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Space Coast looks toward the future with port and factory expansions
The space facilities around Cape Canaveral on Florida’s east coast are being prepared for a major ramp-up in flight activity over the coming months, years, and decades. This increase in spaceflight...
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How the Space Shuttle completed a final, daring Hubble repair 15 years ago
The Hubble Space Telescope continues to operate to this day in part due to the work performed 15 years ago by the crew of STS-125. Dubbed Hubble Servicing Mission 4 (HSM 4), scientists knew this would...
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Astronomers find an Earth-sized exoplanet around a tiny star and a large, but...
Astronomers from the Search for Planets Eclipsing Ultra-cool Stars (SPECULOOS) project found an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting an ultracool dwarf star about 55 light-years away. The team concluded that...
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Initial Gateway elements beginning systems integration while NASA works on a...
The two elements that will make up the initial Gateway capability for NASA’s Artemis campaign are getting ready for systems installations this year and next year, as the space agency reviews progress...
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Spitzer gives scientists insights into black hole eating habits
Using data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have gained new insights into the eating habits of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies throughout the universe. These...
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Launch Roundup: North Korean launch failure, Starliner CFT, EarthCARE
As the month of May transitions into June, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Earth’s clouds and aerosols as well as a Russian cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station...
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SpaceX has launched the EarthCARE climate research satellite for ESA and JAXA
The joint European-Japanese EarthCARE satellite has begun its mission to improve our understanding of Earth’s climate Tuesday, with a launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Space Launch...
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Magellan data unveils ongoing volcanic activity on the surface of Venus
In May 1989, NASA launched its Magellan mission to Venus with the goal of mapping the entire surface of the planet using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and measuring the planet’s magnetic field....
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Starship Gets Ready to Launch for a Fourth Time
SpaceX is preparing to launch the fourth flight of Starship on Thursday, during a two-hour window that opens at 7 AM central time. Booster 11 and Ship 29 are the pairing for the latest test flight,...
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9’s busy launch cadence continues
Following an extremely eventful week in Spaceflight, this coming week returns to “business as usual.” Two SpaceX Starlink missions, one each from Vandenberg and Florida, and a Falcon 9 launching a...
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Webb identifies surprising carbon-rich ingredients around young star
Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international scientists studied a disk of cosmic material surrounding an...
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Launch Roundup: Electron launches for the 50th time; Falcon 9 returns to...
Concluding a rare week that was void of any launches and riddled with scrubs, the spaceflight industry looks to return to the planned course of action with four launches from all over the world. This...
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Rocket Lab has launched its 50th Electron mission
Rocket Lab successfully launched its 50th Electron rocket June 20 at 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC). Launching from LC-1B on the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand, the mission included five satellites set to...
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NASA, NOAA launch GOES-U aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy
The final satellite of the GOES-R series of satellites, GOES-U, was launched on June 25 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, defying an initial unfavorable weather forecast that became 70 percent favorable as...
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Webb finds never-before-seen structures above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope, a group of scientists has discovered a variety of never-before-seen features in Jupiter’s...
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Firefly set to launch Alpha on Noise of Summer mission
After six months of preparation following its last flight, Firefly is ready to launch the Alpha rocket on its fifth mission no earlier than Monday, July 1, at 9:03 PM PDT (4:03 UTC). This mission,...
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SpaceX continues record-breaking year with Starship’s full success and Falcon...
SpaceX continues to break records with its Falcon rockets during 2024 completing to date a total of 67 missions so far and putting the company on track to complete 135 launches by the end of it. SpaceX...
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InSight reveals high meteoroid impact rate on Mars
Scientists have calculated the rate of meteoroid impacts on Mars using seismic measurements NASA’s retired InSight lander took during its mission. Two companion studies published on June 28,...
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Astronomers use Hubble to discover rare intermediate-mass black hole in Omega...
Using the joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope in low-Earth orbit, an international team of astronomers has discovered a rare black hole within Omega Centauri — the largest...
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New Glenn flight preparations in focus, Stoke Space moving in, SpaceX fleet...
Florida’s Space Coast is seeing continued activity behind the scenes to prepare for upcoming flights of New Glenn, Stoke Space’s Nova, ULA’s Atlas V, and the resumption of SpaceX Falcon 9 launches....
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