If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. Live coverage of the countdown and launch Japan’s Epsilon rocket with seven small Japanese […]
The stars may have some competition. A Russian startup by the name of StartRocket is planning to launch glowing billboards into the night sky, in order to help advertise the big-name companies and brands that already dominate our lives on Earth. The billboards comprise of small, light-emitting satellites – CubeSats, to be precise – which […]
Artist’s depiction of the artificial meteor shower, which may or may not look like this. Illustration: ALE Tomorrow morning, an Epsilon-4 rocket will blast off from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center in Japan. Onboard is a satellite capable of generating artificial meteor showers by dropping tiny pellets from orbit. The resulting light show should produce […]
It may be the classic response from IT departments around the world, but turning it off and on again really does work – even for the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA has confirmed that resetting the aging telescope’s main camera appears to have fixed an issue that left it offline. Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera […]
2019 may finally be the year when American astronauts launch to orbit from American soil again, ending an eight-year drought that started when NASA’s Space Shuttle program shut down in 2011. The inaugural flights of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program are slated to take place in the coming months, and the launches will see privately owned […]
(Digital India Preview) Black holes are some of the most fascinating features of our universe, but they’re also not very well understood. studying distant black holes in any great detail is very tough due to the fact that nothing, including light, can escape their grasp once its gets too close. Now, a black hole sitting […]
Earth’s north magnetic pole is on the move, unpredictably lurching away from the Canadian Arctic and toward Siberia. It’s wandered so much, that the current representation of the entire globe’s magnetic field, just updated in 2015, is now out of date. And so, geologists have come up with a new model. This updated […]
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The imposing asteroid, dubbed by NASA Asteroid 2019 AR2, will make a so-called “Earth Close Approach”. Asteroid orbit calculations predict the space rock will reach its closest distance to Earth in just a few hours. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) expects Asteroid AR2 will swing by around 2.28pm on Sunday, January 13. The unexpected flyby comes […]
The Spektr-R radio telescope at Baikonur Space Center, within the integration and test complex of Launch Pad No.31. Photo: RIA Novosti (Wikimedia Commons) Russia’s only orbiting space radio telescope, Spektr-R (RadioAstron), has stopped responding to the spacecraft’s control staff, the BBC reported Saturday, though Astro Space Centre chief Nikolai Kardashev told the BBC that it […]
