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Of all the planets in our solar system, Saturn is by far the mooniest. And that’s saying a lot. Sure, we’re here in our corner with our single friend, The Moon™, but Neptune wanders the universe with 16 known companions, Uranus boasts 28 of its own, and there are a whopping 95 moons in the […]

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Dec. 13). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 4:55 p.m. EDT (2155 GMT; 1:55 p.m. local time in California). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth as

The world’s most powerful rocket is nearing its next test flight. The seventh launch of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket is expected within the next month or so. After a recent static fire of the vehicle’s massive Super Heavy first-stage booster, the company has prepped the Starship upper stage for testing of its own. “Starship ready for

SpaceX scrubbed the planned launch of the mysterious RRT-1 mission from Florida’s Space Coast on Friday (Dec. 13)_ due to high winds. A Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday at 8:04 p.m. EDT (0104 GMT on Dec. 14), kicking off a mission that SpaceX

The final full moon of 2024 lights the skies this weekend to welcome in the holiday season. December’s full Cold Moon will rise overnight on Saturday (Dec. 14) and remain in the sky all night until setting with the sunrise on Sunday (Dec. 15). The full moon will rise in the Taurus constellation, just along

Sonke Telecommunications has achieved a global milestone by introducing a world-first Layer 2 solution integrated into its OneWeb (Eutelsat) satellite connectivity offering. This breakthrough, powered by Sonke’s advanced core network fabric, enables rapid adoption of emerging technologies and customisable connectivity solutions. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology deployment brings high-speed, low-latency internet to businesses and

India continues to perfect hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program. L scenarios. The Gaast week, the nation recovered a mock Gaganyaan crew module onto a ship’s well deck, which opens to the sea and can be flooded with water so that the module can be hoisted post-splashdown and towed inside. The

Fifty nations have now joined NASA’s effort to establish peaceful and cooperative international space exploration. On Wednesday (Dec. 11), Panama and Austria signed NASA’s Artemis Accords, becoming the 49th and 50th nations to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity, according to a statement from NASA. “NASA welcomes Panama and Austria to

On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface at a whopping 430,000 mph (690,000 kph), breaking its own records for speed and closest approach to our star. The spacecraft, roughly the size of a small car, completed its final swing past Venus last

Rocket Lab’s pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed. The mission in question lifted off on Nov. 24 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Virginia’s Wallops Island. It employed HASTE, the suborbital variant of Rocket Lab‘s workhorse Electron launcher. Less than 22 hours later, an