After two trips to the launch pad that didn’t end up going into space, two NASA astronauts finally headed into orbit on Wednesday in a vehicle built by aerospace giant Boeing. The maiden voyage of Starliner, a 15-foot-wide capsule with astronauts on board, comes four years and six days after SpaceX, the other company NASA … Read more
Illustration of Sierra Space’s first dream shooter, called DC#1 (Persistence). Credit: Sierra Space Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser Tenacity, part of NASA‘s initiative to increase commercial supply missions in International Space Station, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center for its first mission. After rigorous pre-launch testing, it is scheduled to deliver 7,800 pounds of payload using … Read more
Trouble with one of the Hubble telescope’s three remaining gyroscopes, critical for aiming and locking onto targets, has prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode that will limit some observations but keep the iconic observatory running until the 2030s, officials said. Tuesday. “We still believe there is a very high probability and … Read more
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been seen in the skies over Texas SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Monday night. The launch was intended to send 23 Starlink satellites into orbit. Fox – 4 News Anyone up for dinner and a rocket launch? A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket … Read more
An international team has discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting a long-lived red dwarf, providing unique insights into potentially habitable worlds. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers using robotic global telescopes discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultracool red dwarf inside Milky Way. This planet, tidally locked and likely lacking an atmosphere due to intense radiation, offers … Read more
We’ll get an update on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (June 4), and it could be a pretty big deal. On June 3, the agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope team will hold a press conference about the observatory’s status tomorrow at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). Specifically, officials said the purpose of this … Read more