Satellite News

SpaceX and NASA have delayed the next Dragon cargo launch to the International Space Station by two additional days, to Nov. 9.

For the record, Ken Mattingly never did get the German measles. The former NASA astronaut, who in 1970 was pulled from the Apollo 13 crew, died on Tuesday (Oct. 31) at the age of 87.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft just flew by its first asteroid — and discovered that the space rock has a companion.

China’s Shenzhou 16 astronauts landed safely on Earth this week despite an apparent hole appearing in their return capsule’s parachute.

An independent mass measurement of Sagittarius A* suggests we have been right all along about how utterly massive this black hole is.

The JWST demanded software improvements that will help future telescopes and spacecraft.

Intuitive Machines’ lunar landing mission is again delayed two months to January 2024, but its Nova-C moon lander is ready to go.

Virgin Galactic’s reusable space plane VSS Unity aced its fifth commercial mission today (Nov. 2), continuing the one-flight-per-month tempo the company began this spring.