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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 […]

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

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

A Russian spacecraft is finally open to the space station after its cargo delivery was delayed by an unusual smell. A robotic Progress spacecraft docked at the International Space Station as planned on Saturday (Nov. 23) after its launch on Nov. 21, but astronauts reported a strange stench coming from the vehicle that delayed unloading.

SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Tuesday morning (Nov. 26). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday at 10:05 p.m. EST (0308 GMT on Wed Nov. 27). Backup opportunities are available

SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch yet another high-profile NASA science mission. The agency announced today (Nov. 25) that it has picked the Falcon Heavy to loft Dragonfly, a $3.35 billion mission that will investigate the life-hosting potential of Saturn’s huge moon Titan. The burly rocket also launched NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe and Europa

Firefly Aerospace’s moon lander is ready for its upcoming lunar voyage. The company announced its Blue Ghost lunar lander completed environmental testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in mid-October and is now ready to be shipped to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA and SpaceX plan to launch the lander from Launch Complex 39A

After over a decade of meticulous data collection, scientists at the H.E.S.S. observatory — which stands for “High Energy Stereoscopic System” and is located in Namibia — have made a groundbreaking discovery. They’ve detected the most energetic cosmic electrons ever observed, unlocking new avenues in our understanding of the universe. “Cosmic rays are a century-old

Rocket Lab launched five “Internet of Things” (IoT) satellites to orbit on Sunday night (Nov. 24), continuing to build out a constellation for the French company Kinéis. An Electron launcher carrying five of Kinéis’ spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand site Sunday at 10:55 p.m. EST (0355 GMT and 4:55 p.m. local New

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Monday morning (Nov. 25). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft — including 12 with direct-to-smartphone capability — is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday during a 3.5-hour window that opens at