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Andoya Spaceport. Credit: Andoya Spaceport Ibadan, August 23, 2024. – Andøya Spaceport has been granted a launch site operator licence by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, marking another milestone for the spaceport towards the first satellite launch from Norwegian soil. This demonstrates the important steps taken by Norway in the new space
114 In total, five flights are planned around the world this week. The most notable is the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Polaris Dawn mission. A modified Crew Dragon capsule will carry four astronauts into the highest orbit flown by a crewed mission since the Gemini missions. In addition to the launch
The sky may look clear from our perspective, but just out of sight, there is a junkyard in our… low earth orbit (LEO), a region of space relatively close to the surface of our planet. There are approximately 60,363 tracked objects in orbit, the vast majority of which are space debris. That number doesn’t even
Just below the tail of mighty Scorpius and wedged firmly between Telescopium and Norma lies the constellation of Ara, the Altar. With a declination of -45° to -67°, it's an easy target for southern hemisphere observers, but not so easy for those north of the equator: you have to be at fairly low northern latitudes
A Falcon 9 rocket flies over Florida on the Starlink 10-5 mission. NASA and SpaceX decided to use the first launch of the B1085 rocket on this Starlink flight instead of using it first on the Crew-9 mission due to a “water intrusion” issue that occurred during transport from Texas to Florida. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight
Mars probably had liquid water on its surface Billions of years ago, but Mars' water disappeared over time, leaving the planet cold and dry. Where did Mars' water go? Could there be water beneath the surface of Mars now? New research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, based on data from NASA's InSight lander, suggests
Three satellites built by the Space Flight Laboratory were launched on Friday, August 16 on the SpaceX Transporter-11 rideshare mission. The satellites were built for Hawkeye 360's Cluster 10 mission. With this launch, the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has developed 30 radio frequency geolocation microsatellites for Hawkeye 360. Hawkeye 360 announced shortly After deployment, they
Credit: NASA Ibadan, August 19, 2024. – The Transporter-11 mission has launched the NASA-designed Tanager-1 satellite for the Carbon Mapper Coalition. Tanager-1 carries NASA's greenhouse gas monitoring instrument, an imaging spectrometer that will provide useful data to help reduce emissions that contribute to global warming. The satellite will use imaging spectrometer technology to measure methane
From director James Gunn Superman (formerly titled Superman: Legacy), the film starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, Rachel Brosnahan as his reporter girlfriend Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as the evil ultra-genius Lex Luthor, is nearing completion of a production that began last February in anticipation of a high-profile release in the summer
Fully integrated EscaPADE satellites sit inside a clean room at Rocket Lab's Space Systems Group facility in Long Beach, California. Image: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab is gearing up for its first mission to another planet. In the fall, two of its spacecraft will hop aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket to begin the 11-month
