Northrop Grumman Cargo Launch to the Space Station from NASA Wallops

Watch live as Northrop Grumman launches its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.  Liftoff is targeted for 12:36 p.m. EST from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The “S.S. Katherine Johnson” Cygnus spacecraft is named after Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician whose>>>

Continue reading

How Cold War Shaped The World’s First Spaceport | Baikonur Cosmodrome | Spark

Cosmodrome is the story of Russia’s "crown jewels": the finest rocket engines in the world, built under conditions of absolute secrecy with the aim of landing a man on the moon. It tells how, at the height of Cold War rivalry, the engineers of the Soviet Union’s elite Design Bureau>>>

Continue reading

The Chimney Chute Rocket Boost Challenge | Rocket Around the Xmas Tree

Stream Full Episodes of Rocket Around the Xmas Tree: https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/rocket-around-the-xmas-tree Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Follow Us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@Discovery We’re on Instagram! https://instagram.com/Discovery Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discovery Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Discovery Original Author: Produced by Discovery and published on 25/12/2020

Continue reading

How Does SpaceX Make Money?

As side hustles go, Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is really quite something. Entirely separate from the humdrum day job at Tesla, where his only real challenge is weaning humanity off the internal combustion engine, Musk’s multi-billion dollar SpaceX operation sets itself no less a target than bringing down the>>>

Continue reading

Watch SpaceX launch its Falcon 9 Rocket from Vandenberg AFB in California!

SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California. The rocket will be carrying the Sentinel-6A satellite. The joint NASA/ESA satellite will collect data on sea level changes and atmospheric conditions to improve weather forecasts and climate models. Want to learn more about>>>

Continue reading

Liftoff of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Mission

At 7:27 p.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon "Resilience" spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Aboard are astronauts Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of JAXA (Japan>>>

Continue reading

Watch SpaceX Launch NASA and JAXA Astronauts to the ISS!

A SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket will lift off from LC-39A, at the Kennedy Space Center, carrying three NASA astronauts and one JAXA astronaut to the ISS. This mission, Crew-1 (USCV-1), will mark SpaceX’s first operational crewed launch as part of the Commercial Crew Program. Crew-1, or USCV-1, will>>>

Continue reading

How Stephenson’s Rocket Became The First Ever Steam Engine | Strange Trains | Spark

From the Rocket to the Docklands Light Railway, British locomotives have always been incredibly varied in size, shape and function. This all-action program takes a look at some of the more unusual designs and reveals the rich diversity of these strange yet magnificent machines. Subscribe to Spark for more amazing>>>

Continue reading

Watch SpaceX launch a next gen GPS satellite!

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the GPS Block III SV04 satellite for the US Space Force. SV04 is part of the United States Space Force’s next generation GPS constellation. It is launching from Space Launch Complex-40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). This launch will mark>>>

Continue reading