Satellites
Iridium NEXT Set to Begin Deployment This Year
The skies, they are uh changin’… I remember reading in Astronomy magazine waaaay back in the late 1990s (in those…
Returning the “Silent Sentinel” to Active Duty
Situated on the south shore of New Jersey’s Shark River lies 37 acres of land known as Camp Evans. On…
Getting Ready For International Space Station Observing Season
The summer season means long days and short nights, as observers in the northern hemisphere must stay up later each…
Watch Jupiter Get Blasted by an Iridium Flare
Cue the "Space Invaders" sound effects! We've shared previously how astrophotographer Thierry Legault will travel anywhere to get a unique…
2nd Launch Disaster in 3 Weeks Strikes Russia, Destroying Proton Rocket and Mexican Comsat
Russian Proton rocket blasts off at 11:47 a.m. local time (1:47 a.m. EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan but…
Adventures in Satspotting: Why Are Different Orbits Needed for Satellites?
Congratulations: perhaps you’re a new space-faring nation, looking to place a shiny new payload around the planet Earth. You’ve assembled…
- Astronomy
- Atlas V
- Atmosphere
- Charles Bolden
- Earth
- Earth Observation
- Kennedy Space Center
- Missions
- NASA
- Satellites
- Science
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- United Launch Alliance
- Vertical Integration Facility
NASA Unravels Mysteries of Magnetic Reconnection with Nighttime Blastoff of MMS Satellite Quartet – Watch Live
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - A state of the art quartet of identical science satellites aimed at unraveling the mysteries…
- Atlas V
- Charles Bolden
- Earth
- Earth Observation
- Kennedy Space Center
- NASA
- Satellites
- Science
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
- United Launch Alliance
- Vertical Integration Facility
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Spacecraft Set for March Blastoff to study Earth’s Magnetic Reconnection Events
NASA’s first mission dedicated to study the process in nature known as magnetic reconnection undergoing final preparation for launch from…
Here’s a Better Use for Fighter Jets: Launching Satellites
For decades, the human race has been deploying satellites into orbit. And in all that time, the method has remained…
- Climate
- Commercial Space
- Earth
- Earth Observation
- Environment
- Falcon 9
- Kennedy Space Center
- Launches
- Missions
- NASA
- Satellites
- Science
- Solar Astronomy
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Exploration Technologies
- SpaceX
Space Weather Storm Monitoring Satellite Blasts off for Deep Space on SpaceX Rocket
After a 17 year long wait, a new American mission to monitor intense solar storms and warn of impeding space…