WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace says that its Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander mission has ended as expected, completing all its objectives. Operations of Blue Ghost 1 ended with a final transmission around 7:15 p.m. Eastern March 16, after 346 hours — nearly 14 and a half days — of operations in sunlight and an additional …
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Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis’ “Internet of Things” constellation tonight (March 17). An Electron vehicle carrying five of Kinéis’ “Internet of Things” spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand site today at 9:31 p.m. EDT (0131 GMT and 2:31 p.m. local New Zealand time on March 18). …
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A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope’s enormous LSST Camera — the last optical component required before the last phase of testing can begin. The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is the …
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading back to Earth after an unexpectedly long and eventful space mission, and you can watch their homecoming live. Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov departed the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule “Freedom” early Tuesday morning (March 18), setting …
