NASA’s Worldview app lets you explore Earth as it looks right now or as it looked almost 20 years ago.
Station Biomedical and Exercise Studies Impact Health on Earth and in Space
Biomedical research to improve health on Earth and in space dominated today’s science activities aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 55 crew is helping scientists from around the world understand how life shaped by gravity adapts to living in outer space. NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel joined forces today collecting and stowing …
Atlas V Prepared to Boost NASA’s InSight to Mars
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster and Centaur upper stage are lifted for positioning on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 3. The rocket will launch NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft for its trip to Mars. While processing …
TESS Spacecraft Embarks on Planet-hunting Mission
NASA will have a new tool in the search for habitable planets. The agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite was delivered to space this evening aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Launch occurred right on time at 6:51 p.m. EDT …
TESS Solar Arrays Drawing Power
The twin solar arrays on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite have deployed and are drawing power.
Spacecraft Sep! TESS is Flying Solo
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is flying free following an on-time liftoff and successful journey to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The spacecraft has separated from the rocket’s second stage. Once TESS deploys its twin power-producing solar arrays, it will spend the next two months climbing to its final orbit high …
Final Second-stage Burn Complete
The Falcon 9 rocket’s second-stage Merlin engine completed its brief burn – lasting just under a minute – positioning TESS for separation from the vehicle coming up.
Coast Phase Continues Following On-time Launch
The second stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the attached TESS spacecraft are in a coast phase following an on-time liftoff at 6:51 p.m. EDT. Coming up, the second-stage engine will ignite one more time at about 43 minutes into the flight. That burn, lasting only about a minute, will pave the way …
First Stage Lands Successfully; Second-stage Burn Complete
The Falcon 9 first stage completed its burn and has successfully landed on the SpaceX drone ship affectionately called, “Of Course I Still Love You,” which waited for it in the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the second stage’s first burn is complete and the vehicle has started a 32-minute coast phase. The payload fairing separated from the …
Liftoff!
Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s TESS spacecraft on a mission to help search for planets outside our solar system that could be capable of harboring life. The Falcon 9’s nine Merlin engines are generating more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust – providing the initial boost TESS needs to break the …