At 00:35 CEST today (18:35 local time on 1 April), NASA's Space Launch System rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on Artemis II. At the heart of the mission is ESA's European Service Module, which powers, propels and sustains the Orion spacecraft and its crew on their journey around the Moon and safely back to Earth.

Artemis II launched on 2 April at 00:35 CEST, (18:35 local time on 1 April), sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. At the heart of the mission is ESA's European Service Module, which powers, propels and sustains the Orion spacecraft and its crew on their journey around the Moon and safely back to Earth.

In the hours after launch, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion capsule will circle Earth in what amounts to a holding pattern 200 miles up, waiting for a single engine burn that will either send them to the Moon or end the mission early. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will sit inside […]

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SpaceX makes $15 billion a year selling rocket launches and satellite internet. Wall Street wants to price it at $1.75 trillion. That is a price-to-revenue multiple exceeding 100x — roughly seven times what investors pay for the fastest-growing mega-cap tech companies on Earth. The gap between those two numbers is not a rounding error. It […]

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‘Extreme but not exotic,’ – a glimpse at Comet 3I/ATLAS through the eyes of the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice).