This illustration shows how NASA's Psyche spacecraft will explore the asteroid Psyche, beginning with Orbit A when it arrives at the asteroid in early 2026. The initial orbit is designed to be at a high altitude – about 435 miles (700 kilometers) above the asteroid's surface.
Boeing wins $329 million contract to support orbiting GPS satellites - SpaceNews
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Boeing a $329.3 million contract to support operations of Global Positioning System satellites for the next 10 years.
The contract, announced Dec. 20, is for on-orbit support of GPS 2F satellites, manufactured by Boeing.
Bad Astronomy | Big exoplanet seen in image orbiting small star | SYFY WIRE
Artwork depicting a hot exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Astronomers have found a new exoplanet. Usually when I say "new" I mean new to us humans, but in this case it's also true that it's a new planet. It's less than 5 million years old, so in cosmic terms it's a wee baby .
The Russian Anti-Satellite Demonstration – a Month Later
On November 15, Russia demonstrated its ability to destroy an orbiting satellite, Cosmo 1408, by hitting with a direct-ascent rocket. In an earlier post , I noted the anti-satellite demonstration and speculated on why Russia may have done it and why the Chinese had not condemned it.
Liftoff! SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket With Dragon Spacecraft Blasts Off From Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida, on Dec. 21, 2021. This launch marks the company’s 24th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. Credit: NASA
Slated to dock with the International Space Station in a little less than 24 hours from now, Dragon will deliver more than 6,500 pounds of science and research experiments , crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbiting laboratory.
SpaceX aces 100th rocket landing after Dragon cargo ship launch to space station | Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched its 31st rocket of the year early Tuesday (Dec. 21), sending a used Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station before nailing the company's 100th landing.
A new two-stage Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Launch Complex 39A here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:07 a.m. EST (1007 GMT), kicking off the company's 24th cargo resupply mission to the orbiting lab for NASA.
Giant NASA Telescope To Open New Vistas Of Space - Texas A&M Today
A giant telescope to be launched into space this week will be the biggest ever and will orbit around the sun about 1 million miles from the Earth.
Nicholas Suntzeff, who has been involved with space research for 30 years and spent 20 years in Chile, where he helped co-discover dark energy , said that when NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency launch the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), named after a former
NASA released an audio track of Jupiter's moon Ganymede — and it sounds like R2-D2 - The
As it seeks answers about the cosmos and what they mean for Earth's origins, NASA on Friday announced a slew of discoveries about Jupiter. And scientists brought home an interstellar tune from the road.
The Juno spacecraft is gathering data about the origin of the solar system's biggest planet — in which more than 1,300 Earths could fit.
Japanese space tourists depart International Space Station
MOSCOW (AP) — A Japanese billionaire, his producer and a Russian cosmonaut departed the International Space Station and headed back to Earth, wrapping up the first visit by self-paying space tourists to the orbiting outpost in more than a decade.
Fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, his producer Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin boarded the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which undocked from the station at 2350 GMT Sunday.
Here's How Stars Orbit Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole - Nerdist
Black holes continue to amaze us for an endless number of reasons. The celestial objects are furious feasters of gas and they send ripples through the fabric of spacetime .
The above animation is based on images the space agency captured using its Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) array in Chile earlier this year. Those images showed stars S29 and S55 orbiting around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way .
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