The latest SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 1:29 p.m. EDT Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bearing more than 7,300 pounds of science experiments, new solar arrays, and other cargo.
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A SpaceX Dragon will launch fresh NASA supplies to space station today. How to watch live.
Update for 2 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has successfully launched its CRS-22 Dragon cargo mission for NASA on a new Falcon 9 rocket. See video and a wrap up of the launch here. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch a Dragon spacecraft packed with NASA cargo to the International Space Station today (June 3) and you can watch the resupply mission live online. A shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will take to the skies here from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 1:29 p.m. EDT (1729 GMT). The two-stage launcher…
Read MoreAdministrator Bill Nelson Gives His First State of NASA Address
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson talks to the agency’s workforce during his first State of NASA event Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Read MoreChange to SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation faces legal challenge
SpaceX’s burgeoning satellite-internet business is getting a legal challenge. In late April, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a modification that SpaceX had made to the design of its Starlink megaconstellation, which beams broadband service down using satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). That modification, which SpaceX proposed in April 2020, applies to a license that the FCC has already granted. It moves the operating altitude for more than 2,800 future Starlink satellites much lower, from between 680 miles and 810 miles (1,100 to 1,300 kilometers) to around 340…
Read MoreNASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor.
Read MoreSpaceX to fly 3 more private astronaut missions to space station for Axiom Space
SpaceX just added some more private crewed flights to its docket. Houston-based Axiom Space will fly three additional crewed missions to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, the two companies announced today (June 2). Axiom had already booked one confirmed Crew Dragon flight to the orbiting lab; that mission will launch no earlier than January 2022. And last month, the company revealed that record-setting former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson would command the proposed Ax-2 flight to the station. Photos: The first space tourists We now know…
Read MoreGoogle Doodle honors Frank Kameny, astronomer-turned-activist, for Pride Month
Google Doodle marked the second day of Pride Month (June 2) by celebrating an astronomer, Frank Kameny, who lost his job due to homophobia and spent the rest of his life fighting discrimination. Born in Queens, New York, Kameny began studying physics in college at just 15, according to Google. After joining the Army during World War II when he was 17, he returned to the U.S. in 1946 and finished undergraduate coursework in physics, then earned master’s and doctoral degrees in astronomy at Harvard. His research there focused on…
Read MoreCientíficas de la NASA disponibles para entrevistas durante la temporada de huracanes
El 1 de junio marcó el inicio oficial de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico, que termina oficialmente el 30 de noviembre.
Read MoreA Sunrise Annular Solar Eclipse
Even if you’re not in the path of annularity during the June 10th solar eclipse, get ready for a sunrise spectacle. The post A Sunrise Annular Solar Eclipse appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launch may slip to November
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may not launch on Halloween (Oct. 31) after all. Despite previous delays, progress on the highly anticipated Webb — billed as the successor to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope — has been steadily ongoing. For example, in May, the mission team recently unfolded Webb’s giant, golden mirror for the last time on Earth in the last major prelaunch test for the telescope’s mirror system. The telescope is set to be shipped in August to Kourou, French Guiana, where Webb will launch to space atop an Arianespace Ariane…
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