Satellite News

Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission’s asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.

China’s Chang’e 6 sample return mission to the moon’s far side is scheduled to launch early Friday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live.

Both the Hubble Telescope and TESS exoplanet hunter went into safe mode on April 23. Hubble is back on, but TESS remains off.

United Launch Alliance’s new video highlight’s how the Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing’s Starliner was stacked and mated to the spacecraft.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (May 2), on the second half of a planned spaceflight doubleheader.

NASA’s PREFIRE mission will deploy a pair of satellites from twin launches aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rockets that will contribute to climate change studies in the Arctic and Antarctica.

Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA’s last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.