ScienceSpaceflight NASA Hid These Easter Eggs for Space Nerds on the Artemis 1 Orion Capsule The space agency paid homage to the Apollo missions and Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon." By Passant Rabie Published December 12, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight See the Best Images from the Thrilling Artemis 1 Splashdown The Orion spacecraft landed in the Pacific on Sunday, bringing the historic lunar mission to a close. By George Dvorsky Published December 12, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Orion Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending NASA’s Historic Artemis 1 Moon Mission After 25.5 days in space and 1.3 million miles traveled, Orion is back home following the thrilling debut of NASA’s Artemis program. By George Dvorsky Updated December 11, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Wants Self-Care Products Designed Specifically for Astronauts Colgate-Palmolive, the company behind many personal care products, will seek to develop new technologies for NASA, which the agency wants for its astronauts. By Kevin Hurler Published December 9, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Selects Collins Aerospace to Design New Spacesuits for the ISS The space agency is eager to change the current batch of spacesuits following recent incidents of dangerous water leaks. By Passant Rabie Published December 9, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight How to Watch Orion’s Climactic Return to Earth The Artemis 1 spacecraft is returning from its historic trip to the Moon, with splashdown scheduled for Sunday, December 11 at 12:40 p.m. ET. By George Dvorsky Published December 9, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Japanese Billionaire Taps DJ Steve Aoki and 7 Others for Trip Around the Moon SpaceX's Starship megarocket will be used for the unprecedented dearMoon mission, currently scheduled to blast off in 2023. By Passant Rabie Published December 9, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Here’s What Will Happen Once NASA’s Orion Splashes Down on Sunday NASA’s Artemis 1 trek to the Moon is coming to a close, but for the capsule recovery team, its mission is just about to begin. By George Dvorsky Updated December 9, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Odd Flying Observatory, SOFIA, Will Go on Display at Arizona Museum The space agency retired the flying infrared telescope last year as the result of budget cuts. By Passant Rabie Published December 9, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight UN Adopts Resolution Against Anti-Satellite Tests to Prevent More Space Debris A U.S.-led campaign has been encouraging other nations to ban dangerous anti-satellite tests, both to protect space-based assets and to prevent more space junk. By Passant Rabie Published December 8, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX One Step Closer to Offering Starlink Through T-Mobile SpaceX told the FCC it believes its new network could one day provide text, voice, and web browsing with theoretical upload speeds of 3.0 Mbps. By Mack DeGeurin Published December 8, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’S ICON Space Weather Satellite Has Suddenly Gone Silent The mission team lost contact with the ionosphere-probing spacecraft two weeks ago and hasn't heard from it since. By Passant Rabie Published December 8, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Key SpaceX Launches Back on Track After Unexplained Delays SpaceX is ready to launch a historic lunar lander and a batch of its competitor's satellites, missions that had been put on hold due to unspecified issues. By Passant Rabie Published December 8, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Next Asteroid-Hunting Telescope Will Launch Later and Cost More Than Expected The NEO Surveyor project has cleared a NASA review, but the space telescope will cost upwards of $1.2 billion to build and not launch until 2028. By Kevin Hurler Published December 7, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Sore Loser Bezos Is Hoping for a Second Chance to Build NASA’s Lunar Lander The Blue Origin founder sued NASA after losing its original bid to SpaceX, but there's still a chance for the billionaire to build an alternative Moon lander. By Passant Rabie Updated December 7, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Latest Artemis 1 Moon Images Are Truly Jaw-Dropping New photos from Orion offer spectacular views of the Moon and lunar environment, the likes of which haven't been seen in decades. By George Dvorsky Published December 7, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Orion Will ‘Skip Like a Rock’ Across Earth’s Atmosphere During Upcoming Reentry The exciting finale of the Artemis 1 mission will involve a reentry technique never attempted for a passenger spacecraft. By George Dvorsky Published December 6, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Is Building a Robotic Arm That Can Function During the Moon’s Frigid Nights Meant for the ongoing Artemis missions, COLDArm is designed to withstand temperatures of minus-280 degrees Fahrenheit during the Moon's lunar night. By Kevin Hurler Published December 6, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ‘Starshield’ Gets SpaceX Deeper in Bed With Global Militaries The new division, called Starshield, further casts SpaceX as a military contractor and leverages its existing partnerships with the Pentagon. By Kyle Barr Published December 6, 2022 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX’s Starlink Has Competition—and SpaceX Is Launching It on Tuesday SpaceX is launching a batch of internet satellites belonging to its main rival, OneWeb, in one of the more unintuitive launches of the year. By Passant Rabie Published December 5, 2022 | Comments (0)
