Satellite News

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 60 Starlink satellites; Date: 24 October 2020, 1131 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Starlink satellites deployed approximately 1 hour and 3 minutes after lift-off. It was the 14th launch of operational Starlink satellites and the 15th Starlink flight overall.

The solid rocket motors built for Vega-C under contract to Avio have all completed the hot fire tests to qualify them for flight.

Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements – acquiring at least 60 grams of the asteroid’s surface material. However, the lid for the collector at the end of the probe’s arm where the fragments are being stored has been slightly wedged open by larger rocks, creating a leak.

The night sky is, and always has been, safe and free.

An innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by NASA has helped identify a cluster of craters on Mars that formed within the last decade.

Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever, the time it takes for a particle of light to cross a hydrogen molecule.