Apr. 11—Two South Dakota teachers have been selected to participate in a NASA Liftoff Summer Institute program. Bree Oatman, a high school science teacher at Lower Brule High School, along with Mike O’Connell, a middle school science teacher at Chester Area School, were chosen to attend this nationally competitive program sponsored by NASA’s Texas Space […]
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Wednesday morning (April 10). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday at 1:40 a.m. EDT (0540 GMT). About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket’s first stage came back to Earth, touching […]
SpaceX said it successfully deployed 23 new Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit early Wednesday. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites lifted off at 1:40 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Following the launch, SpaceX also confirmed a successful booster landing on droneship “Just Read the Instructions,” stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX said […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Three crew members are safe after their scheduled launch to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was automatically aborted Thursday morning, according to a live NASA broadcast. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, […]
A Japanese company’s first orbital launch attempt ended in a dramatic failure just seconds after liftoff on Wednesday. The 18-meter-long, four-stage Kairos solid rocket lifted off from Space Port Kii in Kushimoto, western Japan at 10:01 p.m. EDT March 12 (0201 GMT or 11:01 a.m. Japan time on March 13). The flight ended abruptly seconds […]
March 13 (UPI) — A rocket developed by Japan’s startup company Space One exploded seconds after liftoff on Wednesday, bringing a dramatic end to what was to be the Kairos rocket’s maiden launch. Topped with a satellite, the 60-foot-long, solid-fuel rocket by Tokyo-based Space One launched at 11:01 a.m. local time from Space Port Kii […]
Kicking off a Florida-California SpaceX scheduled launch doubleheader, a Falcon 9 rocket vaulted off the pad Sunday night on another Starlink satellite mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The 230-foot rocket lifted off at 7:05 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 40, deploying 23 more Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit. Fifty-five minutes before liftoff, […]
Blue Origin’s powerful new rocket has gone vertical on the launch pad for testing, ahead of a possible debut flight later this year. The New Glenn rocket from Blue Origin rolled out on to Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday (Feb. 21), the company founded by Amazon’s […]
The private Peregrine lunar lander is scheduled to launch toward the moon on Jan. 8, and you can prepare for the mission with prelaunch events this week. Peregrine, built by the Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic, will launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 2:18 a.m. EST (0718 GMT) […]