October 14th 2015 PDT
October 14, 2015 RELEASE 15-209*NASA Awards Venture Class Launch Services Contracts for CubeSat Satellites* NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded multiple Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) contracts to provide small satellites (SmallSats) -- also called CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites -- access to low-Earth orbit. The three companies selected to provide these new commercial launch capabilities, and the value of their firm fixed-price contracts, are: [*]Firefly Space Systems Inc. of Ce ...Continue Reading
October 14th 2015 PDT
October 14, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-149*Media Accreditation Open for Orbital ATK Mission to Resupply Space Station* Artist's concept of Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft in orbit. */Credits: Orbital ATK/* NASA has opened media accreditation for the fourth commercial resupply services launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft filled with cargo for the International Space Station. The launch is currently targeted for Thursday, Dec. 3 during a 30-minute window that opens at approximately 6 p.m. EST. The Cygnus ...Continue Reading
October 14th 2015 PDT
October 13, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M27-15*Kennedy Space Center Invites Media to Business Opportunities Expo 25th Anniversary* Media are invited to attend NASA's Kennedy Space Center Business Opportunities Expo at 8:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 20. The event, now in its 25th year, will feature 150 government and commercial business exhibitors at Terminal 10 in Port Canaveral, Florida. The expo runs until 3 p.m. Exhibitors will include a variety of industries offering diverse products and services. Representatives fro ...Continue Reading
October 13th 2015 PDT
October 13, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M27-15*Kennedy Space Center Invites Media to Business Opportunities Expo 25th Anniversary* Media are invited to attend NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Business Opportunities Expo at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 20. The event, now in its 25th year, will feature 150 government and commercial business exhibitors at Terminal 10 in Port Canaveral, Florida. The expo runs until 3 p.m. Exhibitors will include a variety of industries offering diverse products and services. Representatives fro ...Continue Reading
October 13th 2015 PDT
October 13, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M26-15*NASA Innovation Expo Highlights Kennedy Technology Advances on Journey to Mars* Technological innovations underway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are driving the advances needed to send humans farther into the solar system than ever before, including the ambitious journey to Mars. Beginning on Friday, Oct. 16, Kennedy and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will showcase some of these key innovations in the fourth annual Innovation Expo. The theme of this y ...Continue Reading
October 7th 2015 PDT
October 07, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-150*NASA to Announce Selections for Small Satellite Launch Contract* The FIREBIRD-II CubeSat. */Credits: Montana State University / University of New Hampshire/* NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to announce the outcome of the Venture Class Launch Service (VCLS) competition. The news conference will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. The participants are: [*]Garrett Skr ...Continue Reading
September 3rd 2015 PDT
September 03, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-15*Media Invited to View Kennedy’s 9/11 Tribute Ceremony* A section of I-beam that once strengthened the World Trade Center in New York has made its way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will serve as a memorial to the 343 fire/rescue personnel who gave their lives to save others on Sept. 11, 2001. */Credits: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis /* Media are invited to attend an event memorializing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center at 10 a.m. ...Continue Reading
September 2nd 2015 PDT
September 02, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-133*NASA TV to Air Grand Opening of Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will participate in the grand opening of The Boeing Company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Sept. 4. The event will air live on NASA Television beginning at 10 a.m. EDT. Boeing, one of two companies under contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to restore America’s ability to launch cr ...Continue Reading
September 2nd 2015 PDT
September 02, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-132*Three Space Station Crews to Answer Media Questions from Orbit* *//* Nine International Space Station crew members will discuss their mission with reporters from around the world during a joint crew news conference to air live on NASA Television at 10:10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 8. This will be the first time since November 2013 that nine crew members are aboard the station simultaneously. The nine crew members represent five different space agencies: [*]NASA’s Scott ...Continue Reading
August 12th 2015 PDT
August 12, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M22-15*Media Invited to View NASA’s Modified Mobile Launcher for Space Launch System* A sunrise casts a golden glow on NASA's Mobile Launcher in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy is overseeing upgrades and modifications to the Mobile Launcher so it can carry the agency's Space Launch System and Orion Spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B. */Credits: NASA/Ben Smegelsky /* Media are invit ...Continue Reading
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