Tag: Space

New Imagery From Mars Helicopter’s Furthest Flight

Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than ever before. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s black-and-white navigation camera provided video of its 25th flight, which took place on April 18. Covering a distance of 2,310 feet at a speed of 12 mph, it was the…


SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission Launches

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with the Transporter-5 mission aboard on Wednesday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission is comprised of numerous small satellites for commercial and government customers. In total, the mission carries 59 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles.   …


Boeing Starliner Capsule Returns to Earth, Capping Key Uncrewed Test Mission

Boeing Co.’s Starliner astronaut capsule returned from the International Space Station (ISS) and landed in New Mexico on Wednesday, capping a high-stakes test flight as NASA’s next vehicle for carrying humans to orbit. Less than a week after its launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida, the CST-100 Starliner capsule plunged through…


Japanese Astronaut Will Join NASA’s Artemis Mission to the Moon: Biden

President Joe Biden said on May 23 that a Japanese astronaut will board NASA’s Artemis mission to the moon, as the United States and Japan seek to expand civil space cooperation. During a press briefing with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, Biden said the partners are committed to sending a Japanese astronaut to…


Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Docks With Space Station in Uncrewed Flight Test

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule docked for the first time with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, completing a major objective in a high stakes do-over test flight into orbit without astronauts aboard. The rendezvous of the gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with the orbital research outpost, currently home to a seven-member crew, occurred…


Scientists Grow Edible Plants in Moon Soil

Researchers have grown plants in the soil of the Moon, according to a recent report from NASA. The study not only can help scientists better overcome food scarcity here on Earth, but it can also help them develop food sources for future humans living or traveling in space. Lunar “soil” is not the same as…


Space Engineers Baffled by NASA Voyager 1 Telemetry Data

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, which is still traveling through space 45 years after launch, has sent data that has stumped engineers at the space agency. The probe is operating normally, performing its usual functions like gathering and returning science data as well as receiving and executing commands from Earth. However, readouts from the Altitude Articulation…


SpaceX Launches 53 Satellites Into Orbit

SpaceX launch another round of Starlink satellites into orbit Wednesday. Fifty-three Starlink internet satellites were released into orbit on this mission. This is the third Starlink mission launch in the past five days. Starlink satellites enable video calls, online gaming, streaming, and other high data rate activities. …


Rare US Congressional UFO Hearing Lacks Transparency: Lawmaker

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said the Pentagon isn’t being transparent enough with the public on UFOs, offering few answers to long-existing unexplained phenomena at a historical hearing. “We just got hosed, basically,” Burchett told reporters on May 17, saying that he thinks officials are withholding information from Americans on UFOs, also known as Unidentified Aerial…


Rare Congressional UFO Hearing Didn’t Provide ‘Real Answers to Serious Questions’: Lawmaker

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said the Pentagon isn’t being transparent enough with the public on UFOs, offering few answers to long-existing unexplained phenomena at a historic hearing. “We just got hosed, basically,” Burchett told reporters on May 17, saying that he thinks officials are withholding information from Americans on UFOs, also known as Unidentified Aerial…