TAMPA, Fla. — Europe’s new Vega-C medium-lift rocket lifted off on its maiden flight July 13, carrying an Italian physics satellite and six cubesats. The four-stage rocket launched from Kourou, French Guiana, at 9:13 a.m. Eastern on a mission that will last about two hours and 15 minutes. Italy’s 295-kilogram Laser Relativity Satellite-2, or LARES-2,
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GREENBELT, Md. — The James Webb Space Telescope, once an albatross around the neck of NASA, has become a symbol of the agency’s capabilities and potentially a tool to win support and funding for other programs. That transformation has become evident with the successful launch and commissioning of the $10 billion space telescope, culminating with
GREENBELT, Md. — NASA released the long-anticipated first science observations from the James Webb Space Telescope July 12, the culmination of decades of work and the start of a new era in astrophysics. The observations, released during an event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center here a day after the unveiling of one image at
Earlier this year, NASA put out a call for names for features on Pluto and its moons based on an established set of rules. Now, it’s finally time to put those names on the map. Proposed names for features on Pluto and its moons: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pz1AF-fe0TV9YcNl502ThK04hxigxtv04GqtJ380E3I/edit Thumbnail Credit: Lexicon ———- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following
WASHINGTON — Two upcoming Rocket Lab launches for the National Reconnaissance Office will send to orbit classified spy satellites that the U.S. intelligence agency developed jointly with the Australian government. The payloads on NROL-162 and NROL-199 are “designed, built, and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office in partnership with the Australian Department of Defence as
WASHINGTON — A test of the booster for SpaceX’s first orbital Starship vehicle July 11 ended with flames erupting unexpectedly from the base of the vehicle, triggering a fire at the pad. Video of testing activities at SpaceX’s Starbase complex at Boca Chica, Texas, showed a burst of flames at the base of the Super
WASHINGTON — A deep field of distant galaxies, some dating back to the first billion years after the Big Bang, is the first full-color image to come from the James Webb Space Telescope. The image, released at a White House event July 11 and called “Webb’s First Deep Field,” is a sneak preview of a
This week, some rather confusing news from the Moon, and details about how ordinary folks like you helped classify 2 million celestial objects in just five days! Volunteer for the next round of image classification! http://snapshotsupernova.org Annotations: Where Did the Moon Come From?: https://youtu.be/vRf-hB8X7b0 Water on Ganymede, and NASA Needs Your Help! : https://youtu.be/BhN6GQUuJsg ———-
Tory Bruno: ‘I think we’re really looking at a sea state change’ WASHINGTON — Some companies in the space industry may not survive the coming headwinds in the U.S. and global economies, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said July 11. “I think we’re really looking at a sea state change,” Bruno said at the
Anduril, Aalyria, Atlas Space and Enveil won contracts for the Defense Innovation Unit’s hybrid space architecture program WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit awarded contracts to Anduril, Aalyria Technologies, Atlas Space Operations and Enveil for a project that seeks to demonstrate a hybrid architecture where commercial, civil and military satellites can share data. DIU, based
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