HERA Spacecraft Will Follow NASA's Plan To Change an Asteroid's Orbit
2 Sep 2022, 20:34 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / The European Space Agency is sending Hera Spacecraft to investigate the aftermath of the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft into an asteroid
2022 Will Come With Four NASA Missions Set to Monitor Our Changing Planet
13 Dec 2021, 22:29 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / 2022 will be a busy year for NASA as the space agency is preparing to launch four missions that will monitor our planet and how it's changing
Atlas V Rocket Blasts Off Into Space With Cutting-Edge Tech for NASA, U.S. Space Force
7 Dec 2021, 21:27 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying payloads for NASA and the U.S. Space Force launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Atlas V Rocket Launches With NASA's Earth-Monitoring Landsat 9 Satellite
28 Sep 2021, 00:20 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / On Monday, September 27th, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base with NASA's Landsat 9 Earth-monitoring satellite
ISS Turned 20 This Week, 241 People Went Up There Since Expedition 1
8 Nov 2020, 09:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The International Space Station turned 20 years old this week, orbital laboratory is the most successful one its kind ever made
USAF X-37B Plane Comes Home After Record 2+ Years in Space
28 Oct 2019, 12:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The X-37B space plane clocked 780 days on non-stop flight, setting a record in the process for one of America's most secretive projects
What Happens With the International Space Station at the End of its Life?
19 Oct 2019, 09:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The International Space Station (ISS) is gradually losing altitude and will soon come to the end of its life, but what will happen to it then?
Virgin Galactic to Fly Italian Air Force Specialists to Space for Experiments
3 Oct 2019, 15:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Three Italian Air Force researchers will be flown into space by Virgin Galactic in 2020, the first time government employees go to space in a private spacecraft
ESA Satellite Dodges Out of the Way to Avoid Collision with SpaceX Starlink
4 Sep 2019, 15:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ESA Aeolus Earth forced to raise its orbit to avoid a possible collision with one of the satellites in the SpaceX Starlink constellation
Archinaut Project to 3D-Print Spacecraft in Orbit
18 Jul 2019, 13:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the 2020 test, NASA and its commercial partners will attempt to manufacture in orbit two 10-meter solar arrays needed to power a small satellite
Bill Nye to Send LightSail 2 Spacecraft in Orbit Using Falcon Heavy
11 Jun 2019, 13:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bill Nye's LightSail 2 spacecraft to launch at the end of the month inside the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, to attempt orbit movement using solar radiation
Starlink Satellites Are Now Up and Running, Moving to Orbits
3 Jun 2019, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceX says Starlink satellites have deployed their solar arrays, generated positive power and communicated with our ground stations
SpaceX Is a Money Factory for Elon Musk, Logs $2 Billion in 2018
21 May 2019, 15:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Financial services company Jefferies estimates SpaceX had a $2 billion revenue from launches last year, outclassing ULA and Arianespace
Fastest Spacecraft in History Completes First Orbit of the Sun
4 Feb 2019, 15:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / During its 24 runs around the Sun, the probe will use four instrument suites to gather data relevant to the understanding of the Sun’s fundamental physics
Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Gets Its First Major Contract
1 Feb 2019, 12:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Telesat will be among the first to have its equipment delivered to orbit by Blue Origin, as it plans to expand its LEO constellation of satellites
Chinese Private Space Companies Racing to Reach Orbit in 2019
29 Jan 2019, 15:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In 2018, China had more rocket launches than the tradition players in the industry, the U.S and Russia, and it will probably manage the same this year
Blue Origin New Shepard Rocket Takes NASA Payload to Space, Humans Come Next
24 Jan 2019, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On board the New Shepard mission 10, in its brief foray into space, were eight NASA-backed experiments, devised by students, scientists and entrepreneurs
SpaceX Launches 20th Rocket with USAF GPS Satellite, Does Not Recover Booster
24 Dec 2018, 11:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Very unlike SpaceX, the company did not attempt to recover the first stage booster after separation due to “mission requirements.”
CubeSats Fly for the First Time on a Rocket Built for Them
18 Dec 2018, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / CubeSats are small-sized satellites that have started life as a tool for NASA to teach engineering students how to build spacecraft
19th SpaceX Launch Sends to Orbit Largest Number of Payloads Ever from U.S. Soil
4 Dec 2018, 16:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceX breaks three records with Monday's Falcon 9 launch: largest number of payloads, reusing the same booster three times and the 19th launch in a year