Space

(Editor’s note: This article was first published on The Conversation.) When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a family member who saw a comet before you were born, or you may have seen one yourself when comet Nishimura passed […]

NASA is calling on innovators to help solve some of the challenges in rapidly testing technology payloads across a wide range of commercial flight vehicles and test environments. As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, the agency is making increased use of commercial suborbital vehicles, spacecraft, and lunar […]

Lunar dust can be a hazard for off-world rovers — so scientists are suggesting we create a road system on the moon.

It’s not just observing star clusters or planets that creates delight. Celestial knowledge can be just as exciting, especially when it comes with weighty implications. This month, let’s consider 10 basic astronomy truths. Perhaps you already know some of these facts — after all, I’ve explored about half of them […]

Failure analysis determines what, why and how things went wrong when a component, system, or structure fails and  is a valuable tool in the development of new products and the improvement of existing ones.   Our multi-disciplined team has the expertise and in-house capabilities to determine the root cause of […]

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites, delayed by upper level winds and held up for the Falcon Heavy launch of NASA’s Psyche, is scheduled to liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s pad 40 at 7:01 p.m. EDT (2301 UTC) on Friday night.

Happy eclipse day! Here’s a guide to the 2023 “Ring of Fire” annular eclipse, which begins at 11:04 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Oct. 14. We’ve included details in this article on the best places to see the eclipse and what exactly it is. If you just want the TL/DR version, […]

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NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid has lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is occurred at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 UTC) Friday.

UPDATE: NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft at 10:19 am EDT on Oct. 13 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The original launch was delayed because of inclement weather. Psyche’s goal is to perform 21 months of science, visiting the strange, metallic asteroid that bears the same name. Asteroid 16 Psyche orbits […]