Satellite News

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (May 2), on the second half of a planned spaceflight doubleheader.

NASA’s PREFIRE mission will deploy a pair of satellites from twin launches aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rockets that will contribute to climate change studies in the Arctic and Antarctica.

Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA’s last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

NASA’s inspector general writes that the Artemis 1 test flight of the Orion spacecraft revealed anomalies that “pose significant risks to the safety of the crew.”

WASP-12b is a planet on a date with a fiery destiny, doomed to plunge into its sun-like star. Scientists may finally know why some hot Jupiters eventually death spiral into their stars.

NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could agency science missions to Mars down the road.

Credits will do fine in the Lego Star Wars Day deals.

There’s nothing quite like a prime directive violation dispute to bring any episode of any Trek series home, as season 5 episode 6 of “Star Trek: Discovery” shows.