Space Flight
Russian Rocket Fails During Launch, Explodes After Liftoff
At 2:38 UTC Tuesday morning (local time) a Russian Proton-M heavy lift rocket carrying three GLONASS navigation/positioning satellites exploded shortly after…
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Orion takes shape for 2014 Test Flight
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA is picking up the pace of assembly operations for the Orion capsule, America’s next…
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Opportunity Approaching Mountain Climbing Goal and Signs of Habitable Martian Environment
Opportunity rover captures spectacular view ahead to her upcoming mountain climbing goal, the raised rim of “Solander Point” at right,…
China’s Shenzhou-10 Crew Returns to Earth
China successfully completed its longest human space mission as the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and its crew of two men and one…
ISS Spacewalk Prepares for New Russian Laboratory
On Monday, two Russian cosmonauts conducted a 6-hour, 34-minute spacewalk to prepare for a new Russian module that will be…
NASA’s Daytime Dynamo Experiment Deploys Lithium to Study Global Ionospheric Communications Disruptions
On June 24, 2013 a pair of daytime sounding rockets will launch from NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) and deploy…
New Horizons Spacecraft ‘Stays the Course’ for Pluto System Encounter
Following an intense 18 month study to determine if NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft faced potentially destructive impact hazards during its…
Navigating the Solar System Using Pulsars as GPS
Picture the scene: It's the not too distant future and humanity has started to construct colonies and habitats all across…
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Spectacular Billion Pixel Panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover
This is a cropped, reduced version of panorama from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution…
Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts?
We love a good space debris mystery. Hey, who doesn't, right? Regular readers of Universe Today know that it’s a…