The world’s most powerful rocket is nearing its next test flight. The seventh launch of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket is expected within the next month or so. After a recent static fire of the vehicle’s massive Super Heavy first-stage booster, the company has prepped the Starship upper stage for testing of its own. “Starship ready for …
SpaceX Rolls 7th Starship Spacecraft Out For Testing Ahead Of Next Launch. Read More »
SpaceX scrubbed the planned launch of the mysterious RRT-1 mission from Florida’s Space Coast on Friday (Dec. 13)_ due to high winds. A Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday at 8:04 p.m. EDT (0104 GMT on Dec. 14), kicking off a mission that SpaceX …
SpaceX Scrubs Launch Of Mysterious RRT-1 Mission Due To High Winds. Read More »
The final full moon of 2024 lights the skies this weekend to welcome in the holiday season. December’s full Cold Moon will rise overnight on Saturday (Dec. 14) and remain in the sky all night until setting with the sunrise on Sunday (Dec. 15). The full moon will rise in the Taurus constellation, just along …
Sonke Telecommunications has achieved a global milestone by introducing a world-first Layer 2 solution integrated into its OneWeb (Eutelsat) satellite connectivity offering. This breakthrough, powered by Sonke’s advanced core network fabric, enables rapid adoption of emerging technologies and customisable connectivity solutions. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology deployment brings high-speed, low-latency internet to businesses and …
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India continues to perfect hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program. L scenarios. The Gaast week, the nation recovered a mock Gaganyaan crew module onto a ship’s well deck, which opens to the sea and can be flooded with water so that the module can be hoisted post-splashdown and towed inside. The …
India Practices Pulling Its Gaganyaan Astronaut Capsule Out Of The Sea. Read More »
Fifty nations have now joined NASA’s effort to establish peaceful and cooperative international space exploration. On Wednesday (Dec. 11), Panama and Austria signed NASA’s Artemis Accords, becoming the 49th and 50th nations to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity, according to a statement from NASA. “NASA welcomes Panama and Austria to …
Panama, Austria Sign Artemis Accords, Bringing Tally To 50 Nations. Read More »
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 …
Rocket Lab’s Secretive Launch Last Month Was A Hypersonic Test For The US Military. Read More »
Emily Calandrelli made history on Nov. 22, 2024, when she became the 100th woman to go to space. But thanks to “small men on the internet,” the monumental milestone was marred by misogyny, Calandrelli told Live Science. “This is something that I had been working towards for two decades,” the astronaut, MIT engineer, bestselling author, …
SpaceX is gearing up for the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket, which could take place in just a month or so. The company conducted a static-fire test with Flight 7’s Super Heavy first-stage booster today (Dec. 9), briefly igniting its 33 Raptor engines at a pad at SpaceX‘s Starbase facility in South Texas. …
SpaceX Test-Fires Super Heavy Booster For 7th Starship Launch. Read More »
