DARPA has a plan to keep geosynchronous satellites going for years beyond their expiration date. The agency aims to test it with a mission launching as soon as this summer.
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China has named the three astronauts due to fly on the Shenzhou 23 mission on Sunday (May 24), including Hong Kong’s first astronaut.
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Starship V3 led to some stunning launch photography after it lifted off from Starbase on SpaceX’s 12th flight of the rocket that aims to land astronauts on the moon.
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China’s Shenzhou 23 astronaut mission launched Sunday (May 24) to relieve an overdue crew on the Tiangong space station.
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SpaceX’s Starship V3, the most powerful rocket ever built, just roared off its launch pad in a spectacular show of power and technology.
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A sharp-eyed satellite captured an amazing photo of SpaceX’s first Starship V3 megarocket on the pad Thursday (May 21), just before it was supposed to lift off.
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This is part of an even-larger “restructuring” at NASA.
SpaceX says it will launch a private flyby mission to Mars that will be led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, but when it will fly is unclear.
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SpaceX’s new “V3” Starship megarocket was supposed to fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May 21), but technical issues nixed that plan.
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Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22).
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