The historic first attempt to launch satellites from British soil reached space late last night, but ultimately fell short of reaching its target orbit. After successfully taking off from the runway at Spaceport Cornwall – which just a few weeks ago was transformed from a mere slab of empty cement at a commercial airport to…
NASA and Roscosmos are working out how to get two cosmonauts and an astronaut back home after their spacecraft sprung a leak. Three residents of the International Space Station are facing an uncertain future after a Russian Soyuz capsule sprung a dramatic coolant leak last month that has left the craft’s spaceworthiness in doubt. NASA…
NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California were unable to contact the lander after two consecutive attempts, leading them to conclude the spacecraft’s solar-powered batteries have run out of energy – a state engineers…
A decision is yet to be made about how exactly the three crew members will be brought back to Earth. Russia’s space agency says it is considering sending an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) to bring home three crew members ahead of schedule, after their Soyuz capsule started leaking. The leak started…
Italy’s Vega rockets have been grounded and an investigation is under way after the latest model failed on its second mission, destroying two Earth-imaging satellites and further complicating Europe’s access to space on top of the war in Ukraine. Launch firm Arianespace said on Wednesday a “serious anomaly” occurred two minutes and 27 seconds after…
Engineers from Russia and the US are investigating a coolant leak on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which is docked at the International Space Station. A planned spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts has been called off after ground teams noticed a significant leak from one of the spacecraft docked at the orbiting International Space Station. The…
The spaceship, which has been on a three-week journey around the Moon, is targeting a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California. The parachute-assisted drop into the sea should occur at about 09:40 local time (17:40 GMT). The incoming velocity will be extremely high. The capsule will be moving at 40,000km/h (25,000mph) – or 32…
NASA released a stunning picture took from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft’s solar arrays. On Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth during the Artemis I mission—268,563 miles away from our home planet, farther than any spacecraft designed to send humans to space and back has…
Nasa has confirmed the recovery of debris from the Challenger spaceship that exploded less than two minutes after its launch and killed all seven members onboard in 1986. In Thursday’s announcement, the space agency said the “artifact” was discovered by a film crew that was in search of aircraft from the second world war off…
During Artemis I, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will send the agency’s Orion spacecraft on a trek 40,000 miles beyond the Moon before returning to Earth. To capture the journey, the rocket and spacecraft are equipped with cameras that will collect valuable engineering data and share a unique perspective of humanity’s return to the…
NASA’s next-generation Artemis rocket lifts off on test flight to moon. NASA’s towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday on its debut flight, a crewless voyage inaugurating the U.S. space agency’s Artemis exploration program 50 years after the final Apollo moon mission. The 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket surged off…
After a 4-month journey through space, the NASA microwave-oven sized CubeSat should have now entered the unique elongated orbit that will be used by future lunar space station. The CAPSTONE mission operations team confirmed that NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft arrived at its orbit at the Moon Sunday evening. The CubeSat completed an initial orbit insertion maneuver,…