[ad_1] Private Spaceflight Company Rocket Lab has selected the US launch site for NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, located in Wallops Island, Virginia. The company disclosed the decision on October 17, 2018. Credit: …
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[ad_1] DOSSIER – In this January 21, 2018 photo provided by Rocket Lab, an electron rocket carrying a small payload of approximately 150 kilograms (331 pounds) takes off from the Mahia Peninsula …
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[ad_1] A state-of-the-art US military communications satellite flew into space at midnight on Wednesday (October 17th), lighting the skies over Florida as it went into orbit. An Atlas V rocket from the …
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[ad_1] Artist's illustration of the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with its supposed moon, which would have the size of Neptune. The researchers say that this candidate Moon, and others, could host their own satellites. …
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[ad_1] The Japanese startup, ispace, which has great ambitions to create a lunar base, says that it associates with three other aerospace companies to conduct regular missions on the moon's surface for …
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[ad_1] NASA has launched a pilot program to assess how the Earth's scientific data from commercial small satellite constellations could complement the observations of the Earth Science mission fleet in orbit of …
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[ad_1] World Space Week begins today, Thursday, October 4 – a series of world events organized by the United Nations. This year's theme is "Space Unites the World". Three new reports released …
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[ad_1] In July, NASA astronauts on the International Space Station deployed a small satellite called RainCube that monitors storms and sends information about them to researchers. The small CubeSat returned his first …
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[ad_1] The same storm captured by RainCube is seen here in the infrared of only one meteorological satellite, the GOES (Geoweather Operational Environmental Satellite) of the NOAA. Credit: NOAA How many times …
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[ad_1] The European warhorse Ariane 5 launched its 100th launch tonight (25 September), carrying two communications satellites in orbit in a dramatic outburst. An undisclosed problem ended the countdown 94 seconds before …
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