Even for Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized in a newly found hotspot region of Io estimated to be larger than Lake Superior on Earth. The currently unnamed region is so …
The next lunar lander launch is nearly here — and it’s packed with mobile spacecraft and cutting-edge technology. Intuitive Machines‘ IM-2 lunar mission lander, named Athena, arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday (Jan. 28), in preparation for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Athena — which is Intuitive Machines’ second lander — aims …
Private Athena Moon Lander Arrives In Florida Ahead of SpaceX Launch On Feb. 26. Read More »
A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month, SpaceNews reports. The Odin spacecraft will be flying as a secondary payload aboard a SpaceX Falcon …
Space Mining Company AstroForge Identifies Asteroid Target For Odin Launch Next Month. Read More »
Two NASA astronauts working outside of the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 30) were able to finally remove a faulty radio communications unit, succeeding where two previous spacewalks had been unsuccessful. The extended work needed to free the radio frequency group (RFG) by Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore came at a cost, …
NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Sets New Record On 5.5-Hour Spacewalk Outside ISS. Read More »
The world’s leading rocket launch provider and a California-based space startup are teaming up to solicit research proposals for experiments that will fly aboard the first-ever commercial space station, slated to liftoff later this year. Vast Space is scheduled to launch the Haven-1 space station to orbit this August. The single-module station will launch on …
The International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU-OAD) will support 13 global projects in 2025, selected to receive a total of EUR 69,500. Two ongoing multi-year projects have received EUR 21,000 for their second and third year of funding. This represents a 42.48% decrease from last year’s allocation of EUR 113,011 that funded …
IAU-OAD to Fund 13 Astronomy-for-Development Projects in 2025. Read More »
NASA’s second spacewalk of 2025 is set to begin today, with NASA’s Starliner astronauts tasked with retrieving hardware from the exterior of the space station. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin the station’s 274th spacewalk, U.S. EVA 92 early Jan. 30, at approximately 8:00 a.m. EST (1300 GMT). A livestream …
SpaceX has launched the next-generation Spanish communications satellite Wednesday night (Jan. 29), soaring the spacecraft into a geostationary transfer orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpainSat Next Generation 1 (SpainSat NG-1), a communications satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Hisdesat communications, lifted off from Pad 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, in Florida …
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Next-gen SpainSat NG-1 Satellite Into Orbit. Read More »
India just launched its first mission of 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on schedule today at 7:53 p.m. EST (0053 GMT and 6:23 a.m. local time on Jan. 29). It was the 100th launch overall from the storied spaceport, which lies …
India Launches Navigation Satellite Into Orbit On Nation’s 1st Mission of 2025. Read More »
Blue Origin will have to wait a bit longer to get its first-ever moon-gravity mission off the ground. The company, which was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, had planned to launch its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for the 29th time (Jan. 28) from its West Texas launch site. But two different issues conspired to prevent …
