Satellite News

John McFall, a reserve parastronaut with the European Space Agency, says he is ‘not a great competitor.’ But he transformed his Paralympics race in 2008 into a career-boosting moment.

SpaceX scrubbed the planned Aug. 28 launch of the Polaris Dawn astronaut mission due to bad weather. The mission now won’t fly until Friday (Aug. 30) at the earliest.

Scientists found an unexpected ratio of hydrogen to deuterium in Venus’ atmosphere, offering clues about the world’s past.

DART appears to have derailed its asteroid target from its normal evolution progress. The impact also made a crater.

A new launch trailer has arrived at Gamescom 2024 for Ubisoft’s “Star Wars Outlaws,” which will be available on Aug. 30.

Astrobotic says the Peregrine lunar lander, aka the first private moon mission, failed because of a faulty valve.

On Sept. 8, 2024, a satellite named Salsa will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up safely over a hand-picked region of the South Pacific — if all goes to plan.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered half a dozen rogue planets, one of which apparently hosts a newly forming moon system.