Kennedy Space Center

The 1998 Florida Firestorm and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

East central Florida’s natural environment and climate have shaped, and delayed, Kennedy Space Center launch operations since the 1960s.

Posted June 26, 2024

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

Earth Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Kennedy Space Center

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

NASA, SpaceX Launch NOAA’s Latest Weather Satellite

NASA successfully launched the fourth and final satellite in a series of advanced weather satellites for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) at 5:26 p.m. EDT Tuesday.

Posted June 26, 2024

Virtual Guest Program

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of NOAA GOES-U Launch

NASA invites the public to participate in virtual activities and events leading up to the launch of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U) mission. NASA is targeting a two-hour window opening at 5:16 p.m.

Posted June 21, 2024

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

NASA Centers & Facilities

Small Satellite Missions

NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch

Eight CubeSats that are part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative have been integrated into Firefly Aerospace’s deployment hardware and are ready to be encapsulated into the payload fairing of Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The launch, named “Noise of Summer,” will lift off early this summer from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]

Posted June 20, 2024

NASA Centers & Facilities

Apollo

General

Kennedy Space Center

NASA History

NASA Preserves Its Past at Kennedy While Building Future of Space

Current and former employees of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida gathered recently to celebrate the installation of a Florida Historical Marker cast in bronze at the location of the spaceport’s old headquarters building. The first of its kind inside the center’s secure area, the marker is the latest example of the center’s commitment to […]

Posted June 20, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Headquarters

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Awards Logistic Services, Management Contract

NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base period and up to five options with a potential contract value of approximately $265 million if all options are exercised.

Posted June 18, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

Launch Services Program

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) mission. The two-hour launch window opens at 5:16 p.m.

Posted June 18, 2024

Artemis 2

Artemis

Humans in Space

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

Space Launch System (SLS)

NASA Invites Media to See Artemis II Moon Rocket Elements at Kennedy

Media are invited in late July to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see progress on the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket as preparations continue for the Artemis II test flight around the Moon. Participants joining the multi-day events will see the arrival and unloading of the 212-foot-tall SLS core stage at […]

Posted June 14, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

Transportation Officer Melissa Coleman

“Don’t let the NASA emblem scare you away. “I was very intimidated by it because it was a childhood dream [to make it to NASA]. I saw a picture of me at Kennedy Space [Center’s] visitor center the last time I went home. I must have been five years old. I always used to tell […]

Posted June 14, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

What Are You Looking At?

A Florida redbelly turtle looks warily at the camera in this photo from Feb. 29, 2000. This image was captured on the grounds of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge contains 92,000 acres that are a habitat for more than 330 species […]

Posted June 7, 2024