Satellite News

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told a major international space conference that the possibility of cooperating with China in space is “up to China.”

SpaceX fired seven engines on its Starship Super Heavy prototype “Booster 7” on Monday (Sept. 19), marking the highest number of Raptor engines ever tested simultaneously.

The solar system’s most massive planet, Jupiter, will make its closest approach to Earth for 59 years on Sept. 26 even as the gas giant will be directly opposite the sun as viewed from Earth.

Earth-imaging satellites have spied the massive crowds that gathered in London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

A fueling test of NASA’s new megarocket on Sept. 21 could make or break the agency’s hopes of launching the Artemis 1 moon mission on Sept. 27.

Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who logged the single longest stay in space, has died at the age of 80. Polyakov launched on two missions to the space station Mir. In total, he was off Earth for 678 days.

The James Webb Space Telescope excels at capturing images of distant cosmic objects, but the telescope’s new Mars images demonstrate it can have an impact much closer to home.