SpaceX plans to launch its flagship megarocket Starship for the first time. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to make its first attempt to launch its huge Starship rocket into space, marking what could be an important milestone in the billionaire’s bid to carry astronauts to Mars. SpaceX is now targeting 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT/8…
Watch launch of Europe’s first-ever Jupiter space probe. On April 13, 2023 at 09:15 a.m. local time (12:15 p.m. UTC), Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 mission will lift off from Europe’s Spaceport, French Guiana, with the JUICE space probe. JUICE will carry the most powerful scientific payload ever flown to the outer Solar System. It consists…
Three crew members aboard the International Space Station take a short trip to relocate the spacecraft. The crew members aboard the International Space Station take a short trip inside the Soyuz MS-23 beginning at 8:15 UTC on Thursday, April 6, to relocate the spacecraft from one parking place to another. Undocking is scheduled at 08:45…
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The agencies revealed the crew members Monday during an event at Ellington Field near…
Crew members assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission are in orbit following their successful launch to the International Space Station at 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The international crew are the agency’s sixth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX aboard the orbital laboratory. A SpaceX…
Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday the three astronauts who were left stranded by a pressure leak in their return capsule last year will be able to return on the Soyuz MS-23 replacement capsule in September 2023. Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio flew to the ISS in…
An “external impact” caused a coolant leak from an uncrewed Russian supply ship that is docked at the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s space agency announced. The leak from the Progress MS-21 cargo ship was spotted on February 11 and followed a similar leak from a Soyuz crew capsule in December. Russian space officials said…
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…