NASA Seeks Industry Feedback on Fission Surface Power
As part of the agency’s initiative to return humanity to the Moon and eventually send the first astronaut – an…
Tag: Spacecraft
NASA’s SpaceX-33 Resupply Mission Launches Research to Station
Research traveling to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX 33rd commercial resupply mission includes testing 3D bioprinting of an…
Hubble Delivers Best View Yet of Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Racing Through Solar System
Scientists have been able to see the most detailed image so far of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS thanks to the Hubble…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California
The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial…
NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agency’s…
NASA’s TRACERS Satellites Begin Solar Wind Study Despite SV1 Glitch
NASA’s TRACERS mission twin satellites were launched on July 23, 2025, to study how solar activity causes magnetic reconnection in…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Enters International Space Station, Joins Expedition 73
Expedition 73 welcomed Crew-11 in an early morning port visit at 3:46 a.m. EDT when the hatches between the International…
Rocket Lab Launches Kushinada-I Satellite to Orbit for Japan’s iQPS
In early August 2025, Rocket Lab successfully launched QPS-SAR-12 (nicknamed Kushinada-I), a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite built by Japan’s iQPS…
ESA JUICE Mission Scans Jupiter’s Lunar Crater in Test Run for Alien Life
One of history’s most famous space photographs transformed a lunar crater, and now it has shown researchers how to look…
Solar Sail Spacecraft Could Boost Space Weather Warnings by Nearly 60 Minutes
A potential new solar sail-powered satellite mission is offering an extended early warning of extreme space weather events to safely…