SpaceX wasn’t grounded for long. The company launched 23 of its Starlink broadband satellites from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday (July 27) at 1:45 a.m. EDT (0545 GMT). It was SpaceX‘s first liftoff since July 11, when a Falcon 9 suffered an upper-stage failure that led to …
SpaceX Bounces Back From Falcon 9 Failure With Successful Starlink Launch. Read More »
Excitement about the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics extends out into space. The six NASA astronauts currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) held their own mini-Olympics to mark the start of the games, which are being held in Paris and other sites around France. We get a glimpse at the spaceflyers’ lighthearted …
NASA Astronauts Hold Their Own Summer Olympics In Space. Read More »
We’ll all have to wait a bit longer to see the first-ever private spacewalk. SpaceX is now targeting mid- to late August for the launch of Polaris Dawn, a mission funded by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. The upcoming flight, which will employ SpaceX‘s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, had been slated to lift …
SpaceX’s Historic Polaris Dawn Astronaut Mission Delayed Until Mid-August. Read More »
The next space station astronaut crew may be the last to splash down in the ocean nearby the U.S. east coast. The Crew Dragon Crew-9 mission with astronauts is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than Aug. 18, perhaps becoming the final NASA-led ISS mission to arrive in the Atlantic Ocean …
