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Three new crew members are set to dock to the International Space Station Saturday at 5:01 p.m. EST. Live coverage of the docking and arrival will begin at 4:15 p.m. on NASA Television and the agency’s website. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) launched in …

Liquid oxygen is flowing into the first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The engine, seen above, will combine the oxygen with refined kerosene to generate about 860,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff. This Atlas V is equipped with four solid-fueled boosters that will provide extra thrust to lift the rocket and …

Supercold liquid oxygen is flowing into the tank of the Centaur upper stage for today's launch. The Centaur's single RL10 engine, built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, burns a combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to generate thrust. The Centaur will perform three burns today to place NOAA's GOES-R satellite into a transfer orbit that will …

The transfer lines to the Centaur's liquid oxygen tanks have begun chilling down before the supercold propellant is pumped into the tanks for launch. The tanking will begin in a few minutes. Later, the same process will be used to load liquid oxygen into the Atlas V's first stage. After that, the liquid hydrogen for …

The countdown has resumed as scheduled for the GOES-R launch today. Engineers are beginning the preparations to load cryogenic propellants into the Atlas V rocket.

The launch team completed its polls confirming they are reading to begin loading supercold propellants – known as cryogenics – into the Atlas V rocket and its Centaur upper stage. The countdown is in a planned hold at T-2 hours, but everything is on schedule for liftoff at 5:42 p.m. EST. The launch window extends …

With less than three hours before the liftoff of the Atlas V rocket carrying the GOES-R satellite into orbit, the launch teams at Cape Canaveral, Florida, are working through a detailed timeline of tasks and checks to make everything goes smoothly. Today's weather forecast improved to a 100 percent chance of acceptable conditions for launch. …

Good afternoon from Florida's Space Coast! It is launch day for NOAA's GOES-R satellite, the most sophisticated meteorological spacecraft of its kind, and the launch teams are proceeding toward an on-time liftoff at 5:42 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the GOES-R satellite into geostationary …

Preparation for Cygnus Unberth and Release: The crew completed configuring the Cygnus and the Node 1 vestibule in preparation for Cygnus departure on Monday, November 21st. Today’s task included removing Intermodule Ventilation and Power/Data Jumpers, installing the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) Center Disk Cover and four CBM Controller Panel Assemblies (CPAs) onto an Active CBM …

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and its GOES-R payload were moved to the pad today as preparations continue for Saturday's launch from Space Launch Complex 41. The Atlas V is in its 541 configuration, which means it has the 5-meter-diameter payload fairing, four solid-fueled boosters and the Centaur upper stage is equipped with …