ScienceSpaceflight Chinese Rocket Accidentally Launches During Test, Crashes Dramatically Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3 rocket somehow escaped its restraints during a static fire test on Sunday. By Passant Rabie Published July 1, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ISS Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter After Russian Satellite Mysteriously Disintegrates The defunct satellite broke apart into more than 100 pieces, raising speculation that it may be the result of an anti-satellite missile test. By Passant Rabie Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Launches Critical Weather Satellite The rocket took flight on Tuesday, on a course to deliver NOAA's GOES-U satellite to geostationary transfer orbit. By Passant Rabie Updated June 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Is Being Sued for Dropping Space Junk on a Florida Home The space agency tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the ISS, and a piece of it fell through a family's roof. By Passant Rabie Published June 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace A Bonus ‘Hitchhiker’ Will Come Back From Mars in Perseverance’s Sample Tubes Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere. By Isaac Schultz Published June 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Everything We Noticed During SpaceX’s Thrilling Fourth Test of Starship The megarocket broke new ground, with the Super Heavy booster landing in the Gulf of Mexico and the upper stage surviving reentry, but just barely. By Passant Rabie Published June 7, 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 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 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 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 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 NASA’s Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months The space agency is investing in the development of a propulsion system that uses nuclear power to create plasma bursts. By Passant Rabie Published May 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Starliner Joins the Ranks: The Elite Spacecraft That Have Carried NASA Astronauts to Space Boeing's Starliner is the latest addition to the surprisingly short list of passenger spacecraft in NASA's history. By Passant Rabie Updated May 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
Science Satellite Rediscovered in Space After Being Lost for 25 Years Plus: The deepest blue hole, a haunting close-up view of the Sun's surface, and freaky alpaca sex. Gizmodo Staff Published May 4, 2024
ScienceSpaceflight Russia’s UN Veto Fuels More Tension With the US Over Nuclear Weapons in Space The draft resolution sponsored by the U.S. and Japan would have reaffirmed a ban already put forth by the Outer Space Treaty. By Passant Rabie Published April 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Chinese Astronauts Performed Emergency Space Station Repairs Following Debris Impact China's Tiangong space station partially lost power after its solar panels were struck by an unidentified object late last year. By Passant Rabie Published April 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Launches Solar Sail to Test Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel The mission rode aboard Rocket Lab's Electron, reusing one of the rocket's boosters for the first time. By Passant Rabie Updated April 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Space Company Aims to Deliver Critical Supplies to Any Location in 90 Minutes Sierra Space's Ghost delivery platform is now in beta testing. By George Dvorsky Published April 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
