Satellite News

On Friday (Jan. 6), the moon will be fully illuminated for the first time in 2023 during the Full Wolf Moon when it will also be at its furthest from the sun, the aphelion.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is wrapping up its prime mission after 687 Earth days on the Red Planet.

A new video provides a rocket’s-eye view of this week’s Transporter-6 mission, SpaceX’s 200th orbital launch since the company’s 2002 founding.

One of the many payloads that took flight atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was a tiny cubesat that will gather weather data for the U.S. Space Force.

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanic body in the solar system, with outbursts occurring yearly. A particularly large volcanic eruption was spotted in the fall of 2022.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has dropped its fourth rock sample tube at a location in Jezero Crater, meaning its first backup sample depot is now 40% complete.

Now you can follow NASA’s BioSentinel cubesat as it flies through space. The experiment will investigate the effects of cosmic radiation on cells.

Planetary scientists attending the first major conference since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) permanently moved a space rock offered early findings about the asteroid and the impact.