Tagged: space

Boeing and NASA are getting ready to make a second attempt at launching its Starliner astronaut taxi to the International Space Station. The uncrewed CST-100 Starliner space capsule is scheduled to launch to the space station on July 30 at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT),...

The commercialization of the final frontier continues apace. Last week, the companies Nanoracks LLC and Artemis Music Entertainment teamed up to beam a recording of composer Claude Debussy’s piano masterpiece “Clair de Lune” (“Moonlight”) to and from the International Space Station. Music has been sent...

The Crew Dragon capsule Resilience leaves a fiery trail above Mexico as it hurtles through Earth’s atmosphere, returning four astronauts, members of the Crew-1 mission, to Earth after more than five months in space. The picture was taken by the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut...

Friday, July 2, 2021: Massive wildfires in western Canada triggered by a record-breaking heatwave have been captured by the European Sentinel-2 satellite on Thursday (July 1). Sentinel-2 orbits Earth at the altitude of 490 miles (786 kilometers) but the wildfires were so massive that they...

Friday, July 23, 2021: British astrophotographer Martin Lewis captured Russia’s Multipurpose Laboratory Module Nauka in orbit a few hours after its launch to the International Space Station. Lewis, who posts his images on the website Skyinspector.co.uk, took the photo shortly after 10 pm BST on Wednesday...

Monday, July 26, 2021: Wildfires ravaging the western U.S. can be seen in this image taken from aboard the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei on Saturday (July 24). “Very sad to see these fires in the Western United States late Saturday afternoon,”...

Europe’s powerful Ariane 5 rocket will fly for the first time in nearly a year today (July 30), and you can watch the liftoff live. An Ariane 5 topped with two communications satellites is scheduled to launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, this...

Gareth Dorrian, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University Three astronauts on China’s new space station have performed the country’s first spacewalk and are busy configuring the module for future crews. Named Tiangong...

There are over 20,000 known and tracked pieces of space debris orbiting Earth, each one traveling at about 15,000 mph (24,000 km/h). They pose a risk to future space missions, and nobody is bothering to clean it up. Why? Because it’s too hard. In the...

The International Space Station tilts slightly due to an unexpected event, researchers view the light from behind a black hole for the first time and scientists worry that climate change could worsen with the growth of space tourism. . Nauka module causes the International Space...