ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX Pushes Starship to New Extremes During Dramatic Fourth Flight Test The latest test of the experimental megarocket broke new ground, including a successful soft landing of the booster in the Gulf of Mexico. By Passant Rabie Updated June 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Pesky Glitch Forces NASA to Change the Way Hubble Works, and It’s Not for the Better The aging telescope will now resort to using one gyroscope, which will add extra time when locking onto new targets. By Passant Rabie Published June 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight A Parachute Failed to Deploy During Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Comeback Mission On May 19, during its first crewed flight in two years, one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate, prompting an investigation. By Passant Rabie Published June 4, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Chinese Probe Heads Back to Earth With Samples From the Moon’s Mysterious Far Side China is aiming to become the first nation to return rock and dust from the lunar far side. By Passant Rabie Published June 4, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Boeing’s Beleaguered Starliner Finally Blasts Off With NASA Astronauts on Board A Starliner crew has finally made it to space, but the big challenges for Boeing's spacecraft are yet to come. By Passant Rabie Updated May 31, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX Launch Targets Safe Reentry of Starship Megarocket—If It Doesn’t Explode First For the upcoming fourth mission, SpaceX aims to demonstrate key capabilities of the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, including successful reentry. By George Dvorsky Published May 31, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Venus’ Only Active Probe Mysteriously Falls Silent The Japanese mission has been orbiting the planet for nearly a decade to study its weather patterns. By Passant Rabie Published May 31, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight What to Know About World’s First Wooden Satellite, Set to Launch This Year Japan's wooden satellite could solve the space trash problem by burning up completely on re-entry, leaving no debris and reducing environmental impacts. By Passant Rabie Published May 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Boeing’s Starliner Is Leaking Gas but Will Still Launch With NASA Astronauts The company has chosen not to repair a small helium leak in the spacecraft's service module ahead of the scheduled launch of its first crew to orbit. By Passant Rabie Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Chinese Spaceplane Releases Mysterious Object in Orbit Months After Launch There's been very little information shared about the orbital vehicle, which launched in December 2023 for its third secretive mission. By Passant Rabie Published May 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Botched SpaceX Engine Test Results in Spectacular Fireball Yesterday's test of an upcoming Raptor engine went sideways, causing the test stand to be engulfed in flames. By George Dvorsky Updated May 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Bold Plan to Build the First Railway on the Moon The proposed maglev system could be the key to sustaining human life on the lunar surface. By Passant Rabie Updated May 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Bezos’ Space Tourism Venture Set for Restart After Explosion Forced 2-Year Hiatus Blue Origin will launch its first crew of astronauts since a liftoff malfunction grounded its New Shepard rocket in 2022. By Passant Rabie Published May 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Orbital Paparazzi Captures a Sneaky Picture of the ISS The non-Earth imaging satellite was less than 50 miles away from the space station when it snapped the shot. By Passant Rabie Published May 17, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Possible SpaceX Debris Crashes Onto Canadian Farm The farmer who found the giant piece of burned metal is looking to sell it to help build a hockey rink in his hometown. By Passant Rabie Published May 16, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Europa’s Icy Crust Is ‘Free-Floating’ Across the Moon’s Hidden Ocean, New Juno Images Suggest Europa's outer ice shell is not where it used to be, but instead may be free floating across the moon. By Passant Rabie Published May 16, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Twin Probes Suffer Thruster Glitch on the Way to Mercury The mission team is hoping BepiColombo can make it to its next gravity assist so that it can arrive at the planet in 2025. By Passant Rabie Published May 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Boeing’s Cursed Starliner Mission Delayed Due to ‘Small Helium Leak’ Teams replaced a faulty valve that led to the initial launch delay, but a new issue with the Starliner spacecraft has postponed liftoff for a second time. By Passant Rabie Published May 14, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Mysterious Moon Photobombs Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in Latest Juno Image The tiny moon, Amalthea, can be seen orbiting the gas giant against a backdrop of its famous Great Red Spot, but you'll need to squint. By Passant Rabie Published May 14, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The Latest in Boeing’s Starliner Fiasco Is a Feud Over That ‘Buzzing’ Valve A scorned company has warned NASA of a "disaster" should it proceed with a second launch attempt of the crewed spacecraft. By Passant Rabie Published May 10, 2024 | Comments (0)
