Satellite News

The small-satellite launch startup bluShift Aerospace will attempt its first Stardust suborbital rocket launch from Maine Sunday (Jan. 31) and you can watch it live here.

Russia has chosen four new candidates to begin cosmonaut training after an extended one-and-a-half-year selection process.

The small-satellite launch startup bluShift Aerospace will attempt its first Stardust suborbital rocket launch from Maine Sunday (Jan. 31) and you can watch it live here.

Storms on simulated Mars have deprived the Valoria 1 crew of solar power and forced them to resort to extreme measures. Living in the cold and dark, Commander Musilova reflects on the many challenges they faced and have yet to face to complete their mission at HI-SEAS.

The universe may be filled with “mirror” particles — and these otherwise-undetectable particles could be shrinking the densest stars in the universe, turning them into black holes.

A new study examines a potential mechanism for extracting energy from a rotating black hole, and suggests it may account for some of the energetic flares observed near these massive disruptions in time and space.

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

On Jan. 30, 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the moon. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!