SpaceX plans to launch another batch of U.S. spy satellites early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday during a four-hour window that opens at 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT; 12:10 a.m. local time). The rocket will be carrying a set …
NASA has confirmed that one of its greatest ever missions, Voyager 1, is back in business with communications restored following an incident in October that had led to the veteran spacefarer losing its voice. Now 47 years old, Voyager 1 is 15.4 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, a distance that grows greater with …
Voyager 1 Interstellar Spacecraft Finds Its Voice Again As NASA Restores Communications. Read More »
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it is finalizing nearly $60 million in government subsidies for BAE Systems to build chips used in jets and satellites, and for Rocket Lab to build compound semiconductors used in satellites and spacecraft. The department is finalizing $35.5 million to BAE (BAES.L), opens new tab to quadruple production …
US Finalizes Awards To BAE Systems, Rocket Lab For Semiconductor Chips. Read More »
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. Launched on Oct. 14, the Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently en route to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean. The mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space …
NASA’s Europa Clipper Probe Deploys 1st Science Instruments En Route To Jupiter. Read More »
The head of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, Yury Borisov, announced that Russia is proposing to construct spaceports in “friendly” nations, including African countries like Algeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and others, as first reported by Sputnik. Additionally, Yury added that these proposals are especially relevant to countries closer to the equator, which prove ideal …
China has deorbited a cargo spacecraft that earlier this year delivered supplies to the country’s space station. That freighter, called Tianzhou 7, launched on a Long March 7 rocket from the Wenchang spaceport on Jan. 17, arriving at the Tiangong space station hours later. It delivered supplies for astronauts, experiments, materials and propellant to keep …
China’s Tianzhou 7 Spacecraft Burns Up In Earth’s Atmosphere To End Cargo Mission. Read More »
SpaceX just notched a big spaceflight milestone. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (Nov. 26) at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 GMT on Wednesday, Nov. 27). The satellites were deployed into low Earth orbit about 65 minutes later as planned. …
SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites On 400th Successful Falcon 9 Flight. Read More »
In late 2024 or early 2025, United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly its first of more than two dozen U.S. Space Force missions allocated under a national security space launch contract. “It’s incredibly exciting,” Mark Peller, Senior Vice President of Vulcan Development and Advanced Programs at ULA, told Space.com recently. “We’ve stacked …
Powerful New Vulcan Centaur Rocket Gearing Up For 1st Space Force Mission. Read More »
The International Space Station just dodged a piece of debris for the second time in less than a week. Russia’s robotic Progress 89 freighter, which has been docked to the ISS since August, fired its thrusters for about 3.5 minutes on Monday morning (Nov. 25) to get the station clear of a hunk of space …
International Space Station Dodges 2nd Piece Of Space Junk In 6 Days. Read More »
A test of an engine for Japan’s upcoming Epsilon rocket ended in an explosion on Tuesday (Nov. 26), the second time in less than two years that this engine has met an untimely end during testing. On Tuesday, a second-stage engine designed for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) new Epsilon S rocket exploded some …
New Japanese Rocket Engine Explodes During Testing For 2nd Time In 16 Months. Read More »
