NASA’s live coverage of rendezvous and docking is now underway on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms including social media. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) to the …
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft recently completed the shaking, chilling, baking, and other testing needed to ensure it can survive launch and the harsh conditions of space. Now that environmental testing is done, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, is putting the orbiter and its science instruments through flight system software tests …
The crewed Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following a launch at 12:23 p.m. EDT Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) with NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at …
NASA’s live launch coverage is underway on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms including social media. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) to the International Space Station …
Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft’s thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive commands, send engineering data, and provide the unique science data it is gathering.
Human research activities and space biology kept the International Space Station residents busy on Tuesday as they prepare for the arrival of three new crewmates who are set to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. NASA astronaut Don Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, will launch aboard …
In 2025, NASA will launch its first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of intense electrical currents that flow high in our atmosphere when auroras shimmer above Earth’s poles.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission passed a mission planning milestone, known as Key Decision Point E, on Monday. It now is approved to continue to proceed toward launch, with a launch period that opens Thursday, Oct. 10.
Six of the nine orbital residents living and working aboard the International Space Station relaxed on Monday following last week’s departure of Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner spacecraft. The trio on duty today readied for the next crew to launch to the orbital outpost and tested a negative pressure suit. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams …
Everyone everywhere is invited to join fellow sky-watchers Saturday, Sept. 14, for International Observe the Moon Night – a worldwide public event encouraging observation, appreciation, and understanding of the Moon and its connection to NASA exploration and discovery. This celebration of the Moon has been held annually since 2010, and this year NASA’s Planetary Missions …
