The International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU-OAD) will support 13 global projects in 2025, selected to receive a total of EUR 69,500. Two ongoing multi-year projects have received EUR 21,000 for their second and third year of funding. This represents a 42.48% decrease from last year’s allocation of EUR 113,011 that funded …
IAU-OAD to Fund 13 Astronomy-for-Development Projects in 2025. Read More »
NASA’s second spacewalk of 2025 is set to begin today, with NASA’s Starliner astronauts tasked with retrieving hardware from the exterior of the space station. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin the station’s 274th spacewalk, U.S. EVA 92 early Jan. 30, at approximately 8:00 a.m. EST (1300 GMT). A livestream …
SpaceX has launched the next-generation Spanish communications satellite Wednesday night (Jan. 29), soaring the spacecraft into a geostationary transfer orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpainSat Next Generation 1 (SpainSat NG-1), a communications satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Hisdesat communications, lifted off from Pad 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, in Florida …
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Next-gen SpainSat NG-1 Satellite Into Orbit. Read More »
India just launched its first mission of 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on schedule today at 7:53 p.m. EST (0053 GMT and 6:23 a.m. local time on Jan. 29). It was the 100th launch overall from the storied spaceport, which lies …
India Launches Navigation Satellite Into Orbit On Nation’s 1st Mission of 2025. Read More »
Blue Origin will have to wait a bit longer to get its first-ever moon-gravity mission off the ground. The company, which was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, had planned to launch its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for the 29th time (Jan. 28) from its West Texas launch site. But two different issues conspired to prevent …
Boom Supersonic made history (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic’s chief test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg took off in the company’s XB-1 jet from the storied Mojave Air & Space Port in California this morning under mostly clear skies. Some 11.5 minutes into the flight …
Boom Supersonic XB-1 Jet Breaks Sound Barrier On Historic Test Flight. Read More »
