Tag: NASA
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After encountering glitches, Hubble and Chandra space telescopes make recoveries
The Hubble Space Telescope hangs in orbit after a 2002 servicing mission. (NASA Photo) Things are looking up for two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Both telescopes had to go out of service this month due to different types of problems experienced by their gyroscopic pointing systems.…
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NASA administrator says Russians on track for December Soyuz flight to station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks at a meeting of the National Space Council on Tuesday in Washington. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Russian engineers have a “really, really good idea” about what went wrong during a Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Oct. 11, forcing the ship’s two-man crew…
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Pegasus rocket launch postponed
The ICON spacecraft was re-encapsulated inside the Pegasus XL rocket’s nose cone at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, after an aborted launch campaign in June. Credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin Continuing a series of delays keeping NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer on Earth, NASA announced Tuesday that the satellite’s launch aboard an air-dropped Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket…
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NASA puts out the call for science and technology payloads made for the moon
An artist’s conception shows ispace’s lander descending to the lunar surface. (ispace Illustration) NASA is following up on its plan to purchase rides on commercial lunar landers by soliciting ideas for the scientific and technological payloads to put on them. Those payloads could be flying to the moon as early as next year, NASA said…
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NASA astronaut unfazed by frightening launch abort
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Nick Hague pictured during training before his launch last week on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger Two minutes after launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket last week, NASA astronaut Nick Hague knew something had gone badly wrong. At the moment four strap-on boosters separated from…
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Chandra X-ray telescope is back at work: Engineers trace glitch to 3 seconds of error
An artist’s conception shows the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. (NASA / CXC / SAO Illustration) NASA’s 19-year-old Chandra X-ray Observatory has been returned to its normal pointing mode after a data glitch forced a five-day outage, NASA said today. The bus-sized spacecraft went into safe mode on Oct. 10, bringing science observations to a halt. The…
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50 years after Apollo moonshots, will rivalry with China spark a new space race?
NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt stands next to the U.S. flag on the moon with Earth hanging in the black sky above during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. (NASA Photo) WASHINGTON, D.C. — An American rivalry with China could stoke a new space race in the years ahead, prominent members of the space community said at…
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Soyuz failure probe narrows focus on collision at booster separation
Veteran cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, head of Roscosmos human spaceflight programs, speaks to the press Friday in Moscow. Credit: Roscosmos Russian investigators believe a malfunction during separation of the Soyuz rocket’s four liquid-fueled first stage boosters two minutes after liftoff from Kazakhstan led to an emergency landing of a two-man crew heading for the International Space…
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Chandra X-ray telescope experiences a glitch; Hubble troubleshooting continues
An artist’s conception shows the Chandra X-ray Observatory. (NASA / CXC / SAO Illustration) Even as experts worked on ways to get the Hubble Space Telescope back doing science, another one of NASA’s Great Observatories in space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory — went into safe mode as well. NASA said the 19-year-old X-ray telescope put…
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Multiple replays of the Soyuz launch and abort
Replays from cameras at the Baikonur Cosmodrome capture the launch of a Soyuz booster from different angles. The usually reliable booster failed two minutes into the flight but the Russian-U.S. crew were able to make a safe emergency landing aboard inside the Soyuz capsule. Video: NASA.