John Raoux/AP Boeing’s Starliner capsule lifts off Wednesday atop an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a mission to the International Space Station. CNN – After a successful launch that was a decade in the making, Boeing’s Starliner mission is navigating new challenges en route … 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
Larger / Hubble Space Telescope on Earth, photographed during STS-125, Shuttle Mission 4, May 2009. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when there are none left, the instrument will cease to perform meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has operated in space for nearly three and a half decades, … Read more
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation after an incident during its first crewed flight in two years in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate. William Shatner for Jeff Bezos to the company The new Shepard rocket was launched on … Read more