SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 6), the company’s 46th orbital mission of the year already. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 2:14 p.m. EDT (1814 GMT), carrying 23 Starlink craft toward low Earth orbit (LEO). The Falcon 9’s first stage […]
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In a news report released by the United Nations African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English (UN-ARCSSTEE), Professor Babatunde Rabiu, the Director of UN-ARCSSTEE, disclosed that Nigeria had acquired the first cosmic ray muon detector in Africa during a symposium focusing on Cosmic Rays and Space Weather organised by UN-ARCSSTEE in
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After 25 years of drifting undetected in space, an experimental satellite that launched in 1974 has been found using tracking data from the U.S. Space Force. The Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (S73-7) satellite started its journey into the great unknown after launching on April 10, 1974 through the United States Air Force’s Space Test Program. It
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On May 6, 1968, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong almost met his fate while simulating a lunar landing. This was a little over a year before he would become the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was flying in a machine called the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston
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Starliner will send its first astronaut crew to space as early as Monday (May 6), and Mission Control plans one last big test to get ready for the event. NASA and Boeing Starliner officials worked together at the government agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on an hours-long prelaunch test on Sunday (May 5). A
The first Hispanic woman to launch into space is now the second female astronaut to be awarded the United States’ highest honor. Ellen Ochoa, who later directed NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, was bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House on Friday (May 3). Ochoa is the
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XMM-Newton, a European Space Agency and NASA-operated space telescope, has imaged a vast cosmic “Cloverleaf” to uncover its mysterious origins. The Cloverleaf is an example of an “odd radio circle,” or ORC. These objects are strange bubbles of radio light that are so huge they can be thousands of times the width of the Milky
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The new Starliner spacecraft is “go” for its first-ever astronaut launch on Monday (May 6), Boeing and NASA officials announced today (May 3). Barring bad weather or any last-minute technical issues, Starliner was cleared to send two veteran NASA astronauts and former U.S. Navy test pilots to the International Space Station (ISS). On board this
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Virgin Galactic will fly again next month, if all goes according to plan. The company announced on Wednesday (May 1) that it’s targeting June 8 for its seventh commercial spaceflight, a suborbital jaunt called, fittingly enough, Galactic 07. It will be Virgin Galactic‘s second spaceflight of the year, after the Galactic 06 mission on Jan.
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It has been 38 years since Halley’s Comet last passed through the inner solar system. This famous comet takes roughly 75 years to circle the sun. But if you’re 42 years old or younger, you probably have little or no memory of the 1986 appearance of this famous cosmic vagabond (your next chance will come in
