NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft aimed to orbit Mercury for the first time to hunt for clues of water on the tiny, innermost planet.
Satellite constellations are getting bigger and increasingly difficult for human operators to manage. Artificial intelligence will soon be able to help, but will the space industry let it happen?
On Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time on NASA’s Apollo 15 mission, one giant leap for live TV from the moon.
While testing a rocket on the launch pad at the U.K.’s SaxaVord Spaceport, RFA found ‘an issue with the vehicle that requires further investigation.’
On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA canceled the production of its Saturn V moon rocket, one year before the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, spelling the end of the Apollo program due to budget concerns.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 more of the company’s Starlink internet satellites from California’s central coast late on Friday night (July 31).
We just got an amazing new view of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle in space, thanks to one of the company’s Starlink V3 broadband satellites.
NASA is planning to send two maneuverable probes to lunar orbit in order to learn how spacecraft are affected by the complex gravity environment near the moon.
SpaceX used drones and a special ‘buoy cam’ to capture incredible footage of its Starship upper stage making a soft ocean landing after its 13th test flight on July 24.
NASA is using its Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory to develop the training programs it will use to prepare its astronauts to explore the lunar surface.