Earth from Space
Join us Tuesday, 22 November at 14:00 CET for a special interview with ESA’s Valerie Fernandez and Paolo Laberinti from the Sentinel-2B cleanroom in ESTEC To source
Mars or Bust! 'South Park' Kids Visit SpaceX HQ
Cartman and his girlfriend, Heidi, visit SpaceX headquarters in an attempt to catch the next spaceship to Mars. Cartman and his girlfriend, Heidi, visited SpaceX headquarters in last week’s episode of “South Park,” eager to get on the first crewed spaceship heading for Mars. In the episode, which aired on Comedy Central on Wednesday (Nov. […]
Telling Time in a Flash: Optical Clock Tested in Space for 1st Time
Researchers have reported results from the first optical clock ever to fly in space. Here, a view of Earth from the research rocket it rode on shows the detachment of the final booster, when the clock began to run in microgravity. Researchers have tested optical clock technology in space for the first time, showing that […]
Extraterrestrial Gold Rush: What's Next for the Space Mining Industry?
An illustration of Deep Space Industries’ small Firefly-class Archimedes spacecraft for asteroid exploration. The small probes are designed for one-way trips to investigate asteroid targets for potential mining. HOUSTON — If humans eventually want to become a space-faring species, we’ll need to be able to collect basic resources, like water, straight from the space environment; […]
NASA Loans Lunar Landing 'Flying Bedstead', Shuttle Transport for Display
Workers move NASA’s Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) into the Air Force Flight Test Museum in California. Two NASA artifacts that were used to help astronauts who were landing from space, albeit on two different worlds in two different eras, have themselves landed at a museum near where they were last used. A Lunar Landing […]
Centre of curvature
Space Science Image of the Week: Measuring the shape of the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror To source
NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres
The strange bright spots of Occator Crater on the dwarf planet Ceres are unmistakable in this spectacular photo by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft taken on Oct. 17, 2016 and released on Nov. 18 as Dawn moves into a higher orbit. NASA’s Dawn probe is snapping stunning new views of the dwarf planet Ceres as the spacecraft […]
Welcome aboard
Thomas Pesquet, Oleg Novitsky and Peggy Whitson arrive at the International Space Station To source
Docking replay
Thomas Pesquet and crewmates arrive at the International Space Station, aboard Soyuz MS-03 To source
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrives at the International Space Station
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky docked with the International Space Station today after a two-day flight in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft. To source
GOES-R Weather Satellite Ready For Launch
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and its GOES-R payload at the launchpad as preparations continue for launch at 5:42 p.m. EST, Saturday, Nov. 19, from Space Launch Complex 41. To source
Powerful Next-Gen Weather Satellite Launches to Begin Forecasting 'Revolution'
A powerful new satellite that will give forecasters their best-ever looks at storms and other severe weather has taken to the skies. The GOES-R weather satellite lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today (Nov. 19) at 6:42 p.m. EST (2342 GMT), riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to orbit. The spectacular […]
New Space Station Crew Arrives as Weather Satellite Launches Today: Watch Live
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying the NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather satellite, is rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 ahead of a planned Nov. 19, 2016 launch. Space fans can catch a double dose of action in quick succession this afternoon […]