NASA awards SpaceX contract for space station deorbit vehicle
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 22:14Why NASA astronauts are delayed at the space station after Boeing Starliner launch
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 18:10When two veteran NASA astronauts blasted off on a test drive of Boeing's new capsule, they expected to head home from the International Space Station in a week or so.
It's now three weeks and counting for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams as NASA and Boeing troubleshoot equipment problems that popped up on the way there.
Three potential landing dates were called off and their flight home is now on hold.
This week, Boeing said the Starliner capsule's problems aren't a concern for the return trip and "the astronauts are not stranded.
ULA changes payloads for second Vulcan launch
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:17China’s ‘worst-case thinking’ could spark space crisis, study finds
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 16:09Urban Sky wins NASA award to develop balloon-borne fire sensors
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 14:54The space bricks have landed
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 14:16ESA scientists have been exploring how a future moon base might be built from materials on the lunar surface. Inspired by LEGO building, they have used dust from a meteorite to 3D-print "space bricks" to test the idea. ESA's space bricks are on display in selected LEGO Stores from 20 June to 20 September, helping to inspire the next generation of space engineers.
The idea seems simple. Rather than take building materials all the way to the moon, we could use what is already there to construct a moon base. The surface of the moon is covered with a layer of rock and mineral fragments known as lunar regolith.
Starfish Space to extend Intelsat satellite life in first commercial mission
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 14:10Wyvern to use Loft Orbital satellites for hyperspectral observations
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 14:04The Young Professional Satellite - Dream Big, Start Small (episode 1)
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 13:00In this first episode of our docu-series, we embark on the exciting journey of the YPSat (Young Professional Satellite), a satellite flying on-board the inaugural flight of Ariane 6, Europe’s new heavy launcher. Two years ago, a team of Young Professionals at ESA, with diverse backgrounds, nationalities and expertise, have come together around one passion and with one ambition; design, manufacture and send their own satellite to space.
Starting with some trivial ideas, the team matured their mission objectives and won the approval and support of ESA management to kick start the project. YPSat will be ‘the witness’
Space Mining doesn’t need more international regulation from the U.N.
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 12:00Powerhouse hurricane watchdog satellite launches aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 10:50The last of a series of hurricane-hunting satellites got its most powerful ride ever to space June 25 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
The rocket that is essentially three Falcon 9's strapped together blasted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A at 5:26 p.m. Eastern time carrying the 11,000-pound GOES-U satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, partnered with NASA.
Weather worries proved unfounded for the launch site as teams threaded the needle of afternoon thunderstorms to take flight amid blue skies to the cheers of gathered crowds.
About eight minutes after liftoff—with a kettle of vultures taking flight to get out of the way—two of the three boosters for Falcon Heavy made a recovery touchdown back at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Landing Zones 1 and 2. Their supersonic return knocked out a pair of double sonic booms that set off car alarms and struck a unique whistling reverb sound off the massive Vehicle Assembly Building.
The center core booster will crash into the Atlantic with no recovery planned.
Expending the center core is needed to send GOES-U to a transfer orbit that will take it to an ultimate destination 22,000 miles away from Earth.
Collins Aerospace pulls back from NASA spacesuit contract
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 10:26A new horizon for the Kuiper Belt: Subaru telescope's wide-field observations
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 10:16Marsquakes could help detect underground water on Mars
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 09:52If liquid water exists on Mars today, it might be too deep underground for traditional detection methods used on Earth. However, a new approach involving marsquakes could offer a solution, according to Penn State scientists. When quakes pass through deep aquifers, they generate electromagnetic signals. Researchers detailed in the journal JGR Planets how these signals, if also present on Ma