That mysterious Chinese space plane has been newly caught on camera by a satellite watcher who snagged new imagery of the high-flying robotic vehicle. China’s space plane, now circling Earth on its third flight, was lobbed into orbit on Dec. 14, 2023 by a Long March 2F rocket. Space watcher...

YahClick, a leading satellite broadband service provider, is strengthening its commitment to expanding internet access across Angola following its successful participation in Angotic 2024. The company’s Africa team, including Kevin Viret, VP of the Africa Region, and Wesley Alexander, Manager of the...

Few sights are as memorable as Venus, the brightest planet, passing very close to a crescent moon in a twilight sky. Such an event may have inspired the symbols on the flag of Turkey or the famous lines penned by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner:” Till clomb above...

SpaceX launched a private cargo spacecraft toward the International Space Station (ISS) today (Aug. 4), on the company’s second liftoff of the day. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Cygnus freighter lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 11:02 a.m. EDT (1502 GMT)...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Sunday (Aug. 4), continuing a busy stretch for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday at 3:24 a.m. EDT (0724 GMT; 12:24 a.m...

SpaceX will launch a private robotic cargo craft toward the International Space Station (ISS) this morning (Aug. 3), and you can watch it live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus freighter from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 11:29 a.m...

Rocket Lab launched a sharp-eyed Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit today (Aug. 2). An Electron vehicle lifted off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand site today at 12:39 p.m. EDT (1639 GMT; 4:39 a.m. on Aug. 3 New Zealand time). The launch was originally targeted for Tuesday (July 30), but...

An exercise device for the moon just had its first taste of microgravity. A flywheel design destined to fly on the Artemis 2 round-the-moon astronaut mission, no earlier than 2025, flew six parabolic flights in Canada during the week of July 15. Researchers flew in a business jet known as the Falcon...

We now know who will fly on SpaceX‘s Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. On Thursday (Aug. 1), NASA revealed the four astronauts of Crew-10, which will launch toward the ISS no earlier than February 2025. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers will...