The Expedition 73 crew explored microgravity’s effect on bone and plant cells and studied futuristic space workouts aboard the International Space Station on Thursday to keep astronauts fit and promote space agriculture.
After launching July 30, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite mission, a joint effort between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is on schedule to start science operations this fall. Following the deployment of its 39-foot (12-meter) radar antenna reflector on Aug. 15, engineers powered on the satellite’s L-band and […]
Preventing space-caused head and eye pressure impacts using specialized medical hardware was the top research theme aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The Expedition 73 residents also continued unpacking a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft and practiced an emergency drill aboard the orbital outpost.
Expedition 73 opened the hatch to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after its arrival on Monday and has begun unloading advanced science experiments to continue benefitting humans living on and off the Earth. The International Space Station residents also prepared for next month’s Dragon reboost and kept up lab maintenance and Earth observations.
The TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission is targeting Tuesday, Aug. 26, for the next launch attempt. The window will open 10:30 p.m.-3:30 a.m. EDT. Follow live updates on Wallops Facebook and X, with a livestream starting later in the count. Those in the mid-Atlantic region may catch a glimpse of the rockets, weather permitting.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been analyzing insights from Webb’s data, and a preprint is available online. Webb is one of NASA’s space telescopes observing this comet, together providing more information about its size, physical properties, and chemical makeup. For […]
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 7 to Aug. 15. The SPHEREx team has been analyzing insights from this data, and a research note is available online. The agency’s SPHEREx is one of NASA’s space telescopes observing this comet, together providing […]
At 7:05 a.m. EDT, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module.
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The TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission is targeting Monday, Aug. 25, for the first launch attempt. The window will open 10 p.m.-3 a.m. EDT. Follow live updates on Wallops Facebook and X, with a livestream beginning five minutes before launch. Those in the mid-Atlantic region may catch a glimpse of the rockets, weather permitting.
