The Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission – or GDC – is a team of satellites that will study Earth's upper atmosphere and provide the first direct global measurements of our planet's dynamic and complex interface with the space environment. This boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space is called the ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system.
Welcome to NASA's #SolarTour! The Sun has an immense influence in space. It shapes and impacts our entire solar system in ways that we are still trying to understand. To help unravel some of the Sun's biggest mysteries, NASA launched Parker Solar Probe in 2018 to study the Sun up close. This year, the mission …
NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 10th close approach to the Sun on Nov. 21, coming within 5.3 million miles (8.5 million kilometers) of the solar surface.
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world's first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Just one part of NASA's larger planetary …
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has separated from the Falcon 9 second stage and is flying on its own.
A series of events occur after launch. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first stage main engine will cut off, followed by separation from the second stage. The second stage will ignite, followed by payload fairing jettison from the DART spacecraft about three minutes after liftoff. The second stage will cut off and then restart a …
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has launched from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Launch time was 10:21 p.m. PST on Nov. 23 (1:21 a.m. Nov. 24). DART will soon be on its voyage to rendezvous with an asteroid.
DART will be the first Launch Services Program (LSP) mission to fly on a previously flown Falcon 9 booster DART will be the first interplanetary mission flown on a Falcon 9 LSP contracted with SpaceX for the DART launch in 2019 through the NASA Launch Services II Contract This is the 97th LSP Launch (since …
The weather officer with Space Launch Delta 30 reports that weather is still 90 percent "go" at launch time for NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission. Conditions at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California are favorable for launch. Winds are 18 miles per hour and temperature is 48 degrees Fahrenheit.
Fueling of the SpaceX Falcon 9 first and second stages is underway. NASA and SpaceX mission and launch managers will begin the final poll for launch. Latest weather update is 90 percent "go" for a launch.
