India sent its XPoSat X-ray observatory into orbit on New Year’s Day, in what was the first launch of 2024 worldwide. A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 9:10 a.m. Indian Standard Time on Jan. 1 (0340 GMT, or 10:40 p.m. EST on Dec. 31). The X-ray […]
SpaceX is poised to launch a Swedish broadband satellite tonight (Jan. 3) on the company’s second mission of 2024, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Ovzon 3 satellite is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a 10-minute window that opens at […]
A 50-year-old Texas man who allegedly walked away from a prison camp at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth has been arrested and charged with one count of escaping from custody, according to court documents. James Thompson, who was serving a sentence for mail fraud, was discovered missing and believed to have escaped from the satellite […]
Shortly after sunset Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to propel off the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and lift Ovzon 3 — the first privately funded and developed Swedish geostationary broadband-internet satellite — into orbit. “It’s also the most powerful GEO satellite ever to be put into orbit covering 1/3 […]
Rocket debris from China’s recent satellite launch fell to ground near inhabited areas, where bystanders caught the fiery touchdown on tape. The China National Space Administratio launched two satellites into orbit on Monday (Dec. 25) at 10:26 p.m. EST (0326 GMT Dec. 26 or 11:26 a.m. local time in China) from the Xichang Satellite Launch […]
CEDAR PARK, Texas – Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace has launched its fourth alpha rocket in California. The rocket lifted off this morning from Vandenburg Space Force Base on a mission called “Fly the Lightning.” It’s taking a Lockheed Martin satellite to an orbit that is relatively close to the earth’s surface. RELATED: Cedar Park company […]
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rejected talks with the U.S. at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Thursday following weeks of deteriorating relations. In the last two weeks, Pyongyang launched a spy satellite violating resolutions set by the U.N. and withdrew from the 2018 military pact with South Korea that […]
While watching the atmosphere of seven “hot Jupiters” blow away, a suitcase-sized cubesat has found some surprising variations in how quickly the giant, bloated worlds are evaporating. CUTE, which stands for the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment, was launched in September 2021 and orbits the Earth at an altitude of 525 kilometers (326 miles). It is […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — California-based Rocket Lab, which specializes in putting small satellites into orbit, launched a Japanese satellite on Friday from the space company’s complex on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The mission, named “The Moon God Awakens,” was initially scheduled for Wednesday but was postponed due to forecast strong winds. The Electron rocket […]