Tag Archives: Spaceflight

[ad_1] An exhaust plume erupted from the Falcon 9 launch pad when the rocket fired on Wednesday at 10 am EDT (1400 GMT). Credit: William Harwood / CBS News A brief test …

[ad_1] Tucked inside the front cone of its Delta 4-Heavy launcher, Parker Solar Probe is leaving its processing facilities in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer / kenkremer.com / spaceupclose.com NASA's Parker Solar …

[ad_1] A Falcon 9 rocket takes off at 1h50 EDT (0550 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX An improved model of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was launched early Sunday from the …

[ad_1] SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is expected to take off from Cape Canaveral on Monday, heading east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Telstar 19 VANTAGE telecommunications satellite in orbit around …

[ad_1] The Crew Dragon spacecraft was scheduled to fly on the first orbital flight test of SpaceX's commercial crew, with no astronauts on board, arriving at Cape Canaveral this week. Credit: SpaceX …

[ad_1] Artist concept of the Kepler Observatory. Credit: NASA Almost a decade after the launch of Cape Canaveral for a planet quest that identified 2,650 new worlds beyond our solar system, NASA's …

[ad_1] EDITOR'S NOTE: Updated at 0145 GMT (9:45 pm EDT) after docking. A Soyuz-2.1a booster took off Monday at 21:51:34 (17:51 EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: TV Roscosmos Russian …

[ad_1] Photo of a Falcon 9 rocket propeller landing at the Cape Canaveral, Florida Air Station. Credit: SpaceX A recent federal regulatory filing by SpaceX suggests that the company may attempt to …

[ad_1] This mosaic of a prominent mound located on the west side of Cerealia Facula was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 22, 2018, at an altitude of about 21 miles …

[ad_1] The Dragon spaceship approaches the International Space Station on Monday, flying over the Nile Delta in Egypt. Credit: NASA / Ricky Arnold A commercial cargo carrier owned and operated by SpaceX …