News
-
Falcon 9 rocket set for launch Friday from California
Read more →: Falcon 9 rocket set for launch Friday from CaliforniaA Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, is ready to be raised vertical on its…
-
NASA picks a drone for Titan and a return to a comet as prospects for future probes
Read more →: NASA picks a drone for Titan and a return to a comet as prospects for future probesAn artist’s conception shows the sequence leading to the landing of the Dragonfly probe and the deployment of…
-
SpaceX releases first pictures of Falcon Heavy rocket
Read more →: SpaceX releases first pictures of Falcon Heavy rocketCredit: SpaceX SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk released the first images of his company’s Falcon Heavy rocket Wednesday,…
-
NOAA’s GOES-16 weather satellite declared operational
Read more →: NOAA’s GOES-16 weather satellite declared operationalArtist’s concept of the GOES 16 satellite. Credit: Lockheed Martin An upgraded NOAA weather satellite has entered service…
-
Photos: Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, returns for landing
Read more →: Photos: Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, returns for landingSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket closed out a busy 2017 Cape Canaveral launch schedule on Dec. 15 with a…
-
Every day is moving day for Blue Origin’s new rocket facilities in Florida
Read more →: Every day is moving day for Blue Origin’s new rocket facilities in FloridaTanks for liquid oxygen and liquefied natural gas, the propellants to be used by Blue Origin’s New Glenn…
-
Elon Musk lifts the veil on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket being readied for its debut
Read more →: Elon Musk lifts the veil on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket being readied for its debutSpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket makes use of 27 Merlin engines arranged on three cores. (SpaceX via Elon Musk…
-
Titan drone, comet sampler picked as finalists for NASA mission
Read more →: Titan drone, comet sampler picked as finalists for NASA missionArtist’s concept of the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. Credit: NASA NASA has narrowed its choices for…
-
World View balloon goes boom after Spaceport Tucson test; no injuries reported
Read more →: World View balloon goes boom after Spaceport Tucson test; no injuries reportedNews Brief: A high-altitude balloon reportedly exploded at Spaceport Tucson in Arizona today after a test that was…
-
Soyuz with three-man crew docks with space station
Read more →: Soyuz with three-man crew docks with space stationA Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian commander, a NASA flight engineer and a Japanese physician-astronaut docked with the…
-
Juno probe’s new Jupiter pictures rate a 10
Read more →: Juno probe’s new Jupiter pictures rate a 10A processed picture from NASA’s Juno orbiter shows Jupiter’s mid-northern temperate belts. Click on the picture for a…
-
A new trio settles in on the space station
Read more →: A new trio settles in on the space stationThe six space station crewmates of Expedition 54 face the camera after their orbital meetup. Upper row: Joe…