On Monday, October 14 at 12:06 p.m. ET Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s Europa Clipper mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the […]
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NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth
After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence. […]
SpaceX launches ESA and NASA’s Euclid on a mission to shed light on dark energy
On Saturday, July 1 at 11:12 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched the ESA Euclid mission to a Sun-Earth L2 transfer orbit, also known as the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, from Space […]
NASA-JPL Psyche launch is on track
An independently appointed review board has noted that steps taken by NASA, the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, and Caltech continue to place the upcoming Psyche mission […]
Momentus deploys Qosmosys satellite + starts comprehensive on-orbit support
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has deployed the Qosmosys Zeus-1 payload from the company’s Vigoride-5 Orbital Service Vehicle and is now providing comprehensive hosted payload support services for Caltech’s Space-based, Solar […]
European Space Agency (ESA) is developing space-based solar power plant plans
ESA has signed contracts for two parallel concept studies for commercial-scale, space-based, solar power plants, representing a crucial step in the agency’s new SOLARIS initiative — maturing the feasibility of […]
Momentus’ Vigoride OTV integrated with SpaceX Falcon 9 for December launch
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has completed the integration of the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) on the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle that will be used for the Transporter-6 mission […]