Day: January 17, 2025

The seventh test flight of SpaceX’s Starship had some serious highs and lows. The company launched its Starship megarocket for the seventh time ever today (Jan. 16), sending the 403.5-foot-tall (123 meters) reusable vehicle aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas at 5:37 p.m. EST (2237 GMT; 4:37 p.m. local time). One of the …

SpaceX Watches Super Heavy Booster On Starship Flight 7 Test But Loses Upper Stage. Read More »

India has become the fourth country in the world to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space following the US, Russia and China, as two small spacecraft completed the docking maneuver in low-Earth orbit on Thursday, which the Indian space agency described as “a historic moment” for the nation. The successful SpaDeX mission “is a …

India Becomes 4th Country To Achieve Unmanned Space Docking. Read More »

An X-ray observatory used to study neutron stars is “back in the black” and a cosmic ray detector is ready for possible future upgrades after two astronauts completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). Nick Hague worked to repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, mounted to the outside of the …

Astronauts Repair Black Hole Observatory, Inspect Cosmic Ray Detector On ISS Spacewalk. Read More »