Day: April 5, 2024

In October 2023, a trio of sounding rockets traveled more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) into the ionosphere before returning safely back to the Earth‘s surface. Now, they’re getting ready for their second flight. NASA’s Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission — named for the Egyptian god of darkness and enemy of the sun …

NASA Will Launch Rockets Into The Total Solar Eclipse On April 8. Read More »

SpaceX is continuing to gear up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket. On Thursday (April 4), SpaceX announced via X that it has moved a Starship first stage, a 33-engine booster called Super Heavy, to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas. That post also shared two photos of …

SpaceX Moves Super Heavy Booster To Pad Ahead Of 4th Starship Flight. Read More »

A new experiment designed to search the cosmos for its most mysterious “stuff,” dark matter, has delivered its first results. While the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) developed by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab hasn’t turned up dark matter particles just yet, the new results place a …

Ambitious New Dark Matter-Hunting Experiment Delivers 1st Results. Read More »

China is making progress on two new pads for commercial space launches from the island of Hainan. Launch Pad Number 1 at Hainan International Commercial Space Launch Center was completed late last year, while progress on a second pad has entered the equipment-installation phase and will be completed by the end of May. The first …

China Putting Finishing Touches On Seaside Spaceport For Commercial Launches. Read More »

We now know who will be on board for Blue Origin’s first crewed spaceflight since August 2022. Today (April 4), Jeff Bezos‘ company announced the six crewmembers for the NS-25 space tourism mission, which will lift off from Blue Origin‘s West Texas site in the relatively near future. (The target date has not yet been …

Blue Origin Will Launch Ed Dwight, The 1st-Ever Black Astronaut Candidate, To Space On Next New Shepard Rocket Flight. Read More »