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Orbital ATK successfully launched an Antares 230 rocket from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located on NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Sunday, November 12, 2017.
The Cygnus S.S. Gene Cernan arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday for a robotic capture and berthing to become a temporary part of the orbiting laboratory for the delivery…
The Expedition 53 astronauts are continuing to unload several thousand pounds of space cargo from the new Cygnus resupply ship that arrived Tuesday morning. Some of the new science cargo…
The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship was bolted into place on the International Space Station’s Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 7:15 a.m. EST. The spacecraft will spend about three…
Twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly were separated for almost a year, undergoing intensive measurements when one was in space and one was on Earth. But that was only the beginning of their…
The more we learn about Pluto, the more interesting the little world becomes. Hydrocarbon particles in Pluto’s atmosphere are responsible for the dwarf planet’s surprisingly low…
SEATTLE – A privately funded team may beat NASA to the punch when it comes to looking for life on the Saturn moon Enceladus. Breakthrough Initiatives – a program founded by billionaire tech…
Eine bemannte Mission zum Mars gilt als nächster großer Schritt bei der Erkundung des Sonnensystems durch den Menschen. Die Besatzung einer solchen Expedition müsste dazu lange Zeit in…
International Spacestation (ISS) /
Internationale Raumstation
The Expedition 53 crew is working out on a new exercise device today and testing new lights for their impact on health. Back on Earth, a new resupply rocket stands at its launch pad ready…
Two astronauts are training for Monday’s planned arrival of Orbital ATK’s newest Cygnus cargo craft dubbed the S.S. Eugene Cernan. The crew is also analyzing the International Space…
A Cygnus cargo spacecraft will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) this Saturday (Nov. 11) to deliver supplies and some fascinating science experiments to the Expedition 53…
Orbital ATK is gearing up for the company’s second Cygnus mission of the year, targeting liftoff atop an upgraded Antares 200-series rocket Saturday morning from the Wallops Flight…
The launch of Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket carrying the company’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft had to be scrubbed at the last minute on Saturday due to a rogue aircraft entering the closed…
The International Space Station will receive about 7,400 pounds of cargo, including new science and technology investigations, following the successful launch of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus…
An Antares rocket thundered off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore Sunday morning after a year-long break, carrying into orbit the eighth operational Cygnus cargo spacecraft headed to the…
On Nov. 12, 2017, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket launched a Cygnus cargo ship on the OA-8 resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. See photos of the stunning launch and…
The commercial spaceflight company Orbital ATK successfully launched an Antares rocket today (Nov. 12), providing a Sunday morning spectacle for early birds along the U.S. east coast….
Astronauts have green thumbs, too! For the first time, an International Space Station project is growing three distinct plant crops simultaneously in space. And just a few days ago,…
The Milky Way photographed by the astronauts of Expedition 52/53 on August 13th, 2017. Images: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit – NASA/JPL Music: Airglow by Stellardrone – Album: Light…
Earth / Erde
Imagine drifting over Antarctica’s icy expanse. A white continent extends below you, and it’s smothered in enough frozen water to drown every coastline in the world in a 216-foot (66…
DLR bei der Agritechnica in Hannover Helfer aus dem All – Satellitenkarten für die Landwirtschaft Satellitenkarten können den Landwirten großflächige Informationen über den Zustand von…
Solar System / Sonnensystem
Oberflächenstrukturen auf Ceres verraten offenbar mehr über die Entwicklung im Inneren des Zwergplanten, als man vielleicht vermuten mag. Darauf deutet zumindest eine Analyse bestimmter…
Dawn’s mission is managed by JPL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate’s Discovery Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight…
A NASA spacecraft watching the sun has captured a rare view of a true space oddity: something scientists call an “encircling filament” near a “hole” in Earth’s parent star. The filament,…
Nestled in the asteroid belt, the dwarf planet Ceres contains water-rich materials that suggest it once boasted a global ocean in its distant past. Now, two new studies from NASA’s Dawn…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers…
Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is a swirling, curling sea of colorful clouds in a new image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft and two citizen scientists. The new image comes from data collected by…
Beyond Solar System / Milchstraße & Kosmos
It did not go quietly into the night: An exploding star left behind an echo of light, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. In a sequence of images captured over the course of two years,…
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What seemed at first like a rare instance of a huge, ancient galaxy revealed itself to be an even rarer pair of extremely massive galaxies, seen on the brink of merging when the Universe…
Über die Entstehung von Sternen in unserer kosmischen Nachbarschaft wissen Astronomen schon relativ viel. Doch wie entstanden Sterne im jungen Universum? Bei Beobachtungen wurden in…
Politics / Politik
WASHINGTON – A day after NASA announced a new launch date for the first flight of the Space Launch System, the chairman of the House Science Committee said he found the development delays…
Answers From Rep Bridenstine To Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Questions for the Record Question: Mr. Bridenstine, in the documents you presented to the Committee,…
Bridenstine Nomination APproved by Committee on Party-Line Vote, SpacePolicyOnline “The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee approved the nomination of Rep. Jim…
Technology / Technologie
The venerable Delta II rocket – once the most-flown U.S. launch vehicle – is on the verge of closing out a remarkable career of almost three decades, debuting back in 1989 and keeping up an…
ULA’s Delta II rocket was forced to abandon a nighttime launch attempt from California in the early hours on Tuesday due to a technical issue with the rocket’s second stage engine actuator…
The penultimate Delta II rocket encountered a second launch scrub on Wednesday, keeping the first satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System grounded for at least another day, possibly…
China successfully launched the Fengyun-3D weather satellite into a polar orbit on Tuesday, along with the first satellite for private Chinese company Head Aerospace. The Long March 4C…
China launched a Long March 4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 18:35 UTC on Tuesday, carrying into orbit the Fengyun-3D weather satellite, joining China’s polar-orbiting…
Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will rely on a special parachute to…
Schon 2020 will die NASA einen neuen Rover zum Mars schicken, der den Roten Planeten erkunden und unter anderem nach Spuren früheren Lebens Ausschau halten soll. Damit die Landung auf der…
A key safety system on NASA’s Orion spacecraft – one that could save lives during launch – will undergo a major test sooner than expected, the agency announced last week. The Orion…
Keith’s note: NASA poured lots of money into its R5 robot that cannot walk unless it is on a hoist and controlled by a human. It is always broken. So they gave away these broken droids to…
Dream Chaser Completes Free Flight Test “Completion of Dream Chaser’s free flight test on Nov. 11, 2017, was a major milestone under a space act agreement with NASA’s Commercial Crew…
SpaceX’s planned launch of a secret Zuma payload for the U.S. government has been delayed at least 24 hours to Thursday, company representatives said today (Nov. 15). A SpaceX Falcon 9…
ESA engineers test and debug ground control software and equipment, identifying and solving problems before a current or future mission can be affected.They work close to real mission…
esa.int
The forward-leaning technology arm of the U.S. Defense Department is betting that in just a few years, the business of sending robots to high orbit to repair and refresh satellites will be…
Dangerous radiation. Overstuffed pantries. Cabin fever. NASA could sidestep many of the impediments to a Mars mission if they could just get there faster. But sluggish chemical rockets…
A new NASA competition, the Earth and Space Air Prize, will reward the best aerosol-sensor design, intended to help protect astronauts on the International Space Station. Aerosols are tiny…
An explosion occurred during a test of a SpaceX Merlin engine on Saturday (Nov. 4) at the company’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, according to a statement obtained by Space.com. “No one…
WASHINGTON – Arianespace completed the company’s tenth launch this year Nov. 7, delivering a Moroccan Earth observation satellite to low-Earth orbit on a Vega rocket. The mission,…
SpaceX suffered a minor setback when a Merlin engine designed for the upcoming Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket failed during testing last Saturday and caused damage to the test chamber at the…
SpaceX successfully conducted the Static Fire Test of the Falcon 9 rocket tasked with the ultra-secretive Zuma mission as early as Wednesday night from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy…
The Brazilian Tancredo-1 PicoSatellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on October 18, 2017 after a free-flying mission of ten months, launching aboard the Tu-POD 3U CubeSat operated by Gauss…
The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Progress MS-07 spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Monday, October 16, 2017…
The Molniya 1K-44 Communications Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on October 23, 2017 after 38 years in orbit, slowly decaying from its elliptical Molniya Orbit that once peaked around…
ABRIXAS – A Broadband Imaging X-Ray All-Sky Survey – re-entered the atmosphere on October 31, 2017 after more than 18 years in orbit. The 550-Kilogram satellite, built by OHB Systems for…
Entertainment / Unterhaltung
One hundred and 15 years after the historic Apollo 11 mission landed the first astronauts on the moon, tourists visit “Tranquility Base” and stay at a sprawling commercial base, at least as…
Actress Rosario Dawson has moved from treating superheroes to an audio treatment of “Artemis” (Crown, 2017), the new book by “The Martian” (Crown, 2014) author Andy Weir. Dawson is known…
Great musicians have the ability to transport their listeners to new worlds (metaphorically, at least) and guide them to new mindsets using sounds and lyrics. There are few musicians on…
Weltraum-Kinotag in Darmstadt am Sonntag, 19. November Das KINOPOLIS Darmstadt und das Europäische Satellitenkontrollzentrum der ESA (ESOC) veranstalten am Sonntag, 19. November 2017…
World / Welt
In emails, NASA denies child slave ring on Mars, confirms politician-eating tentacle monster on Europa, Muckrock “Back in July, (alleged) former Central Intelligence Agency officer and…
More than half of all NASA astronauts, past and present, are military veterans. So it is fitting that in honor of Veterans Day, current and former astronauts have shared warm messages to…
The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will hold a Subcommittee on Space hearing titled, An Update on NASA Exploration Systems Development. The purpose of the hearing is…
NASA Completes Review of First SLS, Orion Deep Space Exploration Mission “While the review of the possible manufacturing and production schedule risks indicate a launch date of June 2020,…
A European astronaut now has a permanent presence in space. Luca Parmitano – who flew on the International Space Station in 2013 – has an asteroid named after him, called “37627…
SEATTLE – Suborbital space tourism and research may be just the beginning for Virgin Galactic. The private spaceflight company eventually aims to add superfast point-to-point passenger…
Science / Wissenschaft
Update for Nov. 12: The Cygnus cargo mission carrying this experiment launched on Sunday, Nov. 12. Its planned launch attempt on Nov. 11 was aborted when a wayward aircraft entered the…
Gas giant Jupiter, organic molecules in star-forming clouds and baby galaxies in the distant Universe are among the first targets for which data will be immediately available from the James…
History / Geschichte
Vorläufer des DLR im November 1907 in Göttingen gegründet Vor 110 Jahren wurde in Göttingen die Wiege der Luftfahrtforschung gegründet. Schwerpunkt(e): Luftfahrt, Verkehr, Raumfahrt,…
It stood taller than the Statue of Liberty, was more massive than six Boeing 747 jetliners and generated more thrust than two dozen of the jumbo jets. The tallest, heaviest and most…
On Nov. 9, 1967, NASA launched the first Saturn V moon rocket test flight: Apollo 4. See photos of the launch, and Earth from space, from the amazing Apollo 4 mission here. This image:…
NASA’s incredible Saturn V rocket propelled dozens of humans toward Earth’s moon. The rocket’s first flight, for the Apollo 4 mission, took place 50 years ago, on Nov. 9, 1967. The rocket…
