SpaceX gave an Italian radar satellite a picture-perfect ride into orbit with a memorable Monday evening launch from Cape Canaveral on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. A clear sunset sky offered spectators dazzling views of the reusable booster’s fiery climb into space and pyrotechnic plunge back to Earth.
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NASA Awards Contract for Custodial Services
NASA has selected Native Resource Development Company Inc. of Bernalillo, New Mexico, to provide custodial services at the agency’s Johnson Space Center, Ellington Field, and Sonny Carter Training Facility in Houston.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turns on cameras to look at first star target
Spacecraft controllers started powering up James Webb Space Telescope’s four cutting-edge instruments as they prepare to take test images of the first star.
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Venus burns bright with a lowly Mercury and Mars
At the start of February, Venus is a brilliant and beautiful ‘morning star’ that’s reasonably well placed in the pre-dawn sky on the south-eastern horizon.
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Cruise ship under rocket’s flight path forces another SpaceX launch scrub
A cruise ship that ventured under the planned flight path of a Falcon 9 rocket near Cape Canaveral Sunday forced SpaceX to delay launch of an Italian Earth-imaging satellite for a fourth time, setting up the mission for another try just after sunset Monday.
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Ancient solar storm smashed Earth at the wrong part of the sun’s cycle — and scientists are concerned
An extremely powerful solar storm pummeled our planet 9,200 years ago, leaving permanent scars on the ice buried deep below Greenland and Antarctica.
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Weather delays set up SpaceX for two weekend launches from Cape Canaveral
A blanket of thick clouds over Cape Canaveral Friday forced SpaceX to delay the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and an Italian radar remote sensing satellite until Saturday, setting up Florida’s Space Coast for launches on back to back days this weekend, with another SpaceX flight already booked on […]
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The Sky This Week: Look for the zodiacal light
After watching the crescent Moon parade past the planets, enjoy dark overnight skies from January 28 to February 4.
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NASA Awards Multiple Construction Contracts
NASA has awarded 12 construction contracts for work to be performed predominantly at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, and at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
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Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to sunset launch at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX plans to launch an Italian radar remote sensing satellite Friday at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT) after dismal weather at Cape Canaveral forced officials to scrub a launch opportunity Thursday. The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster will return to Florida’s Space Coast eight minutes later for landing.