News
-
Saturn’s disk-shaped moon Atlas spotted by Cassini
Read more →: Saturn’s disk-shaped moon Atlas spotted by CassiniThis unprocessed image of Saturn’s moon Atlas was taken on April 12, 2017, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credit:…
-
Preview: Cygnus ship sending abundance of science to ISS
Read more →: Preview: Cygnus ship sending abundance of science to ISSInside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, the Cygnus was tilted to the horizontal position…
-
Brexit raises question mark over UK’s role in some European space projects
Read more →: Brexit raises question mark over UK’s role in some European space projectsSSTL engineers working in Guildford, England, test a navigation payload for Europe’s Galileo program. Credit: SSTL The future…
-
Atlas 5 rocket aims for Tuesday morning launch of supplies to space station
Read more →: Atlas 5 rocket aims for Tuesday morning launch of supplies to space stationThe Atlas 5 will be rolled to the launch pad on Monday. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL…
-
Videos: Atlas 5 rocket stacked to launch Cygnus
Read more →: Videos: Atlas 5 rocket stacked to launch CygnusThis is video footage documenting stacking activities for the two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 194…
-
New discoveries raise prospects for life on moons of Jupiter and Saturn
Read more →: New discoveries raise prospects for life on moons of Jupiter and SaturnThis diagram of Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows its interior structure, with an icy shell and a subsurface ocean…
-
Science: Cygnus to make science-enabling delivery to the space station
Read more →: Science: Cygnus to make science-enabling delivery to the space stationThe Orbital ATK and NASA logos for the OA-7 Cygnus mission. Credit: Orbital ATK and NASA CAPE CANAVERAL…
-
China’s highest-capacity communications satellite launched into orbit
Read more →: China’s highest-capacity communications satellite launched into orbitA Long March 3B rocket blasted off Wednesday with China’s Shijian 13/Chinasat 16 communications satellite. Credit: Xinhua A…
-
Musk wants to make Falcon rockets fully reusable
Read more →: Musk wants to make Falcon rockets fully reusableThis illustration of a Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage re-entering the atmosphere is part of an animation released…
-
Video: Expedition 50 landing
Read more →: Video: Expedition 50 landingRemarkable video shot near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, shows the Soyuz capsule descending under parachute for an on-target landing. The…
-
Soyuz makes pinpoint landing in Kazakhstan with crew of three
Read more →: Soyuz makes pinpoint landing in Kazakhstan with crew of threeSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan on Monday. Credit: NASA/Bill…
-
U.S. military orders two more surveillance satellites to roam geosynchronous orbit
Read more →: U.S. military orders two more surveillance satellites to roam geosynchronous orbitArtist’s concept of two GSSAP spacecraft in orbit. Credit: U.S. Air Force Orbital ATK started work on two…