On the heels of Tuesday’s release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, data from the telescope’s commissioning period is now being released on the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes. The data includes images of Jupiter and images and spectra of several asteroids, captured to test the telescope’s …
SpaceX-25 (SpX-25) Mission Preparation: Today, a subset of the USOS crew are limited duty in order to prepare for the upcoming SpX-25 mission, which will dock on Saturday and requires bulk cargo unloading on Sunday. SpX-25 is planned to launch tonight at 7:44 pm CT (GMT 196) and will resupply the station with consumables, system …
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have commissioned an independent review to examine project and institutional issues that led to the Psyche mission missing its planned 2022 launch opportunity, and to review the mission’s path forward. The 15-member review board will be chaired by retired NASA official Tom Young and is slated to …
On April 10, 2022, NASA chartered an Independent Review Board to review the overall architecture and technical concept for NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation, or GDC – a mission to study how the giant magnetic bubble around Earth, the magnetosphere, interacts with Earth’s upper atmosphere.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m. EDT today, July 14, for SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply (CRS-25) launch to the International Space Station. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket and cargo Dragon spacecraft will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th …
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon cargo craft atop stands at the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More than 5,800 pounds of new science experiments and crew supplies are packed inside Dragon awaiting a liftoff tonight at 8:44 p.m. EDT. The U.S. commercial resupply ship will orbit Earth for a …
Scientists journeyed to Utqiaġvik, Alaska, where they installed automated sensors to capture the region’s seasonal green-up.
It takes a village to send something to space.
Teams with NASA and SpaceX completed the final major review before launch – the Launch Readiness Review – for the company’s 25th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. At the conclusion of the review, teams confirmed the target launch time of 8:44 p.m. EDT tomorrow, July 14. Tune in to the agency’s …
The color red claims everything in East Arnhem Land, Australia, where scientists have gathered to launch a sounding rocket.