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SpaceX is now planning to attempt the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket around the end of this month, the company’s chief executive said Jan. 4.
SpaceX plans to launch its huge new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in January 2018. See photos of the powerful booster and its unusual payload here.
If you needed a reminder that SpaceX is about to debut its huge new Falcon Heavy rocket, here you go.
Backers of NASA’s next great observatory contemplate its worst-case scenarios
The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) is sponsoring a “live on green event” guessing game. Entrants can compete for Aerospace swag with the…
A report by the Wall Street Journal suggests the secret Zuma satellite launched by SpaceX Sunday night (Jan. 7) has failed. But SpaceX’s president Gwynne Shotwell says the Falcon 9…
Savvy space warriors like Russia’s military already are giving us a taste of the future. They are jamming GPS navigation signals, disrupting satellite communications links and sensors in…
In the past 100 years, humanity went from fantasizing about ray guns to actually seeing some go „pew pew“ for real.
In the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress weakened the Air Force secretary’s power to set military space priorities and influence programs.
International Spacestation (ISS) /
Internationale Raumstation
ESA-Astronaut Alexander Gerst schwebt durch das europäische Columbus-Laboratorium der Internationalen Raumstation ISS. Das Bild ist im Jahre 2014 während seines ersten Fluges aufgenommen…
Robotics controllers have completed the science cargo transfers from the rear of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship, also known as its trunk. Dragon is due to depart the International Space…
The Expedition 54 crew is starting the New Year studying how humans adapt to living in space for months and years at a time. NASA and its international partners are also learning how to…
Robotics controllers are getting ready to uninstall the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft from the International Space Station on Friday before releasing it for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean…
Earth / Erde
According to an extensive, 700-page report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, space observations are crucial to solving the challenges posed by climate.
NASA’s GOLD mission, flying to space Jan. 25 attached to a communications satellite, will examine the boundary between Earth and space.
The bottom of the ocean is more of a „sunken place“ than it used to be.
As a powerful bomb cyclone winter storm curls across the U.S. East Coast this morning (Jan. 4), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-East satellite is…
Four more satellites are set to join the European Galileo Navigation Satellite System on Tuesday, targeting liftoff at 18:36 UTC atop an Ariane 5 ES rocket blasting off from French Guiana….
Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse launch vehicle rolled to the ELA-3 launch pad at the Guiana Space Center on December 11, 2017 in preparation for launch with the second group of four Galileo…
Solar System / Sonnensystem
This montage of 365 images shows the changing activity of our Sun through the eyes of ESA’s Proba-2 satellite during 2017, along with a partial eclipse for good measure.The images were…
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter when it captured this mind-bending, color-enhanced view of the planet’s tumultuous atmosphere.
Jupiter’s twirling, swirling, candy-colored clouds are once again on display in new images from NASA’s Juno probe that were processed by citizen scientists.
The countdown to New Horizons‘ historic second flyby has now begun in earnest.
China is pressing forward on its Chang’e 4 lunar probe, which is scheduled to be launched in the latter half of this year. The spacecraft will attempt the first-ever soft landing on the…
Politics / Politik
„SpaceX founder Elon Musk tried to get a newly elected Donald Trump on board with his company’s mission to reach Mars, according to an excerpt from a new book on the Trump administration…
„U.S. scientists plan to release their once-a-decade list of recommended Earth observation spending priorities Friday in a press conference in Washington, D.C. The scientific community…
„Latest Action 01/03/2018 – Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.“
A recent report recommends that NASA develop ISS transition plans and make use of alternative platforms to carry out critical microgravity research.
The White House formally resubmitted nominations for leaders of NASA and NOAA to the Senate Jan. 8, a procedural move before they can be confirmed.
– James Bridenstine, of Oklahoma, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, vice Charles F. Bolden, Jr., resigned.
Technology / Technologie
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:00 UTC on January 8, 2018 with the classified Zuma payload for Northrop Grumman and an unnamed U.S….
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral under a veil of darkness Sunday night, both literally and figuratively with launch occurring at 1:00 UTC Monday…
SpaceX lofted the super-secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government tonight (Jan. 8), successfully executing a mission that also featured yet another landing by the first stage of the…
„A media query to Northrop Grumman, which manufactured the satellite, was not immediately returned Monday. (Update: Tim Paynter, Vice President of Strategic Communications for Northrop…
The U.S. government’s hush-hush Zuma satellite may have run into some serious problems during or shortly after its Sunday launch (Jan. 7), according to media reports.
The last heard of the enigmatic Zuma spacecraft was it was well on its way into orbit Sunday night, soaring away from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Falcon 9’s first stage made an…
United Launch Alliance is gearing up for the final West Coast launch of the single-stick Delta IV rocket, planned from Vandenberg’s SLC-6 at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday with the classified…
NASA’s commercial crew program will likely start test flights in 2018, some seven years after the last human spaceflight lifted off from American soil.
NASA engineers are working on a new design for off-Earth rover wheels.
NASA scientists have built a flexible metal tire that could be used on Mars or even on Earth.
See images of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, which the agency plans to launch in July 2018. The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
China opened its 2018 space launch campaign on Tuesday with the launch of the second pair of GaoJing Earth-Imaging Satellites joining the growing SuperView constellation delivering…
World / Welt
ASA hopes to have a major astronomy mission back on track by April after completing efforts to reduce its cost, an agency official said Jan. 8.
Twenty five years after its founding, a NASA astronaut’s hometown museum is looking to expand — just in time to mark a half century since its namesake’s flight to the moon. The Stafford…
Fifty years after the first human flights to the moon, researchers have taken a new look at the Apollo missions, or more appropriately, a new listen. Scientists have made thousands of hours…
NASA is marking its 60th anniversary with a new commemorative logo. The U.S. aviation and space agency revealed the official logo, which it described as showing „how NASA is building on…
RAUMFAHRTMEDIZIN Weltraumfieber in Schwerelosigkeit Redaktion / Pressemitteilung der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin astronews.com 8. Januar 2018
Wednesday (Jan.10) is the last day for U.S. citizens to submit nominations for an advisory group to the National Space Council.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has long served as America’s spaceport, hosting all of the nation’s manned spaceflights since the late 1960s.
Scientists gathering for the country’s largest astronomy meeting will discuss plans for future space telescopes and raise questions about upcoming missions.
„Draw up a list of the world’s most accomplished and experienced astronauts, and astrophysicist Dr Michael Foale’s name is going to come pretty near the top. … Now more than 20 years…
Science / Wissenschaft
If we find microbes on Mars, it will be difficult to exclude the possibility that we have accidentally brought them there from Earth.
If you heard that NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity just spotted signs of life on the Red Planet — well, don’t get your hopes up.
History / Geschichte
Astronauts who flew on space missions with John Young, and others who followed him to space, have paid tribute to their friend and colleague, who was the ninth person to walk on the moon…
John Young, NASA’s longest-serving astronaut, who walked on the moon and flew on the first Gemini and space shuttle missions, has died. He was 87.
NASA astronaut John Young, who died Jan. 5, is remembered for a small scandal after he smuggled a corned-beef sandwich into space.
„The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the passing of John Young, who died Friday night following complications from pneumonia at the age of 87….
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