Tag: Solar System

  • Photos: Press site views of Falcon Heavy’s maiden launch

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    SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket powered off launch pad 39A at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT) Tuesday on its inaugural test flight, and we captured the launcher’s spectacular liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site around 3 miles from the pad. Photographer Walter Scriptunas II took these images of the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifting…

  • ‘Starman’ puts Earth in the rearview mirror

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: SpaceX Now in an elliptical orbit around the sun, the Tesla Roadster launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday during the powerful booster’s maiden flight was expected to pass beyond the moon’s orbit overnight Wednesday and reach the orbit of Mars in July as it puts…

  • Juno’s latest imagery from Jupiter

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    This image of Jupiter’s swirling south polar region was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it neared completion of its tenth close flyby of the gas giant planet on Dec. 16, 2017. Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/Gerald Eichstädt NASA’s Juno spacecraft, now on its 11th…

  • Elon Musk says SpaceX will try to launch his Tesla Roadster on new heavy-lift rocket

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Dec. 2 with further confirmation, and details about the Roadster’s target orbit. The interstage of SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket pictured inside the company’s factory last year in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX. SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted Friday that his red Tesla Roadster will head for deep space on…

  • Hunt for Planet Nine leads to mini-worlds

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    An artist’s conception shows Planet X, a.k.a. Planet Nine. (Credit: Robin Dienel / Carnegie Inst.) The hypothetical world known as Planet X or Planet Nine hasn’t yet been found, but thanks to the search, astronomers have discovered smaller worlds on the solar system’s edge. Mapping such objects could lead to the big discovery: a planet that’s thought to…

  • UAE details ambitious plan for Martian weather satellite

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    Artist’s concept of the Emirates Mars Mission. Credit: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center Scientists from the United Arab Emirates have announced the Arab world’s first Mars probe will launch in July 2020 and collect global measurements of the Martian atmosphere. Assuming a launch in 2020, the robotic probe will fly on a seven-month cruise to…

  • NASA receives proposals for new planetary science mission

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    NASA’s 13th Discovery program mission is set for launch in 2021. Credit: NASA The proposals are in for a new NASA robotic mission for launch in 2021 to explore the solar system, and scientists have submitted concepts for probes to the moon, planets, asteroids and comets for a chance to win $450 million in federal…