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NASA Launches DART, to Learn how to Defend the Earth From a Future Asteroid Impact
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just launched and will intercept a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) in ten months!
SpinLaunch Hurls a Test Vehicle Kilometers Into the air. Eventually, it’ll Throw Them Almost all the way to Orbit
The commercial space company SpinLaunch just conducted its first successful launch test from their facility at Spaceport America.
NASA’s Mission to Visit 8 Asteroids, Lucy, Launches on October 16th
An early morning launch is planned for the Lucy spacecraft, the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Tomorrow,…
Landsat 9 Joins a Fleet of Earth Observation Satellites
Earth has a new eye in orbit to monitor our changing planet. Landsat 9 launched on September 27, 2021…
Pencil December 18th (tentatively) into your calendar. That’s when James Webb probably launches
You may have heard this one before, but encouraging news comes from NASA, ESA, and Arianespace today: they are now…
Russia’s new Module Kicks the Station out of Position, Causes a Delay for Starliner
The new Russian module temporarily kicked the ISS out of position, causing a delay for Boeing's Starliner mission.
Starliner Will try Again on August 3 After ISS “Emergency”
The planned launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) has been pushed back to…
Blue Origin’s Latest New Shepard Flight is a Success, With Passengers Climbing on Board (and Getting off Again Before it Flew)
Blue Origin is once again feeling momentum after the latest successful flight of their New Shepard launch vehicle.
SpaceX’s SN8 Starship Soars and Belly-Flops, but Fails to Stick the Landing. Oh Well, Bring on the SN9!
SpaceX launched the SN8 Starship prototype early today and while it failed to stick the landing, the flight was an…
China is Building a Floating Spaceport for Rocket Launches
China is almost finished its floating spaceport in the Yellow Sea, which will begin making regular launches and servicing rockets…