Satellite News

Hayley Arceneaux’s new memoir chronicles her journey from childhood cancer survivor to one of four civilians on board a SpaceX mission in September 2021.

Medical sample collection in low Earth orbit could be repurposed for future moon and Mars missions.

Robots working together will assist astronauts on rocky worlds like the moon and Mars, if Earth tests like this show it’s possible.

On Sept. 26, DART will slam headfirst into a small asteroid, the rare case when a spacecraft’s destruction is the desired outcome.

SpaceX will send another big batch of Starlink satellites to orbit on Tuesday night (Sept. 13) — and bring the first stage of a rocket back to Earth.

Sept. 23 is no longer an option for the launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission. The agency is now targeting Sept. 27, with a possible backup date of Oct. 2.

Strange hexagonal diamonds may have been jettisoned into space when a dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid around 4.5 billion years ago.

In-flight failures are always startling, given the dramatic visuals that accompany them. But the possibility of failure should always be in the back of our minds.