Astrobotic bid farewell to its Peregrine lunar lander on Thursday as the spacecraft plunged through Earth’s atmosphere, thereby preventing the failed mission from colliding into other spacecraft. China’s Plan to Land Astronauts on the Moon The Pittsburgh-based company lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. ET, with the spacecraft potentially performing a control reentry … Read more
Astrobotic’s Peregrine is gearing up for a chance to land on the Moon, hoping to become the first commercial lunar lander to touchdown on the dusty surface of the celestial body and pave the way for other private ventures to follow. China’s Plan to Land Astronauts on the Moon The lunar lander will ride on … Read more
Following a successful liftoff, Firefly’s Alpha rocket seems to have misplaced its payload due to a second stage anomaly. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope The small rocket launched on Friday, December 22, at 12:32 p.m. ET from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, called “Fly the Lightning,” was carrying a … Read more
Space is hard, as the cliché reminds us, and that was plenty clear this week, as several groups ran into trouble: NASA with its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, AstroForge with a struggling debut mission to prove asteroid mining can work, and a few missing-in-action satellites from a recent SpaceX launch. Back on Earth, doctors issued … Read more
A pair of spacecraft is undergoing final testing before a roughly 230 million mile journey to explore the Red Planet. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope This week, Rocket Lab announced that the two spacecraft it is building for NASA’s EscaPADE mission have gone into the system integration phase in preparation for launch in … Read more
After blasting beams of energy through the clouds for the past 17 years, NASA’s lidar satellite mission came to an end this past August, the agency has revealed. Meet Microsoft’s New Surface Laptops CALIPSO, a joint mission by NASA and the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), had exhausted its fuel reserves. Due to … Read more
Replace: August 29, 8:13 a.m. ET: ULA introduced final evening by way of an emailed assertion that the launch has been postponed indefinitely due to the approaching Hurricane Idalia, which was only in the near past upgraded from a tropical storm and is anticipated to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday morning. ULA additionally mentioned … Read more
An illustration of the ClearSpace-1 mission, which is about to launch in 2026.Illustration: ESA In a tragic case of debris-on-debris crime, a defunct payload adapter that was chosen as the topic of an area particles cleanup mission was itself hit by a bit of house junk. First Full-Colour Photos From Webb Area Telescope The VESPA … Read more
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission efficiently landed on the Moon on Wednesday, marking an enormous feat for the nation’s rising area program. First Full-Coloration Photos From Webb Area Telescope The Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover touched down on the lunar floor at 8:34 a.m. ET (6:04 p.m. native time in India), including India to a brief checklist of … Read more
An artist’s illustration of Lunar Flashlight throughout a trajectory correction manuever.Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech After NASA’s Moon-faring, water-hunting probe confronted an premature demise earlier than it was ever capable of attain its closing vacation spot, mission scientists have formally declared that clogged propellant strains led to the mission’s failure. Trump Went Via Twitter Withdrawal SpaceNews stories that … Read more