SpaceX is progressing toward Starship’s next big test launch.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two cosmonauts launched toward the International Space Station atop a Russian rocket at 10:47 a.m. EDT on Tuesday (July 14), and docked just three hours later.
NASA has begun assembling segments of the SLS solid rocket boosters that will help launch astronauts on Artemis III as early as next year.
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than July 16 for the next launch of its massive Starship rocket. Flight 13 will be the second launch of the vehicle’s Version 3 configuration and will be similar to the mostly successful Flight 12.
Backed by a $1.1 billion valuation, Skyroot Aerospace is betting that its Vikram-1 rocket can help transform India’s commercial launch industry. And Vikram-1 is set to fly soon.
“The debris in geosynchronous orbit is a potential minefield.”
Reflect Orbital just got approval to launch its first light-directing space mirror, which it plans to do later this year. Tens of thousands more such craft could follow over the next 10 years.
The Artemis II astronauts made an impact on potentially hundreds of millions of people during their mission, according to NASA figures.
A new dog collar with GPS tracking enabled by SpaceX’s Starlink direct-to-mobile network promises connectivity from almost anywhere.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study UFOs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, as they’re now known.