Boeing’s Starliner capsule is back at the launch pad. Starliner and its rocket ride, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V, rolled out to the pad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (May 30) ahead of a planned Saturday (June 1) liftoff. That launch, at 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT), will kick off […]
Boeing’s Starliner Rolls Out To Pad For June 1 Astronaut Launch. Read More »
Spaceflight doesn’t typically come to mind when one thinks of North Carolina’s serene, verdant mountains. It’s true that, in the early 1960s, NASA built the (now-defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and Apollo programs. And, of course,
Space Debris From SpaceX Dragon Capsule Crashed In The North Carolina Mountains. Read More »
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the star of the show in the James Webb Space Telescope‘s latest cosmic portrait. Located 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, NGC 4449 has much in common with our very own Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.
James Webb Space Telescope Finds A Dusty Skeleton In This Starburst Galaxy’s Closet. Read More »
Key Highlights Botswana Presidency has approved Starlink’s operations in the country Starlink given two-week deadline to finalise its application process Earlier this year, the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) announced that importing, using, or selling Starlink kits or services was illegal, with violators facing legal consequences. However, in a recent development, the Botswana Presidency announced
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A Russian cargo ship will launched toward the International Space Station early Thursday morning (May 30). The robotic Progress 88 freighter lifted off atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 5:43 a.m. EDT (0943 GMT; 2:43 p.m. local time at Baikonur). Progress 88 is packed with about 3
Russian Cargo Ship Launches Toward The ISS Early Thursday Morning. Read More »
A Chinese commercial launch company sent four satellites into orbit on Wednesday (May 29) with the second sea launch of the Ceres-1 solid rocket. The Ceres-1 lifted off Wednesday at 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 GMT; 4:12 p.m. Beijing time) from a sea platform off the coast of China’s eastern province of Shandong. Aboard were the
Watch Chinese Company Launch 4 Satellites To Orbit From Ship At Sea. Read More »
Newly emerged sunspot region AR3697 is already making its presence known, firing off another powerful X-class solar flare as it creeps around from behind the sun’s southeastern limb. The solar flare eruption peaked around 10:35 a.m. EDT (1435 GMT), causing shortwave radio blackouts across Western Europe and the Eastern United States. But this isn’t the first
Massive Sunspot Responsible For May’s Epic Auroras Unleashes Major X-class Solar Flare. Read More »
The first Boeing Starliner astronauts are back at the launch site. NASA Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (May 28) ahead of their expected liftoff of Boeing Starliner on Saturday (June 1). NASA will hold a delta flight readiness review later
Boeing Starliner Astronauts Arrive At Launch Site For 1st Flight Test On June 1. Read More »
Scientists may have learned the history of the tiny contact-binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, which was the first cosmic stop for NASA’s Lucy spacecraft. That moonlet may have spun off its larger parent asteroid when Dinkinesh was sent twirling through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. Having launched in 2021, the Lucy mission is
Asteroid ‘Dinky,’ Visited By NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft, Birthed Its Own Moon. Read More »
Using the Euclid space telescope, scientists have discovered a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars drifting through a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the cosmos. These orphan stars, ripped free from their own galaxies, are filling the space between the galaxies of the Perseus cluster with ghostly blue light.
Euclid Space Telescope Finds 1.5 Trillion Orphan Stars Wandering The Perseus Cluster. Read More »
