The European Space Agency is studying a potentially serious problem with the atomic clocks that drive Europe’s Galileo Navigation Satellites and have shown an alarming failure rate across the early phase of the satellite constellation.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Spacecraft aced its first Deep Space Maneuver on December 28, 2016 and is now lined up for a planned September 2017 flyby of Earth
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Russian space officials ordered a replacement of upper stage engines on Soyuz rockets for two upcoming cargo and crew missions to the International Space Station.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V was rolled to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral to set up for the rocket’s first mission of the year on Thursday, the delivery of a vital asset for U.S. Defense Forces.
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SpaceX’s Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship was towed into the Port of Los Angeles in the early hours on Tuesday, marking the triumphant return of the first Falcon 9 booster to stick a sea-based landing in the Pacific Ocean.
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Roscosmos on Monday confirmed earlier reports of problems with the next Soyuz spacecraft to fly to the International Space Station, requiring the capsule to be replaced by the subsequent vehicle that was at a similar stage in its launch processing campaign.
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A group of six small satellites from Japan, Singapore and Italy was released from the International Space Station on Monday to begin a variety of technical demonstration missions with particular focus on orbital debris removal and re-entry systems.
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A beefed up sounding rocket aspiring to become the world’s smallest orbital launch vehicle raced into the morning skies over Southern Japan on Sunday to place a tiny satellite into orbit in a pathfinder mission for the development of a future small-satellite launch vehicle catered specifically to the deployment of NanoSatellites.
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Photos of U.S. EVA-39, performed on Friday the 13th of January, 2017 by ISS Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough and ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet to finish the integration of new batteries on the Space Station’s truss started earlier in the week by the Station’s robots.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made an impressive Return to Flight on Saturday, blasting off from California and earning double check-marks by achieving a flawless delivery of ten Iridium-NEXT communications satellites and successfully landing the rocket’s first stage at sea for the first time after a West Coast launch.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made an impressive Return to Flight on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 17:54 UTC with ten Iridium-NEXT Satellites.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made an impressive Return to Flight on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 17:54 UTC with ten Iridium-NEXT Satellites.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 is standing tall atop its West Coast launch pad in California, working towards a Saturday morning liftoff on its long-awaited Return to Flight mission following the September 1st testing accident and subsequent grounding of the rocket.
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A French-American astronaut duo ventured outside the hatches of the International Space Station on Friday for the second spacewalk in one week dedicated to the integration of new batteries put in place by the Space Station’s robots in an extensive effort to rejuvenate the ISS power system as the complex heads into its last decade of operations.
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A U.S.-European astronaut duo is set for a busy spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday to continue outfitting the station with new batteries – a complex task split between the station’s robots and spacewalking crew members to give ISS a pair of revamped power channels driven by Li-Ion battery technology.
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The December 1 loss of the Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft was most likely caused by a failure within the Soyuz rocket’s upper stage engine which caused the third stage oxidizer tank to rupture.
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Arianespace plans to build on a successful year 2016 with a sustained launch pace in 2017, opening the year with two new launch contracts for television and broadband satellites to ride into orbit aboard the company’s Ariane 5 rocket in 2018 and 2019.
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