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SpaceX launches used rocket for 500th time, sends Sentinel-6B ocean-mapping satellite to orbit (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched a powerful ocean-mapping satellite from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17) on a landmark flight — the company’s 500th orbital mission with a used rocket. The Sentinel-6B spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon […]
SpaceX launches used rocket for 500th time, sends Sentinel-6B ocean-mapping satellite to orbit (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched a powerful ocean-mapping satellite from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17) on a landmark flight — the company’s 500th orbital mission with a used rocket. The Sentinel-6B spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon 9 […]
Finnish vendor ICEYE and Wojskowe Zakłady Łączności No 1, an offshoot of Poland’s state-run defense group PGZ, are developing a new satellite constellation for the Polish military. (ICEYE) The plans to launch Poland’s first military satellite, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite built by the Polish-Finnish consortium ICEYE, will be from Vandenberg AFB in […]
Watch SpaceX launch powerful ocean-mapping satellite for Europe and NASA early Nov. 17 (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX will launch an advanced ocean-mapping satellite from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17), and you can watch the action live. The Sentinel-6B spacecraft is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg […]
SpaceX launches 2 rockets less than 4 hours apart from Florida’s Space Coast (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX pulled off a doubleheader overnight on Friday (Nov. 14), launching two rockets less than four hours apart from Florida’s Space Coast. The action started Friday at 10:08 p.m. EST (0308 GMT on Saturday, Nov. […]
How spacefaring nations could avoid conflict on the moon (Image Credit: Space.com) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra’s song Fly Me to the Moon became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic […]
Watch Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket ace its epic landing on a ship at sea (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Blue Origin’s powerful New Glenn rocket had a very big day on Thursday (Nov. 13), and a new video lets us all relive part of it. New Glenn launched for the second […]
SpaceX launches 2 rockets less than 4 hours apart from Florida’s Space Coast (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX pulled off a doubleheader overnight on Friday (Nov. 14), launching two rockets less than four hours apart from Florida’s Space Coast. The action started Friday at 10:08 p.m. EST (0308 GMT on Saturday, Nov. 15), […]
China’s Shenzhou 21 astronauts are stranded aboard the Tiangong space station — for now (Image Credit: Space.com) If an emergency arises aboard China’s Tiangong space station in the next few days, its three astronaut residents could be in trouble. That trio — members of the Shenzhou 21 mission — arrived at Tiangong […]
China’s Shenzhou 20 astronauts return to Earth on different spacecraft after finding window cracks in their own (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The three astronauts of China’s Shenzhou 20 mission safely touched down on the Dongfeng Landing Site in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region shortly before 3.45 a.m. EST (0845 GMT) on Nov. […]
