Satellite News

Every once in a while, something will appear in the sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don’t bother looking up.

The new space series “Away,” which highlights the emotional (and often life-threatening) struggles that the first humans embarking on a trip to Mars may face, launches on Netflix today (Sept. 4).

In a show that is primarily set aboard a fictional spacecraft flying through simulated space, there is a scene in the new Netflix Mars mission series, “Away,” that looks particularly close to the real thing — and that is because it is.

On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space. Here’s how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!

NASA’s highly anticipated mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa needs a rocket — and soon, the project’s planners say.

A new documentary series titled “Venus: Death of a Planet / Cloud Cities of Venus” explores the possibility of life on Venus — and how humans could one day terraform Earth’s “twin.”

In many ways, Venus shows us an Earth that could have been; the twin that grew up in a different environment.

Rocket: Vega; Payload: 53 satellites); Date: 3 September 2020, 0151 UTC;Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite passengers on the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept rideshare mission were released during a flight sequence lasting 1 hour, 44 minutes from lift-off to final separation, involving multiple deployments with the SSMS dispenser.