A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is set for a U.S. West Coast launch on Wednesday lifting into orbit a clandestine payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Read more
The Lemur-2 NATE Satellite, part of Spire Global’s CubeSat Constellation, re-entered the atmosphere on February 27, 2017 after eight months in orbit collecting global ship-tracking data and measuring atmospheric parameters.
Read more
SpaceX picked the Moon as an intermediate destination in the company’s ambitious drive towards crewed exploration of Mars and other targets in the solar system.
Read more
The Block I third stage from the final Soyuz U rocket to fly to space re-entered the atmosphere on February 24, 2017 two days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to dispatch the Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft into orbit for a cargo run to the International Space Station.
Read more
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is pictured approaching the International Space Station ahead of a robotic capture on Thursday to mark the delivery of two and a half metric tons of critical science cargo, supplies and hardware to support a busy summer of research aboard the orbiting laboratory with over 300 studies planned for the next half year.
Read more
Russia’s Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft completed a fully automated docking with the International Space Station Friday morning, marking the return of Russian resupply missions after the Progress MS-04 launch failure in December left an unusually long gap in the typically near-continuous presence of a Progress craft at ISS.
Read more
NASA test fired a former Space Shuttle Main Engine on Wednesday as testing of the RS-25 engines continues in preparation for their new role of powering the Space Launch System rocket for Beyond Earth Orbit exploration missions.
Read more
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, captured by the Station’s robotic arm after an extended rendezvous that required Dragon to fly around the orbiting laboratory after a rendezvous attempt on Wednesday was waved off due to a problem with Dragon’s GPS navigation system.
Read more
Astronomers discovered a treasure trove of seven Earth-sized planets in orbit around a single star some 39 Light Years from Earth, NASA announced on Wednesday.
Read more
The Dragon SpX-10 cargo spacecraft aborted its rendezvous with the International Space Station on Wednesday after encountering a problem with the Relative GPS navigation feature used by the approaching craft during the far-field rendezvous phase.
Read more
Soyuz U – the world’s most-flown and longest-serving rocket – made its final blastoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, capping a 44-year career by lifting the Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft into orbit on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Read more
Russia’s venerable Soyuz U rocket made its final launch on Wednesday, carrying into orbit the Progress MS-05 ISS resupply spacecraft, putting an end to a 44-year career.
Read more
Soyuz U – the world’s most-flown and longest-serving rocket – made its final blastoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, capping a 44-year career by lifting the Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft into orbit on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Read more
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft maneuvered into a higher orbit on Tuesday and is en-route to a Wednesday rendezvous with the International Space Station, aiming for a robotic capture at 11 UTC to mark the arrival of the vehicle’s precious science cargo eagerly awaited by the crew in orbit.
Read more
Observers in Iran and Kuwait were baffled just after sunset on Sunday when a fast-moving object moved across the twilit skies and appeared to eject opaque clouds of gas.
Read more
Rocket Lab’s innovative Electron rocket has entered a final stage in the preparation for the company’s maiden launch, arriving at its New Zealand launch site for several weeks of processing and testing.
Read more
Russia’s final Soyuz U rocket rolled to its historic Baikonur Launch Pad on Monday to end a career of over four decades with what is hoped to be a successful Return to Flight mission on Wednesday, lifting off with the Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft – the first Russian cargo delivery to ISS after December’s Soyuz U launch failure.
Read more