WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — NASA will launch a rocket to test its next generation of spacecraft heat shields early Monday from its Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) will be launched on a Black Brant XI sounding rocket and land about 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras, NC Continue reading
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SpaceX launch aborted; next attempt Tuesday | Bad Astronomy
The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 this morning was aborted at literally the last second the sensors detected too high a pressure in a combustion chamber in one of the engines. Apparently this didnt put the rocket in any danger, but it was outside the limits for an allowable launch so the computer shut things down. Continue reading