The sun is in a zesty mood right now. Our friendly neighborhood star fired off a major solar flare on Thursday and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite captured an excellent view. NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tweeted two views of the flare popping off as seen in different […]
When it launches in 2022, the GOES-T satellite will watch over Earth and give us early warning of natural disasters. But preparing it is an epic task for Lockheed Martin. In a massive clean room in the middle of Denver, a giant satellite sits dormant, waiting for its journey into orbit. Engineers with Lockheed Martin’s
SpaceX’s Starship hasn’t reached orbit yet, but Elon Musk’s company wants everyone to remember its ultimate destination: Mars. SpaceX tweeted a lavish video homage to its future plans set to a rock-beat instrumental soundtrack. “Gateway to Mars,” SpaceX said over the weekend in a nod to its interplanetary ambitions. The video acts as a behind-the-scenes peek at the
Orbital Reef, billed as a “mixed use business park in space,” will be operational by the second half of the decade. Dreams of living in space are getting closer to reality. Blue Origin, the space startup founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Sierra Space on Monday announced plans for Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned and operated space
The RVac gets its first showing while strapped to the bottom of a Starship in delightful dusk test fire. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s spaceflight juggernaut, is in the middle of a lengthy licensing process with the Federal Aviation Administration over whether it will be able to launch its mammoth Starship to orbit from the coast of Boca Chica,
The rocket reached its desired altitude but fell short of getting its payload into space. South Korea’s first homegrown space rocket, dubbed Nuri, blasted off on Thursday. While the rocket reached its desired altitude, the mission failed to launch a dummy satellite into orbit. “Unfortunately, we did not fully reach our goal,” South Korean President Moon
Nanoracks is leading the charge on what it calls Starlab – “the first-ever free flying commercial space station.” The International Space Station is over 20 years old and NASA and private space companies are already looking ahead to what could come next. The next generation of space stations might look like Starlab, an orbital research facility announced by
One of the two solar arrays on the spacecraft hasn’t latched properly, NASA said Sunday, noting the issue should pose “no threat to its health and safety.” NASA had reason to celebrate Saturday after launching Lucy, a spacecraft tasked with investigating the Trojan asteroids locked in Jupiter’s orbit. But Lucy appears to have encountered its first obstacle:
One of Lucy’s engineers takes us behind the scenes of the momentous mission to the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will become the first-ever probe launched toward the Trojan asteroids, eons-old rocks trapped in Jupiter’s orbit. These rocks are the fossilized building blocks of our solar system and may
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted an unusual wind pattern making the rounds in the massive, swirling storm. Humanity has been following the adventures of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot for 150 years, and we’ve just learned something new about the swirling vortex. The winds along the outer edge of the oval are speeding up. Cue up
