The sun has certainly had a busy weekend. Not only has our star fired off multiple M-class solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (eruptions of magnetic field and solar plasma), but now it’s topped it all off with a colossal X-class solar flare. The eruption peaked on July 28 at 10:33 p.m. EDT (0233 GMT …
Watch A Colossal X-Class Solar Flare Erupt From Earth-Facing Sunspot. Read More »
Dead stars may produce intense flashes of light through the power of gravity itself, researchers have demonstrated. Understanding this phenomenon could reveal new insights about some of the largest, most mysterious explosions in the universe. Neutron stars are among the strangest objects in the universe. These collapsed cores of massive stars are incredibly dense, hosting …
Dead Stars Sometimes Shine Again And Gravity Itself May Be Responsible. Read More »
SpaceX wasn’t grounded for long. The company launched 23 of its Starlink broadband satellites from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday (July 27) at 1:45 a.m. EDT (0545 GMT). It was SpaceX‘s first liftoff since July 11, when a Falcon 9 suffered an upper-stage failure that led to …
SpaceX Bounces Back From Falcon 9 Failure With Successful Starlink Launch. Read More »
Excitement about the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics extends out into space. The six NASA astronauts currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) held their own mini-Olympics to mark the start of the games, which are being held in Paris and other sites around France. We get a glimpse at the spaceflyers’ lighthearted …
NASA Astronauts Hold Their Own Summer Olympics In Space. Read More »
We’ll all have to wait a bit longer to see the first-ever private spacewalk. SpaceX is now targeting mid- to late August for the launch of Polaris Dawn, a mission funded by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. The upcoming flight, which will employ SpaceX‘s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, had been slated to lift …
SpaceX’s Historic Polaris Dawn Astronaut Mission Delayed Until Mid-August. Read More »
The next space station astronaut crew may be the last to splash down in the ocean nearby the U.S. east coast. The Crew Dragon Crew-9 mission with astronauts is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than Aug. 18, perhaps becoming the final NASA-led ISS mission to arrive in the Atlantic Ocean …
Key Highlights Q-KON unveiled new OneWeb Twoobii-LEO user terminals with a successful demonstration at an exclusive Midrand, South Africa event. The new terminals offer a crucial backup to traditional fibre networks, maintaining seamless operations during fibre outages. Q-KON has released new OneWeb Twoobii-LEO user terminals. The launch was marked by a successful demonstration at an …
Q-KON Launches New OneWeb Twoobii-LEO User Terminals. Read More »
SpaceX says it has identified and fixed the problem that caused its Falcon 9 rocket to fail during a launch earlier this month. That failure occurred on July 11, as a Falcon 9 carried 20 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit. The rocket’s first stage performed normally that day, but its upper …
SpaceX Finds Cause of Falcon 9 Failure, Eyes Return To Flight As Soon As July 27. Read More »
Boeing’s Starliner will do a “hot fire” test in orbit soon, as NASA and the company continue to probe the cause of thruster failures and a helium leak in space. Starliner will conduct the test-fire of its 28-thruster reaction control system (RCS) on either Saturday (July 27) or Sunday (July 28) at the International Space …
50 days After Launch To ISS, Boeing Starliner Astronauts Still Have No Landing Date. Read More »
Blue Origin has announced the crew for its next New Shepard space tourism flight. The diverse crew includes a NASA-funded researcher, a professor, a university student, a cardiologist and entrepreneurs, Blue Origin announced in a statement on Wednesday (July 24). The announcement signals that Blue Origin is ready to resume flights, having tackled an issue …
Next Blue Origin Space Tourism Flight Will Launch Youngest Woman Above The Kármán Line. Read More »
