WITH A SPECTACULAR LIFTOFF, A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MISSION HEADS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. AND HERE THEY COME. CREW TEN, TAKING THEIR FIRST STEPS OUTSIDE ABOUT THREE HOURS BEFORE THEY GAVE ...
Since Callisto also has an intense ionosphere, the team decided to test their methods on 30-year-old measurements taken by NASA's Galileo mission. That mission launched in 1989 and scanned Jupiter ...
Early spacecraft typified some of these differences. The magnetometers carried by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft consisted of two different devices: a high-field magnetometer (to measure very ...
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions. transcript A SpaceX ...
"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...
But given that lunar spacecraft are solar-powered, how do they survive when they're cut off from the sun? For NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting the moon since 2009 ...
Winnebago-2 (W-2) capsule, the first commercial spacecraft to successfully land in Australia. Credit: Australian Space Agency A small space capsule made history recently when it became the first ...
The Dragon spacecraft for Crew-10 was swapped due to battery problems, and the replacement spacecraft also had thruster issues that needed to be addressed. SpaceX is reviewing data from the recent ...
On Sunday morning, a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace softly touched down on the surface of the Moon, making the Texas-based startup the second private company in history to pull off the feat.
Both spacecraft have three operational instruments, dropping to two in 2026. It is hoped that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will carry one operational instrument into the 2030s. Unforeseen circumstances ...
the team confirmed that LuGRE had successfully acquired and tracked GPS and Galileo signals on the moon’s surface. It even achieved a navigation fix—225,000 miles away from Earth. The mission ...
Two NASA astronauts who launched on a short mission to the International Space Station last year that turned into a 10-month marathon finally know when they'll be coming home. The Boeing Starliner ...