Space

NASA to Provide Update Today on Last Major Test Before Artemis Launch

NASA called off plans to load super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the fully-stacked Space Launch System moon rocket Sunday. The cryogenic tanking operation is part of a full-up countdown dress rehearsal ahead of the launch of unpiloted Artemis 1 moon mission.

On April 2, 1963, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 4 spacecraft. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.

The next two months or so promises to be an exciting one if you enjoy viewing close conjunctions between the major planets – and who doesn’t!

Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher lifted off from New Zealand at 8:41 a.m. EDT (1241 GMT) Saturday. The commercial small satellite launcher carried two remote sensing microsatellites into orbit for BlackSky.

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Bob Cabana are among the agency’s speakers at the Space Foundation’s 37th Space Symposium from Tuesday, April 5 to Thursday, April 7 in Colorado Springs, Colo.

A Rocket Lab Electron launcher lifted off Saturday (April 2) from the company’s New Zealand site, carrying two BlackSky Earth-observing satellites to orbit.

These behemoth binoculars are the largest in Celestron’s SkyMaster range, but are they the ultimate for astronomical and terrestrial use? Ade Ashford finds out.

SpaceX has raised a Falcon 9 rocket vertical on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for launch Friday at 12:24 p.m. EDT (1624 GMT) with 40 satellites to begin Earth-observing, communications, and technology demonstration missions. There’s a 60% chance that weather conditions will be favorable for launch Friday.

Why will Europa Clipper orbit Jupiter instead of Europa? Gary Duemling Prescott, Arizona NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is scheduled for launch in 2024, carrying 10 instruments that will assess the habitability of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The craft will follow up on discoveries by the Galileo mission of the 1990s, which […]