the requirements ...
Space Launch Delta 30 (SLD 30) is a United States Space Force space launch delta, equivalent to an Air Force air base wing, assigned to Space Systems Command and headquartered at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The Space Launch Delta 30 is responsible for all space launch operations from the west coast, which
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy.As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. [9]
Space Rider is designed to launch atop the Vega-C launch vehicle from Guiana Space Centre. [4] The spacecraft is being designed to conduct missions up to two months long in low Earth orbit with up to 600 kg [ 1 ] of cargo.