Space start-up Astrobotic has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the Moon in late 2023. Griffin will be carrying NASA’s water-hunting Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). “Getting to the Moon isn’t just about building a spacecraft, but having a complete mission solution,” Daniel Gillies, Griffin Mission 1 Director […]

NASA has again decided to delay the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first experimental flight due to technical concerns. The US space agency, which is yet to declare a new date for the attempt, earlier rescheduled the flight after a test completed earlier than planned. The Ingenuity team has now identified a software solution for the command […]

Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk has sought to not only land the first woman on the Moon but also the first person of color under the Artemis program. The Artemis III mission is expected to launch the first woman and next man to the Moon in 2024. The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Administration submitted to Congress […]

Russia’s Soyuz capsule with a manned spacecraft named after Yuri Gagarin blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on Friday for the International Space Station (ISS). Nearly nine minutes after a successful launch of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space […]

Mars had drier and wetter eras before drying up completely about three billion years ago, says a new study which suggests that the Red Planet did not dry up all at once. The findings are based on data from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover which continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp on the Red […]

NASA has decided to cover the launch of the Soyuz Rocket launch on NASA Television, its website, and the NASA app. The rocket is supposed to launch at 3:42 a.m. EDT (12:42 p.m. in Baikonur), and then lift-off will take place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This will be a manned mission, and the […]

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has completed its last flyover of Bennu and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid, the US space agency has said. The flyover was completed at around 6 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, but the mission team will have to wait a few more days to find out how the spacecraft changed […]

SpaceX has always been the first to develop numerous innovative ideas and successful space projects since its foundation. Now, they have started to build their very own launchpad GSE tank using the parts of Starship and install the very first tank at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities. This may seem a very ordinary […]

The team of scientists and engineers behind NASA’s Curiosity rover has named a hill along the rover’s path on Mars in honor of recently deceased mission scientist Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez. A craggy hump that stretches 120 meters tall, “Rafael Navarro Mountain” is located on Mount Sharp in northwest Gale Crater, NASA said on Monday. Navarro-Gonzalez died […]

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has survived the first cold Martian night ahead of its maiden flight on the Red Planet scheduled for April 11, the US space agency has said. Surviving that first night after being deployed from where it was attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover on April 3 is a major […]