Recently, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-1) spacecraft, were encapsulated inside the payload fairing…
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Virgin Galactic to launch ‘Purdue 1’ human spaceflight in 2027
The university known as the cradle of astronauts will soon send a few more folks to the final frontier. Twenty-eight alumni of Indiana-based Purdue have flown to space or been…
Hubble images celestial cigar’s smoldering heart
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the central region of spiral galaxy Messier 82. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. D. Vacca This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new…
‘If it’s possible, it must be done’: Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has his eyes on missions to Mars and Venus
Rocket Lab wants to bring NASA’s Perseverance rover samples back from Mars. As interest in Mars Sample Return (MSR) resurfaces, Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck says his company…
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site
Volunteers search for meterorites in February 2023 in Angiens, France. With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere and sent…
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast (video)
SpaceX launched its 119th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Sept. 21), sending another batch of its Starlink internet satellites aloft from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket…
Astronaut Chris Hadfield explores murder in space in new Cold War space thriller ‘Final Orbit’ (exclusive)
Launching back to the historic Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975, a new space thriller titled “Final Orbit” arrives next month from New York Times bestselling author, TV host, YouTube sensation, TED…
