Satellite News

Because oxygen takes up valuable weight aboard spacecraft, space mission planners are interested in the idea of creating oxygen right there on Mars with raw Martian materials.

A robotic Russian Progress cargo spacecraft will launch toward the International Space Station tonight (Aug. 22), and you can watch the liftoff live.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission is poised to place a lander and a rover on the moon, and you can watch the historic broadcast live for free.

The first domestically produced moon probe in modern Russia history, Luna-25 was important in both political and scientific terms. The implications of its failure are likely to be considerable.

XRISM, a new mission to study X-ray signals stemming from violent explosions and scorching cosmic locations, will launch on Saturday (Aug. 26) to assist scientists studying the evolution of our universe.

SpaceX and NASA have cleared the company’s Crew-7 astronaut mission to the ISS for launch. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:49 a.m. EDT (0749 GMT) on Friday (Aug. 25).

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has captured photos of a big sunspot, which should rotate into view for those of us on Earth in the coming days.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe has photographed the far side of the moon, testing out landing optics that will be put to use during an Aug. 23 touchdown try.