NASA Isn’t Giving Up on Troubled Water-Hunting Moon Cubesat
For nearly five months, teams behind NASA’s Lunar Flashlight mission have been trying to get the briefcase-sized satellite to fire up its thrusters and get on the right orbital track…
NASA Set to Launch Satellite Constellation to Better Track Extreme Storms From Space
NASA is finally, once again, scheduled to get its constellation of small, storm-monitoring satellites into space after a 2022 launch failure tanked two of the six planned cubesats. Launch of…
Startup’s Proposed Satellite Swarm Would Create 3D Maps of Earth’s Entire Surface
Satellites flying overhead in Earth’s orbit largely provide a two-dimensional view of our planet, but a Florida-based company is hoping to change that by using satellites to routinely build 3D…
The Most Mind-Blowing Images Ever Taken of Earth from Space
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Curiosity one-upped the Spirit rover by capturing a view of both Earth and the Moon, which it did on January 31, 2014. The image, captured by the NASA…
Engineers Might Have to Put a Struggling Artemis CubeSat Out of Its Misery
A shoebox-sized satellite may soon meet its untimely death after failing to fire its thrusters. The cubesat may have been compromised as it excessively waited for launch on board NASA’s…
This Week in Spaceflight: Spacewalks and Spacecraft Shuffling at the ISS
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will kick off another busy week in spaceflight when it launches from the company’s New Zealand site on Tuesday. Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When…
Key Instrument on Newly Launched Jupiter Probe Is Already Exhibiting Problems
The JUICE mission is at the very beginning of its eight-year journey to Jupiter and its moons, but one of its science instruments is already misbehaving. Astronomers Could Soon Get…
Reluctant Russia Promises to Keep Working On ISS Until 2028
Russia has agreed to keep its cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028 despite earlier threats to withdraw from the orbiting lab. Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings…
Jupiter Moon Probe Switches On Science Instrument for the First Time
An illustration of the JUICE spacecraft around Jupiter and its moons. Illustration: ESA It’s been less than two weeks since the European Space Agency’s (ESA) JUICE mission began its journey…
NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer
At 12 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) from Earth, Voyager 2 is so far that it takes more than 22 hours for NASA’s signals to reach the probe. With its…