The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A as the moon sets, predawn, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s cargo resupply mission will deliver over 5,100 pounds of science and research, supplies and hardware to the space station. To source
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaking with the National Reconnaissance Office employees Oct. 13. at NRO headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. PARIS — Statements attributed to SpaceX founder Elon Musk suggest he remains concerned that Falcon 9 rocket operations are vulnerable to attack by “a long list” of SpaceX adversaries even if it’s unlikely that such an […]
Imagine stepping outside on a clear day and looking up at the sun. However, that isn’t our sun; it appears much closer in the sky and, wait, if you squint, you can see there’s something not quite right about the light it’s emitting. This star appears to have vast, ominous dark patches shimmering against the bright […]
A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launches two astronauts into orbit aboard the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Oct. 17, 2016 (Beijing Time), kicking off a 30-day mission to the country’s new Tiangong-2 space laboratory module. WASHINGTON — China successfully launched its first human spaceflight mission in more than three years Oct. […]
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Space Science Image of the Week: A recent view of the Red Planet by ESA’s Mars Express workhorse, soon to be joined by ExoMars To source
Follow alongside Schiaparelli’s six-minute descent to the surface of Mars with this realtime animation To source
Mariner 10 took this photo of the southwest region of Mercury. Of all the planets in the solar system, Mercury has the thinnest atmosphere, thinner than even Mars. Several components are constantly replenished by the solar wind blowing off of the nearby sun. Atmospheric components Mercury is the smallest and least massive of the eight […]
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — We have liftoff! For the first time in two years, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket has successfully launched into space, departing NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility here this evening (Oct. 17) on a mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The upgraded Antares rocket soared into the night sky at 7:45 […]
By Steve Spaleta | October 17, 2016 07:45pm ET The Orbital ATK cargo spacecraft launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Oct. 17, 2016. This was the return to flight for the Antares rocket, which was redesigned after its last launch failure . credit : NASA Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – […]
A scientist in Finland has proposed a new theory about the source of the mysterious sounds associated with the northern lights, or aurora borealis. For more than 15 years, a lone scientist in southern Finland has spent countless winter nights among the snowy fields and frozen lakes around his village, in pursuit of one of […]
A European spacecraft destined to land on Mars detached from its mothership on Sunday (Oct. 16), setting the stage for a daring descent to the Red Planet’s surface later this week. The European Space Agency’s Mars-bound Schiaparelli module separated from its carrier craft — the Trace Gas Orbiter — at about 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT) as both spacecraft […]
After seven months of space travel, the European Schiaparelli spacecraft is only a couple days away from making its final decent to the surface of the Red Planet — and the stakes are high. The Schiaparelli lander — part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars 2016 mission to Mars — was launched into space […]