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Last week, China successfully debuted its new launch vehicle Long March-12, delivering two experimental satellites into orbit and marking the inaugural flight from the country’s first commercial spaceport that will support the country’s upcoming surge in commercial space activity...
A European mission that will use two satellites to create artificial eclipses in Earth orbit launched early Thursday morning (Dec. 5) after a 24-hour delay. The European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Proba-3 formation-flying mission lifted off atop an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from...
The Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to develop an SKAO Africa Programme within the next 12 months. The programme will focus on developing human capital in radio astronomy and...
SpaceX notched a big milestone with a launch of its Starlink internet satellites on Wednesday night (Dec. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket launched 20 Starlink spacecraft from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday at 10:05 p.m. EST (7:05 p.m. local California time; 0305 GMT on Dec. 5) and...
A billionaire tech entrepreneur and private astronaut is Donald Trump’s choice for the next NASA chief. The president-elect announced via social media today (Dec. 4) that he has picked Jared Isaacman, the founder and CEO of payment-processing company Shift4 Payments, for the job of NASA...
India Delays Launch of European Proba-3 Satellites To Dec. 5 To Create Artificial Eclipses In Space.
A European mission that will use two satellites to create artificial eclipses in Earth orbit will now launch early Thursday morning (Dec. 5) after a delay, and you can watch the action live. The European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Proba-3 formation-flying mission is scheduled to lift off atop an...
For the first time since the launch vehicle’s catastrophic mission failure in 2022, Europe’s Vega-C rocket is poised to return to flight Thursday (Dec. 5), after a delay. The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite today, lifting off from...
SpaceX just set a new rocket-reuse record. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday (Dec. 4) at 5:13 a.m. EST (1013 GMT). The mission delivered 24 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit...
Scientists won’t be able to process much of the data gathered by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and IRIS spacecraft for a while, thanks to a burst water pipe. That pipe a 4-inch-wide (10 centimeters) cooling water line in a server room at Stanford University in California...