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The Wed March 23 launch window is 11:50 AM - 12:20 AM MDT (17:50 - 18:20 UT) Mar 23, 9:00 AM MDT: Experiment sections are ready for flight. Final arming of the launch vehicles have begun. Weather report is still Green for launch. Mar 23, 8:10 AM MDT: Horizontal test completed. Starting...

Update on EVE sounding rocket from Tom Woods: Based on continued unacceptable (red) wind conditions for Tuesday March 22 and very good weather conditions forecasted for Wednesday, the launch for NASA 36.275 is now scheduled for Wednesday March 23. That is, we have scrubbed plans to attempt...

William Harwood CNET March 5, 2011 NASA’s Glory atmospheric research mission satellite crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean early today after a protective nose cone fairing failed to separate during launch aboard an Orbital Sciences Corp. Taurus XL rocket. The $424 million failure was...

The EVE calibration payload is ready to go, but what will the weather do? NASA sounding rocket 36.275 is scheduled to launch today (February 23, 2011) from the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). The launch window is from 11:20-11:50 MST, but the forecast as of yesterday afternoon indicated...

NASA has delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery's final flight yet again in order to allow more time repair the spacecraft's beleaguered fuel tank, the space agency announced late Thursday (Jan. 6). The decision came after a meeting of top space shuttle program managers earlier in the...

25 mins ago WASHINGTON– NASA said it had again postponed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, already pushed back to February, to an undetermined date to allow more time for repairs. "The decision was made today to allow the teams additional time and delay the next launch opportunity out...

BANGALORE - A team that analyzed data from the failed launch of India's Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) has found the primary cause of the Dec. 25 mishap was the "untimely and inadvertent snapping" of a group of 10 connectors located at the bottom of the rocket's Russian supplied...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has formally reprimanded the chief of his country's national space agency and fired two other high-ranking space officials over the loss of three state-of-the-art navigation satellites in a botched rocket launch earlier this month. The decision, announced by...

Outstanding teamwork was the theme of the Ares I-X postlaunch news conference as the successful flight test was discussed. "I can't say enough about this team," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "They've...

Japan Prepared To Shoot Down N Korea Missile Japan Prepared To Shoot Down N Korea Missile Sky News Friday, March 13, 2009 With the launch date of North Korea’s long-range missile getting ever closer, Japan has warned it is prepared to shoot down the rocket to protect its territory. North...