NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is scheduled to launch Friday at 11:27 p.m. EST from Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) about 125 miles from Raleigh on Virginia’s eastern ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (GY) company, announced today that its 100-lbf High Performance Apogee Thruster (HiPAT(TM)) bipropellant engine, integrated into a propulsion system built by Space ...

At 11:27 p.m. Friday night, a five-stage Minotaur V rocket carrying LADEE lifted off from the NASA flight facility on Wallops Island, Va. Before its trip to our lunar neighbor, it put on quite a show ...

This screengrab shows NASA's LADEE moon mission roaring off the pad in a blaze of flame on the night of Sept. 6, 2013. [Read the Full Story Here] A computer screen shows the trajectory of NASA's LADEE ...

This infrared image shows a laser beam signal from NASA's LADEE moon probe as seen in infrared by the European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain on Oct. 26, 2013. [Read the Full ...

NASA's newest robotic explorer ran into equipment trouble early this morning, and while NASA assured everyone that the lunar probe was safe and on a perfect track for the moon, officials acknowledged ...