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Lucy is off to Visit Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on its way. The spacecraft was launched into space on Saturday, October 16th on an Atlas…
Perseverance Rover is Getting Tucked Into its Launch Fairing
70 days from now, the next launch window to Mars opens. That's when NASA will launch their Perseverance Rover. New…
Is Time To Go Back to Uranus and Neptune? Revisiting Ice Giants of the Solar System
We’ve only seen Uranus and Neptune one time up close. There are now some mission ideas in the works that…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 453: Favorite Things We’ve Done These 10 Years
10 years of Astronomy Cast... wow. It's been a long, fun journey. What are some of our favorite episodes and…
New Soyuz Mission A Go After Technical Delays
After days of delay caused by a technical glitch, the Russian space agency has announced that the Soyuz SM-02 mission…
How Does a Rocket Work?
Rockets are the perfect way to get around in space. But how do they work? Space travel and rockets, it’s…
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 31, 2014: Bad Week in Space
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Ken Kremer (kenkremer.com /…
A History of Launch Failures: “Not Because They are Easy, but Because They are Hard”
Over the 50-plus years since President John F. Kennedy’s Rice University speech, spaceflight has proven to be hard. It doesn't…
Balloon launcher Zero2Infinity Sets Its Sights to the Stars
Clearly, the sky is not the limit for balloon launcher Zero2Infinity. Based in Barcelona, Spain, the company announced this week…
ESA Marks 50 Years of Cooperative Space Innovation
In 1964 the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) and the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) were founded, on February 29 and March…