Preparations for NASA’s next Artemis flight recently took to the seas as a joint NASA and Department of Defense team, led by NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, spent a week aboard […]
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SpaceX declares Starlink Group 11-17 launch delay again of 21 smallsats including 13 Direct to Cell until Saturday
SpaceX is targeting Saturday, April 12 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities to complete a smallsat constellation, to low-Earth orbit […]
SpaceX ready to launch Starlink Group 11-17 with 21 smallsats including 13 Direct to Cell on Thursday
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, April 10 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities to complete a smallsat constellation, to low-Earth orbit […]
Russia to launch NASA’s American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to ISS
On April 7 the Russian Federal Space Agency’s (ROSCOSMOS) Soyuz MS-27 will launch Soyuz 2.1a, at 10:47 PM PDT into low Earth orbit carrying two cosmonauts and one astronaut to […]
Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, asteroid Bennu. This discovery offers key […]
Viasat’s contract with ATLAS Space Operations to provide NASA with mission-critical support
ATLAS Space Operations has been contracted by Viasat, Inc., a global leader in satellite communications, to help provide mission-critical support to ongoing and future NASA missions. As one of four […]
SpaceX welcomes and celebrates successfully rescuing NASA’s stranded astronauts
After 171 days in space, Dragon and Crew-9 NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Rocosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin returned to Earth and splashed down […]
SpaceX to complete full circle delivering NASA’s astronauts and returning two after a prolonged ordeal
SpaceX and NASA are targeting Tuesday, March 18 at 1:05 a.m. ET for Dragon to autonomously undock from the International Space Station. After performing a series of departure burns to […]
SpaceX sends NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts to ISS with two returning home after an unscheduled prolonged stay
On Friday, March 14 at 7:03 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s tenth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-10) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s […]
Meet NASA’s Crew-10 crew members
NOTE: Statement from NASA released Wednesday, March 12.Tonight’s mission to the International Space Station will be a first for some of the members of Crew-10. Born in Spokane, Washington, this […]