Satellite News

The growing strength of Tropical Storm Ian has forced NASA to call off its Artemis 1 moon rocket launch on Sept. 27 and prepare to leave the launch pad.

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 52 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Saturday at 7:32 p.m. EDT (2332 GMT). Watch it live here.

There is some debate as to the nature of the star cluster NGC1746.

The Virtual Telescope Project will attempt to show DART’s impact through its network of ground-based telescopes.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a U.S. spy satellite on Saturday (Sept. 24), and you can watch it live. Liftoff is scheduled for 5:53 p.m. EDT (2153 GMT).

For NASA’s DART spacecraft, the drama happens in space, but mission success relies on telescopes back on Earth.

This app-enabled telescope comes with the usual Celestron quality and is a handy £50 off on Wex Photo Video with a discount for US-based astronomers, too.

A NASA spacecraft will soon make history when it crashes into an asteroid in the world’s first planetary defense test. Here’s what time it will happen and how to watch.