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Boeing’s Starliner capsule just returned to Earth without astronauts, marking the beginning of a new set of investigations by NASA. Starliner left the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday evening (Sept. 6), then aced a landing in New Mexico just after midnight on Saturday (Sept. 7). The touchdown brought an end to Crew Flight Test […]

Starliner’s long space odyssey is over. The Boeing capsule, named Calypso, returned to Earth early this morning (Sept. 7), touching down in the New Mexico desert at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT; 11:01 p.m. local time on Sept. 6). “Great landing of Calyspo!” NASA astronaut Suni Williams said on the agency’s webcast. “I don’t think

Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket won’t debut next month after all. New Glenn, the company’s partially reusable new heavy lifter, had been scheduled to launch NASA’s twin ESCAPADE Mars probes from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during an eight-day window that opens on Oct. 13. But that’s no longer the plan. “The

Boeing’s Starliner capsule is ready to come home at long last. The two NASA astronauts who rode Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS), Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, “have finished packing Starliner with cargo and configuring its cabin for return,” NASA officials announced in an update on Thursday (Sept. 5). “The duo closed Starliner’s

China will send samples of bricks to its space station in the coming months to test their durability in extreme conditions and potential use in building moon bases. Samples of bricks made of varying compositions from lunar soil simulant will be launched to the Tiangong space station aboard the upcoming Tianzhou 8 cargo mission, according

China’s mysterious space plane has returned to Earth after spending over 8 months in orbit. The reusable spacecraft landed at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in a remote section of northwest China on Friday (Sept. 6). It launched from the same site atop a Long March 2F rocket on Dec. 14, 2023, on its third

An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The mission is designed to test solar sail technology to help NASA develop larger spacecraft in the future using this next-generation

The Senegalese Space Study Agency (ASES) has signed an agreement with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to join the China-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). ASES director Maram Kaire signed the agreement with the CNSA chief engineer, Li Guoping, on September 5, 2024. This was done during the opening ceremony of a two-day conference,

The Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) and the African Astronomical Society (AfAS). The collaboration focuses on initiatives focused on human capital development. The agreement is meant to establish cooperation for the next five years and was signed during the International Astronomical

SpaceX continues to keep busy. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (Sept. 5) at 11:20 p.m. EDT (8:20 p.m. local California time; 0320 GMT on Sept. 6 ), sending a batch of next-gen spy satellites aloft for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). It was