NASA / Glenn Benson Artemis I Rocket, Spacecraft Prepare for Return to Launch Pad to Finish Test (News Release) Since returning to the Vehicle Assembly Building, ground systems teams have worked to prepare the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS)…
Rocket Lab catches falling booster with helicopter, then drops it
Rocket Lab’s latest Electron mission successfully deployed 34 satellites into orbit this week. And as the rocket’s first stage booster parachuted back to Earth, the company used a helicopter to latch onto the parachute line. The helicopter pilots, not…
The Station Changes Command as Crew-3 Prepares to Depart – Space Station
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn handed over command of the International Space Station to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev in a traditional Change of Command ceremony today ahead of Crew-3’s departure tonight. Credit: NASA TV. NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn handed over command…
Conjunción de Venus y Júpiter antes del amanecer
Este fin de semana ha estado pasado por nubes y una fuerte calima que nos ha impedido salir con los telescopios a aprovechar el novilunio una vez más pero afortunadamente el domingo por la mañana estuvo lo suficientemente despejado para…
NASA wants your input on its Mars sample return project
NASA is asking the public to comment on an environmental assessment for its Mars sample return effort. The project, a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), aims to bring to Earth samples gathered by the Perseverance Mars rover, perhaps…
Space Solar Power Symposium 2022
Space Solar Power Symposium 2022 at ISDC May 26-27. Full schedule below. On behalf of the National Space Society (NSS), we invite you to participate in the Space Solar Power Symposium of the 40th Annual International Space Development Conference® (ISDC®…
10 New Merger Events in Gravitational-Wave Data – Sky & Telescope
Simulated image of the merger of a black hole binary. SXS Lensing The united LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) collaborations have so far tallied 90 gravitational-wave events, almost all of which were the merger of two black holes. Of the…
Cosmonauts Set Up Robotic Arm’s First Motion, Wrap Up Spacewalk – Space Station
Spacewalkers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev monitor the station’s new European robotic arm as it moves on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk outside of the International Space Station…
How to Observe and Measure Naked-eye Sunspots – Sky & Telescope
Sunspot groups freckle the Sun in this photo taken with a 94-mm refracting telescope on April 21, 2022. Both lead spots in Active Regions 2993 and 2994 were visible without optical aid through a #14 welding glass. North is up.Bob…
NASA Space Station Status Report 26 April, 2022 – SpaceX Crew-4 Poised for Early Morning Launch
Now that Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) crew is safely back on Earth it’s time for the SpaceX Crew-4 mission to depart to the International Space Station. On-Orbit Status Report Payloads: Dose Distribution Inside the ISS – 3D (DOSIS-3D): DOSIS passive…