[ad_1] Update 7:41 a.m. Thursday: Overnight, NASA officials postponed the Crew-8 mission until 11:16 p.m. Saturday, citing strong winds and waves along the Dragon spacecraft’s flight path. Original story: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 is ready to launch on its six-month mission to the International Space Station, extending an ongoing legacy of low-Earth orbit that many Americans … Read more
[ad_1] SpaceX launched a new batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast today (Feb. 29) in a leap day launch that came after the company delayed its first astronaut launch of the year. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink satellites lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at … Read more
[ad_1] Scroll down to watch the FLORIDA TODAY space team’s live coverage of Saturday’s scrapped SpaceX Starlink launch attempt from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. After two hours of delays, SpaceX announced that it is now targeting 4:34 p.m. EST Sunday to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Starlink mission 6-39 from Launch Complex 40 … Read more
[ad_1] SpaceX has successfully launched the first private lunar lander to the moon, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and the Artemis campaign. The Nova-C lander, developed by Intuitive Machines, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at … Read more
[ad_1] Another month, another attempt at the moon. A robotic lunar lander was launched into space early Thursday morning. If all goes well, in nine days it will become the first American spacecraft to softly touch down on the lunar surface since the Apollo 17 moon landing in 1972. It would also become the first … Read more
[ad_1] SpaceX launched a mysterious national security mission today (February 14) in a flawless late afternoon launch. A Falcon 9 rocket launched the classified USSF-124 mission for the US Space Force from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today, right on time at 5:30 pm EST (2230 GMT). The first stage of the Falcon … Read more
[ad_1] Update for February 14: SpaceX now aims to launch the IM-1 lunar lander mission for Intuitive Machines no earlier than Thursday, February 15, due to a liquid methane temperature issue during preparations to fuel the Odysseus lander. You can read our story and see updated mission times below. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will … Read more
[ad_1] Like much of the world, NASA closely watched the second test flight of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, and now we can see what the agency saw. That flight took off on Nov. 18, 2023, sending the two-stage Starship aloft from Starbase, SpaceX’s site on the Texas Gulf Coast. It ended eight minutes later, when … Read more
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[ad_1] Turkey’s first astronaut will depart the International Space Station on Wednesday, after spending 18 days at the orbital laboratory as part of a private mission. Alper Gezeravci, a 44-year-old fighter pilot in the Turkish Air Force, and three fellow astronauts were on the Axiom-3 mission, which launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on Jan. 20 … Read more
[ad_1] Official portrait of SpaceX Crew-8 with Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist Aleksandr Grebenkin, and pilot Michael Barratt, commander Matthew Dominick and mission specialist Jeanette Epps, all three NASA astronauts. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford POT and SpaceX Their goal is no earlier than Thursday, February 22, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-8 mission to International … Read more