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B1062 sits safely on the deck of the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS). With 21 drone ship landings and one return to solid ground, it is now SpaceX’s record-setting frequent flyer. Photo credit: SpaceX Adding another record to an already record-setting year, SpaceX took the slack from an unusually quiet mid-month to conclude the final
Return to article list The infrared telescope revealed a cluster of protostellar flows in the star-forming region, shedding new light on star formation. JWST found a cluster of aligned protostar outflows, visible at top left, in the Serpens Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, K. Pontoppidan (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and J. Green (Space Telescope Science
WASHINGTON – A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off June 25 carrying the latest spacecraft in a series of geostationary weather satellites that also features several firsts. The Falcon Heavy lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A at 5:26 p.m. Eastern Time, 10 minutes into a two-hour window, as launch directors encountered favorable
The same commercial capabilities that enable new science on the Moon, such as the LuSEE-Night radio astronomy experiment, could also jeopardize that research. (credit: NASA/Firefly Aerospace) by Martin ElvisMonday, June 17, 2024 The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them they have crashed either Tipped over. With all the excitement
After helium leaks and propellant problems with Boeing's Starliner capsule, NASA has pushed back the return date from the International Space Station. On Friday, the agency announced that they no longer had a planned return date. Instead, they will continue testing the capsule, trying to understand its problems and seeing if they can fix it.
Return to article list The renewed energy flowing from an active galaxy provides astronomers with a high-energy mystery to explore in detail at multiple wavelengths. This artist's impression shows two stages in the formation of a disk of gas and dust around the enormous black hole at the center of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728. The core
A Falcon 9 rocket is ready to support the Starlink 7-9 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The mission also includes the first six satellites that will be used for the company's direct-to-cell service. Image: SpaceX SpaceX expects to complete another double launch day with a West Coast launch of 20 Starlink V2 Mini satellites,
WASHINGTON – Northrop Grumman announced June 21 that it has delivered two satellites to Space Norway for the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) to provide Internet connectivity in the challenging North Polar region. The satellites, ordered in 2019They will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in mid-July.
USSF-124 ascends uphill at 5:30 pm EST on Valentine's Day, marking the first flight of B1078 in 2024. Photo credit: Jeff Seibert/AmericaSpace SpaceX is targeting a pair of Falcon 9 launches from opposite US coasts just ten hours apart on Sunday, as it plans to bring the total number of Starlink internet communications satellites put
Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, Minister of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia, signs the Artemis Accords on June 12 as (from left) Acting Undersecretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and International Scientific and Environmental Affairs Jennifer Littlejohn, Administrator of the NASA Bill Nelson, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the United
