Satellite News

Just another satellite weblog

 

SpaceX launching 4 ‘MicroGEO’ satellites to orbit tonight

Submit on Saturday, December 21st, 2024 03:11

SpaceX plans to launch four of Astranis’ “MicroGEO” communications satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast tonight (Dec. 20).

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

Axiom’s private space station is coming sooner than we thought

Submit on Saturday, December 21st, 2024 02:11

Axiom Space has decided to change up the method for assembling its commercial space station, meaning the outpost could be free-flying as soon as 2028.

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

Watch NASA’s Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)

Submit on Saturday, December 21st, 2024 01:11

NASA’s Orion spacecraft recently completed an 11-month test campaign, during which it was subjected to extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario and electromagnetic effects of lightning strikes.

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over ‘sensor data’

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 23:11

A new exact launch date for the Strix satellite launch by Rocket Lab has yet to be announced.

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

NASA Mars probe spies dusty, retired Insight lander from orbit (photo)

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 23:11

Photos of the dormant InSight lander captured from Mars orbit are providing researchers new data on how dust accumulates and evolves over time on the Red Planet.

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

Hubble’s ‘impossible’ planet explained? Gas giants may have formed fast in early universe

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 22:11

An ancient exoplanet dated at 12.7 billion years old could have formed over a long period in a giant disk of gas, according to new JWST observations.

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

The Ursid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here’s what to expect from the final ‘shooting stars’ of 2024

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 20:11

The last meteor shower of the year peaks in the early morning hours of Dec. 22.

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange ‘sideways’ black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)

Submit on Friday, December 20th, 2024 20:11

Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on its side in a cosmic crime scene.

Category: NEWS | No Comments »

Satellite News
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.