Author: The Yomiuri Shimbun The science and technology ministry is drafting a policy in which the private sector will participate in the building and management of the successor to the […]
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA to cover the 31st SpaceX Resupply Mission ISS departure
NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, December 5th, for its […]
SpaceX’s CRS-31 mission launches much needed supplies to ISS for NASA’s astronauts
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched CRS-31, NASA’s re-supply mission to the astronauts on the International Space Station on Monday, November 4, at 9:29 p.m. ET. This was Dragon’s 31st Commercial Resupply […]
NASA’s 24th anniversary celebrates a “permanent human presence in space”
NASA officials noted that Saturday marked the 24-year anniversary of the agency and its partners maintaining a permanent human presence in space. “To put this in perspective, this means that […]
SpaceX orders “Hold, hold, hold” at two minutes left and scrubs Starlink Group 6-77 due to helium leak
All ready to launch SpaceX’s Starlink Group 6-77 of 23 smallsats on Sunday, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, when the call came to scrub with […]
SpaceX plans three launches in two days
SpaceX is really ramping up with ambitious plans to have three launches in two days beginning with: Launch 1: Sunday, November 3, Starlink group 6-77 of 23 Starlink smallsats from […]
SpaceX’s Dragon’s journey to return Crew-8 astronauts from ISS after many delays
Dragon and Crew-8 autonomously undocked from the International Space Station at 5:05 p.m. ET on Wednesday, October 23. After performing a series of departure burns to move away from the […]
New ISS EO tech to expand insights
With its unparalleled view of Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) is about to take its environmental monitoring to new heights — an ISS National Laboratory®-sponsored payload, engineered by Airbus U.S. Space […]
SpaceX, at zero to 4,000 mph in less than three minutes, begins NASA’s Crew-9 astronauts’ journey on way to ISS
Cape Canaveral’s weather cooperated on September 28, despite hurricane Helene, making it possible at 1:17 ET for SpaceX to send NASA’s Crew 9 astronauts, NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and […]
SpaceX’s Saturday launch of the Crew-9 astronauts’ mission tenuous due to Helene
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Saturday, September 28, at 1:17 p.m. EDT due to Tropical Storm Helene, for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s ninth operational human spaceflight […]