Russia launched 53 small satellites into orbit on Monday (Nov. 4), a mix of Russian and international spacecraft. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage lifted off from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East at 6:18 p.m. EST on Monday (2318 GMT; or 2:18 a.m. on Nov. 5 local time). “The …
Russia Sends 53 Satellites To Orbit On Record-Breaking Launch. Read More »
Space specialists in China have begun to assess experiment samples brought back by the Shenzhou-18 crew that touched down Nov. 4 in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu parachuted back to Earth after their six-month stay in the country’s Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-18 crew conducted some 90 …
China’s Space Station Experiments Are Back On Earth. Read More »
NASA’s revolutionary X-59 jet is steadily progressing towards its first flight test. Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA’s X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs of the jet’s engines at the storied Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The tests are going in phases. During the preliminary tests, …
NASA’s X-59 ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Jet Test Fires Engine For 1st Time. Read More »
SpaceX will boost the space station for the first time Friday (Nov. 8), as the company prepares to eventually kill the orbiting complex. A Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) will fire its engines for 12.5 minutes on Friday (Nov. 8), NASA officials said at a press conference Monday (Nov. 4). …
SpaceX’s Dragon Is About To Do Something To The ISS It’s Never Done Before. Read More »
On November 5, 2024, Ghana officially launched its National Space Policy, memorialising a significant milestone in its growing space sector. The policy aims to harness the power of space technology and leverage it to propel economic growth, enhance national security, and ensure sustainable development. With space technology already being used across various sectors such as …
SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 7) from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday during a four-hour window that opens at 3:13 p.m. EST (1813 GMT). SpaceX will webcast …
SpaceX Launching 23 More Starlink Satellites From Florida On Nov. 7. Read More »
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus — the spacecraft’s final maneuver around the amber planet — in a flyby that will nudge the probe on a trajectory that will take it within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface. That will be the closest that any human-built object has come …
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The space station received a new shipment of supplies this morning (Nov. 5). A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft laden with 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of food, equipment and experiments completed docking with the International Space Station (ISS) at 10:04 a.m. EST (1404 GMT), about 11 minutes ahead of schedule. The spacecraft arrived at the ISS …
SpaceX Dragon Cargo Capsule Arrives At ISS On 31st Resupply Mission. Read More »
NASA’s venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as expected on Friday (Nov. 1), the agency announced. NASA confirmed the spacecraft‘s demise on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday (Nov. 2). While it’s the end for …
SpaceX scrubbed a launch of its Starlink satellites this weekend due to an issue with one of its rockets. The company was scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket containing 23 of its Starlink satellites on Sunday (Nov. 3) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, but SpaceX …
SpaceX Scrubs Starlink Satellite Launch Due To Apparent Rocket Helium Leak. Read More »
