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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA science probes on March 11, 2025 in a spectacular nighttime liftoff from ...
The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory is currently scheduled to launch in 2029. The spacecraft will perform a gravity assist maneuver at Jupiter, altering its course to enter a high-inclination orbit ...
Four suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, passed all final evaluations and are now loaded into the faring awaiting launch into low Earth orbit no earlier ...
More than 500 posters belonging to U.S. collector Dwight Cleveland are being offered for sale from a variety of well-known ...
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. MIT researchers calculated that as global ...
From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites will observe the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, and the resulting solar wind. The evening launch was delayed two weeks because of rocket ...
The first flight of the Spectrum rocket will attempt to reach a polar orbit, flying north from Andøya Spaceport. Located at approximately 69 degrees north latitude, the spaceport is poised to ...
It’s really, really cold again — as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Winter, which is warming faster than any other season for much of the ...