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,…
Teams conduct check-outs, preparations ahead of next Artemis I launch attempt. NASA continues to target launch of its Artemis I mission from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:04 a.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 16. There is a two-hour launch window for the agency’s first integrated flight test of its Space Launch System (SLS)…
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.…
Stunning pictures of the Space X’s launch have been taken from a C-17 cockpit over the Atlantic. SpaceX’s launch of 52 more Starlink satellites was visible all along the East Coast of the United States, generating footage of Saturday’s sunset launch. The crew of an US Air Force C-17 was able to take pictures of…
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission will launch on the first Space Launch System rocket and its Orion spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 29. Artemis 1, the first uncrewed test flight of NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon, is currently scheduled to lift off from Pad 39B of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral…
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 19, to announce regions near the lunar South Pole the agency has identified as potential areas for astronauts to land as part of the Artemis III mission, targeted for 2025. This will be the first time astronauts will set foot on the Moon…