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    Ax-4 “Go” For Wednesday Launch; Station Crew Keeps Up Research, Videography

    Axiom Space private astronaut and Axiom Mission-2 Commander Peggy Whitson enters the International Space Station shortly after the hatches were opened between the orbital outpost and the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft. Welcoming her inside the vestibule between the station's Harmony module and Dragon is NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio.

    Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) has been given the “go” to launch at 2:31 a.m. EDT on Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station. The four Ax-4 private astronauts will ride the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to low Earth orbit and dock to the orbital outpost’s space-facing port on the Harmony module at 7 a.m. on Thursday for a two-week research mission.

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    Protecting Wetlands in Southeast Asia Could Reduce Area’s Carbon Emissions

    As much as half of the carbon dioxide emissions that result from deforestation and other land-use changes in Southeast Asia could be reduced by saving two kinds of wetlands: peatlands and mangroves, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Wetlands store three to five times more carbon than tropical dryland forests and they absorb […]

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    Parker Solar Probe Completes 24th Close Approach to Sun

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 24th close approach to the Sun on Thursday, June 19, matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. Following this flyby — the last of the spacecraft’s baseline mission plan — Parker Solar Probe will remain in orbit around the Sun and […]

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    NASA CubeSat Focuses on Instrument Calibration Enhancement

    Illustration shows picture of Earth with a CubeSat reflecting off of the Moon and Sun

    Editor’s note: SpaceX is now targeting Monday, June 23 for the launch of the Transporter-14 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The 57-minute launch window opens at 2:18 p.m. PDT (5:18 p.m. EDT). NASA is preparing to launch a new lunar […]

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    NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Resumes Full-Time Propulsion

    NASA’s Psyche spacecraft resumed full thruster operations on June 16, and the propulsion system is performing as expected after mission engineers switched to a backup propellant line. They will operate the thrusters for the equivalent of three months between now and November to keep the orbiter’s trajectory to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche on track. Operation […]

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