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SpaceX plans to launch 30 satellites to orbit early Saturday morning (Dec. 21). A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday at 6:34 a.m. EDT (1134 GMT; 3:34 a.m. local California time), kicking off a rideshare mission SpaceX calls Bandwagon-2. The company will webcast the action …

SpaceX Launching 30 Satellites On Bandwagon-2 Rideshare Mission Early Dec. 21. Read More »

The spaceflight company Rocket Lab called off a planned launch of half a dozen commercial satellites due to concerns over sensor readings on Friday (Dec. 20). Rocket Lab scrubbed what was to be its 16th Electron rocket flight of 2024 less than 20 minutes before planned liftoff at 10:03 a.m. EST (1503 GMT) from the …

Rocket Lab Scrubs Strix Radar Satellite Launch For Synspective Over ‘Sensor Data’. Read More »

Probing a distant galaxy like a “cosmic crime scene” with the Hubble Space Telescope after a “tip-off” from the Chandra X-ray telescope, NASA scientists have discovered a strange black hole that is tipped onto its side. The sideways black hole was discovered in the galaxy NGC 5084, a lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxy located around 80 million …

NASA’s Hubble and Chandra Telescopes Discover A Strange ‘Sideways’ Black Hole In A Cosmic Crime Scene. Read More »

Rocket Lab plans to launch an Earth-observing radar satellite, and you can watch it live when a new launch date is set. An Electron rocket was scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand site on Dec. 20, but was scrubbed with less than 20 minutes remaining in the countdown. “We are standing down …

Rocket Lab Launch A Private Earth-Imaging Satellite. Read More »

Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner completed a spacewalk lasting over seven hours to install an advanced X-ray spectrometer on the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Friday. During the spacewalk, the cosmonauts connected the SPIN-X1-MVN spectrometer to the Zvezda service module of the ISS, which will enable …

Russian Cosmonauts Install X-ray Spectrometer On Int’l Space Station. Read More »

Firefly Aerospace’s first mission to the moon is nearly ready to fly. The company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Monday (Dec. 16) for integration with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the robotic probe — as well as the private Japanese moon lander Resilience …

SpaceX Will Launch Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lander To The Moon In Mid-January With These 10 NASA Payloads. Read More »

Two private moon landers will take flight on the same SpaceX rocket next month, if all goes according to plan. The Japanese company ispace announced on Tuesday night (Dec. 17) that its second-ever moon mission will launch on the same Falcon 9 rocket that will loft Blue Ghost, a lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly …

Double Moon Mission! SpaceX To Launch 2 Private Lunar landers In January. Read More »

Japanese startup Space One lost another rocket today (Dec. 18) when its Kairos 2 launch vehicle failed shortly after liftoff. Space One was aiming to be the first private Japanese company to put a satellite into orbit with the Kairos 2 rocket, but it was not to be. After taking off around 11 a.m. local …

Private Japanese Rocket Explodes After Liftoff In Its 2nd Launch Failure Of 2024. Read More »

China has started building its second enormous satellite-internet constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO). A Long March 5B rocket lifted off from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the island of Hainan Monday (Dec. 16) at 5:00 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT; 6 p.m. local time), carrying 10 broadband spacecraft aloft. Everything went well, according to the …

China Launches 1st Set Of Spacecraft For Planned 13,000-Satellite Broadband Constellation. Read More »

Chinese astronauts living aboard the Tiangong Space Station created a world record on December 17. Two of the Shezhou 19 crew members conducted a marathon nine-hour Extravehicular Activity (EVA) or spacewalk, highest ever in spaceflight history while working outside the station. The EVA was precisely clocked in at nine hours and 6 minutes. According to …

Chinese Astronauts Conduct Record-Breaking 9-hour Spacewalk Outside Tiangong Space Station. Read More »