Satellite News

SpaceX has pushed the launch of the historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission back 24 hours, to Wednesday morning (Aug. 28), due to a helium leak.

Polaris Dawn has lots of science on board. The SpaceX mission will fly high in Earth orbit to investigate how the human body changes under the extreme conditions of space.

Blue Origin is targeting Thursday (Aug. 29) for the launch of its eighth suborbital crewed mission, a flight called NS-26.

Mattel is counting down to the release of its latest space-themed Matchbox toy. Its 1:64 scale version of SpaceX’s Crew Transport Vehicle is arriving Oct. 1.

JANUS, which is the high-resolution camera on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, received a solid workout during the fly-by of Earth over Aug. 19 and Aug. 20.

SpaceX test-fired the first stage of Polaris Dawn’s Falcon 9 rocket over the weekend, keeping the historic astronaut mission on track for an Aug. 27 launch.

A preview of Prime Video’s animated video game anthology, “Secret Level,” which arrives on Dec. 10.

SpaceX’s private Polaris Dawn mission is poised to launch a crew of private astronauts farther from Earth than any human has flown since Apollo 17.