Satellite News

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station today (Dec. 7), and you can watch it live here.

In a year full of terrible new sorrows and burdens, the collapse of Arecibo Observatory’s iconic radio telescope feels like a particularly brutal loss to Puerto Ricans.

If teensy black holes could be produced inside the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, that would be a boon for physics.

On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Dragon; Date: 6 December 2020, 0617 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida/USA. The Dragon resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 2,880 kg of science investigations, a new airlock, and other cargo.

Rocket: Chang Zheng-3B/G5; Payload: Gaofen-14; Date: 6 December 2020, 0358 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The observation satellite was released into a 481 km x 496 km x 97.36 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).

The return capsule of JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission has safely landed in Australia, hopefully carrying rock samples from beneath the surface of asteroid Ryugu that scientists say could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our planet.

The ascender of China’s Chang’e-5 probe successfully rendezvoused and docked with the orbiter-returner combination in lunar orbit, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced Sunday.