Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto a work stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in this image from Oct. 4, 2021.
Read MoreMonth: September 2022
This jaw-dropping Jupiter photo is a photographer’s sharpest ever and made of 600,000 images
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy of Arizona captured this stunning view of Jupiter by stacking 600,000 images of the planet to create his sharpest view ever. See more of McCarthy’s images on Instagram (opens in new tab). (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/) One photo of Jupiter may be worth a thousand words, but what about more than half a million? Veteran astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy of Arizona unveiled this spectacular photo of Jupiter this month on Sept. 17 after capturing his best view yet of the giant planet this month. But what you’re seeing…
Read MoreUpcoming Star Wars TV shows
Disney hasn’t released a Star Wars film since 2019’s polarizing conclusion to the Skywalker Saga and with plenty of ambiguity as to its current movie release schedule you’d think it’d be slim pickings for wannabe Jedi Knights, Sith Lords and bounty hunters. But even a cursory glance at the following upcoming Star Wars TV shows reveals that there’s plenty to keep even the most discerning fans busy well into 2023 and beyond. Season 3 of The Mandalorian is one of the best upcoming sci-fi TV shows (opens in new tab)…
Read MoreOn This Day In Space: Sept. 25, 2008: China launches its 3rd human spaceflight
On Sept. 25, 2008, China’s space program launched its third human spaceflight mission, Shenzhou 7. Three astronauts blasted off in the Shenzhou spacecraft on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Zhai Zhigang waves the flag of the People’s Republic of China from space, as his crewmate, Liu Boming, peeks his head out of the hatch. (Image credit: CCTV/Xinhua) Related Stories They spent three days in orbit and conducted the first ever spacewalk for the Chinese space program. The Shenzhou 7 crew also deployed a…
Read MoreNASA calls off Artemis 1 moon rocket launch on Sept. 27 due to Tropical Storm Ian
NASA won’t try to thread the weather needle with its Artemis 1 moon mission after all. The space agency had been targeting Tuesday (Sept. 27) for the launch of Artemis 1 from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), on Florida’s Atlantic coast. That remained the plan as recently as Friday (Sept. 23), though NASA officials stressed that they were keeping a close eye on a brewing storm in the Caribbean called Tropical Depression 9. Tropical Depression 9 intensified into Tropical Storm Ian late Friday and is expected to grow in strength further.…
Read MoreThis Week In Space podcast: Episode 30 — Why are we going to space anyway?
On today’s This Week in Space, we talk about flying on Titan, that shrouded moon of Saturn! On this episode of This Week in Space (opens in new tab), Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik meet up with engineer and visionary Jeff Greason to discuss why humanity must continue to explore and develop space. Jeff Greason is a space propulsion engineer, aerospace industry veteran and chairs the board of the Tau Zero Foundation that aims to help humanity reach interstellar space! We’ll talk about what kinds of outposts we may choose to…
Read MoreOn This Day In Space: Sept. 24, 2014: India’s 1st Mars mission reaches orbit
On Sept. 24, 2014, India’s first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars! India’s First Mars Mission in Pictures The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan (Sanskrit for “Mars Craft”), spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched. It was mostly a technology demonstration that India’s space agency orchestrated to prove they could send a spacecraft to Mars. But it also has some cameras and scientific instruments to collect data about the Red Planet. Artist’s concept of India’s Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft, which arrived…
Read MoreNASA to Cover Crew Arrival to Launch Site, Flight Readiness Review
NASA will host two media briefings Monday, Sept. 26, in preparation for the fifth crew rotation mission with SpaceX as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
Read MoreNASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Space Station Science Highlights
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in early October from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read MoreFCC denies SpaceX $900 million in Starlink funding
SpaceX has a beef with satellite funding. In a rare media release, SpaceX said it will appeal a funding decision related to its Starlink broadband satellite constellation, which aims to send internet service to rural areas across the world. The space launch services giant was recently rejected for nearly $900 million dollars in rural connectivity funding from the Wireline Competition Bureau (a branch of the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC). SpaceX characterized that decision (opens in new tab) as “grossly unfair” in its Sept. 9 appeal to the regulator, which…
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