SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Sunday evening (April 28). The Starlink spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:08 p.m. EDT (2208 GMT). To plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth for a vertical landing about …
SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink Satellites From Florida. Read More »
SpaceX’s 30th robotic Dragon cargo ship is headed back home to Earth. Dragon departed from the International Space Station (ISS) today (April 28) at 1:10 p.m. EDT (1710 GMT), while the two spacecraft were flying over Thailand. It was orbital nighttime in that locale, so there were no good visuals of the moment of undocking. …
SpaceX’s 30th Dragon Cargo Mission Departs The ISS, Heads Home To Earth. Read More »
SpaceX tied its rocket-reuse record on Saturday night (April 27). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 8:34 p.m. EDT (0034 GMT on April 28). It was the 20th launch for this Falcon 9’s first stage, according to a SpaceX mission description. That tied a mark set earlier this month …
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Russia vetoed a United Nations resolution that was aimed at preventing a nuclear arms race in space. The resolution was sponsored by the United States and Japan and called upon all nations to never deploy nuclear weapons in outer space. The resolution comes on the heels of recent reports that Russia is developing a nuclear …
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When we picture what’s in deep space, we often think of static images — colorful composites of distant objects like nebulas and galaxies, frozen in time. The reality is that everything is moving, and it’s moving fast. But given the vast distances involved, it’s hard for us to see that motion. NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, …
Watch 2 Gorgeous Supernova Remnants Evolve Over 20 Years. Read More »
Amy Lien is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Tampa whose research interests lie in understanding how the universe begins and evolves through the most energetic astrophysical explosions: gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), supernovas, merging neutron stars and black holes. When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that …
Exploding Stars Send Out Powerful Bursts Of Energy. Read More »
Seasonal, spider-like features have been spotted sprouting through cracks in Mars’ surface. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured new images of small, dark features that resemble spiders scuttling across the Martian region known as Inca City near the Red Planet‘s south pole. This phenomenon appears when spring sunlight warms layers of carbon dioxide …
Satellites Spot Clusters Of ‘Spiders’ Sprawled Across Mars’ Inca City. Read More »
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that early universe galaxies must have grown up way faster than expected. Plus, the same team also found that, 10 billion years ago, the cosmos wasn’t quite as disordered and chaotic as previously believed. The international team, led by researchers from Durham University in the U.K., …
Two Russian cosmonauts completed a spacewalk at the International Space Station and more than completed all their tasks, including the radar deployment they started last year. Expedition 71 crew members Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub successfully deployed and locked the fourth of four panels for a synthetic radar communications system on Russia’s Nauka multifunction laboratory …
Russian Cosmonauts Make Quick Work Of Space Station Spacewalk. Read More »
The first Starliner crew is ready to fly on May 6, the team told reporters upon arriving at the launch site. This will mark the spacecraft’s debut mission with humans on board. The two NASA astronauts to fly aboard Boeing Starliner, commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center …
