December 12, 2024

On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface at a whopping 430,000 mph (690,000 kph), breaking its own records for speed and closest approach to our star. The spacecraft, roughly the size of a small car, completed its final swing past Venus last […]

Rocket Lab’s pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed. The mission in question lifted off on Nov. 24 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Virginia’s Wallops Island. It employed HASTE, the suborbital variant of Rocket Lab‘s workhorse Electron launcher. Less than 22 hours later, an