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Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft suffered damage at the International Space Station (ISS) in December when a leak caused it to lose a large amount of coolant. Following an investigation, NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, decided to send a replacement Soyuz spacecraft on February 20. But the unusual incident left the…

Elon Musk’s owned SpaceX has officially launched its Starlink satellite internet services in Nigeria, making Nigeria the first Africa country to have Starlink. Recall that SpaceX had announced back in May, 2022 that it had gained approval from the Nigerian government to begin operation in the country and on January…

Vice President Kamala Harris will award former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 4:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Hurley and Behnken will receive the award for bravery in NASA’s SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 (Demo-2) to the International Space Station in 2020...Read…

Home References Spaceflight The Polaris Dawn crew, from left to right: Anna Menon, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis. (Image credit: Polaris Program/John Kraus) Polaris Dawn is the gate-opener mission to the larger Polaris Program, a set of at least three anticipated missions bankrolled by a billionaire.  The…

Honoring our fallen heroes … Working on a nuclear option for space travel … And the next crewed mission to the space station …  A few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Day of Remembrance: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance…

SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk told jurors on Monday he was sure he had locked up financial support from Saudi investors in 2018 to take his electric car maker Tesla Inc. private, and could even have used his stake in rocket company SpaceX to fund a buyout. At the trial…

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket at the LC-2 pad in Virginia.Photo: Rocket Lab Observers along the U.S. East Coast could be in for a treat this week, as Rocket Lab is set to perform the first launch of an Electron rocket from its new Virginia launch pad. Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and…

McMurdo Station houses anywhere from 100 to 1,000 scientists and staff at a given time, but some of those researchers venture out to field camps. Image: Wirestock Creators (Shutterstock) Elon Musk’s Starlink is getting even closer to a widespread reality. The satellite internet constellation from SpaceX is now steadily beaming…

On Nov. 26, 2022 a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket departed from departed from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. Among the 7,700 pounds of cargo on board, it is safe to say that the smallest delivery that day were a bunch of…

HELSINKI — A Chinese launch startup has performed hot fire tests as part of development of a planned reusable stainless-steel rocket apparently inspired by SpaceX’s Starship. Space Epoch recently performed a series of tests of a 4.2-meter-diameter stainless steel propellant tank combined with a Longyun-70 methane-liquid oxygen engine developed by…