SpaceX wants to start flying its Starship megarocket a lot more often. The company has requested permission to launch Starship from its Starbase site in South Texas up to 456 times per year. That’s a big jump from the currently allowed cadence of 25. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in the early stages…
Two student-built satellites launched on Tuesday to the International Space Station to take university engineering projects beyond the classroom and into orbit. The two CubeSats were part of more than 6,300 pounds of cargo that lifted off aboard the 35th SpaceX commercial resupply mission for NASA. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 6:33 a.m….
On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Chuck Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. Yeager made his historic flight in a Bell X-1 rocket plane that he named “Glamorous Glennis” after…
Progress on NASA’s Artemis III’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket continues at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where teams have completed the integration of the final solid rocket booster motor segments onto the mobile launcher for the “short stack” configuration that will be used during a tanking test. Teams also completed installation of all…
Starship just reached orbit for the first time, carrying satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink program. Analysts disagree on whether that’s a detour or the destination — and what of the company’s plans for the Red Planet? Ten years ago, Elon Musk stood on stage at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, and unveiled plans…
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is orbiting Earth on its way to the International Space Station for a docking on Thursday. The Expedition 75 crew members are preparing for Dragon’s arrival while also conducting eye checks, maintaining spacesuit gear, and practicing innovative robotics solutions aboard the orbital outpost. Flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Joshua…
NASA’s SpaceX 35th Commercial Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking – YouTube Watch On A Dragon is closing the gap between itself and its destination after a more than two-day-long orbital pursuit. SpaceX’s cargo Dragon, flying the CRS-35 (35th Commercial Resupply Services) mission for NASA, is scheduled to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) this…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team completed a marathon of activities to fine-tune the observatory’s vision and prepare the primary instrument for routine use. “All of Roman’s sweeping surveys will rely on the Wide Field Instrument,” said Dave Hickey, a Wide Field Instrument systems engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland….
On September 14, SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy rocket reached orbit for the first time, seven years later than originally touted, continuing its slow progress in building a Lunar Starship ready to land Artemis astronauts on the Moon for NASA. As Marcia Smith reported, the orbital flight was shorter than planned but SpaceX did manage to…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team completed a marathon of activities to fine-tune the observatory’s vision and prepare the primary instrument for routine use. “All of Roman’s sweeping surveys will rely on the Wide Field Instrument,” said Dave Hickey, a Wide Field Instrument systems engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland….
