Day: April 26, 2024

Two Russian cosmonauts completed a spacewalk at the International Space Station and more than completed all their tasks, including the radar deployment they started last year. Expedition 71 crew members Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub successfully deployed and locked the fourth of four panels for a synthetic radar communications system on Russia’s Nauka multifunction laboratory …

Russian Cosmonauts Make Quick Work Of Space Station Spacewalk. Read More »

The first Starliner crew is ready to fly on May 6, the team told reporters upon arriving at the launch site. This will mark the spacecraft’s debut mission with humans on board. The two NASA astronauts to fly aboard Boeing Starliner, commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center …

NASA Astronauts Fly to Launch Site For 1st Crewed Boeing Starliner Mission To ISS On May 6. Read More »

While examining a nearby supernova with NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, an effort meant to discover how these stellar explosions ignite charged particles called cosmic rays, scientists have uncovered a bigger mystery. The team found the supernova, designated SN 2023ixf, to be completely lacking the gamma-ray emissions that should be present when cosmic ray particles …

NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope Finds a Strange Supernova With Missing Gamma Rays. Read More »

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert today (April 25) at 8:59 a.m. EDT (1259 GMT or 8:59 p.m. Beijing Time). The rocket carried the Shenzhou 18 spacecraft and its three-person crew into orbit. The Shenzhou spacecraft separated from its launch vehicle 10 minutes into …

China Launches 3 Astronauts To Tiangong Space Station On Shenzhou 18 Mission. Read More »