Astra reaches orbit for 1st time on test flight for US military
[ad_1] Astra has joined the orbital club. The Bay Area startup’s 43-foot-tall (13 meters) Launch Vehicle 0007 (LV0007) lifted off
Read more[ad_1] Astra has joined the orbital club. The Bay Area startup’s 43-foot-tall (13 meters) Launch Vehicle 0007 (LV0007) lifted off
Read more[ad_1] For today’s commercial space companies providing launch services to orbit, the name of the game is simple: “do it
Read more[ad_1] Astra aims to reach orbit for the first time early Friday morning (Nov. 19), and you can watch the
Read more[ad_1] SpaceX will try to fly a Starship to orbit for the first time early next year, if all goes
Read more[ad_1] Rocket Lab successfully launched two satellites into orbit and aimed to recover the mission’s booster, taking another step in
Read more[ad_1] Our closest stellar neighbor is Proxima Centauri, an M-type (red dwarf) star located over 4.24 light-years away (part of
Read more[ad_1] China’s Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has changed its orbit to begin a remote sensing survey of Mars after months
Read more[ad_1] Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. While scientists continue to hunt for clues of life
Read more[ad_1] Science & Exploration 09/11/2021 238 views 5 likes In brief ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet returned to Earth today alongside
Read more[ad_1] China sent new military satellites to orbit Wednesday (Nov. 3) for an undisclosed mission, following a lengthy launch delay.
Read more[ad_1] Blue Origin has certainly stepped up its game of late! After stepping down as the CEO of Amazon, Jeff
Read more[ad_1] Japan’s H-2A rocket launched a new navigation satellite into orbit on Monday (Oct. 25). The rocket lifted off from
Read more[ad_1] How do astronauts in space celebrate holidays and big moments? On Aug. 30, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur marked another
Read more[ad_1] Enabling & Support 22/10/2021 153 views 9 likes On this day, twenty years ago, ESA’s first small satellite, Proba-1 (Project
Read more[ad_1] ESA’s Proba-1 minisatellite was launched into orbit two decades ago today. It remains fully operational, however, making it the
Read more[ad_1] South Korea’s first launch of its new rocket, dubbed Nuri, seemed to go smoothly after liftoff Thursday (Oct. 21),
Read more[ad_1] A bus-sized asteroid made a harmless close pass by our planet on Sunday (Oct. 17). Asteroid 2021 TG14 passed
Read more[ad_1] A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian film crew docked at the International Space Station today (Oct. 5) after a
Read more[ad_1] How Mars Express works The main body of the orbiter is roughly cube-shaped, less than 2 meters (6 feet)
Read more[ad_1] NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid
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