Browsing: Spaceflight & Orbital

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — For over 20 years, NASA’s Swift space observatory has been conducting prolific science in orbit, hunting for signs of gamma-ray bursts —…

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere. NASA announced June 18 that…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the NROL-179 mission.…

Astronomers have traced a high-energy “ghost particle” back to Shadow Blaster, a star-forming galaxy located 11 billion light-years away. That means that this particle, a neutrino,…

WASHINGTON — Private equity firm EQT is acquiring Exolaunch, a company that has handled the rideshare launches of hundreds of satellites, to help it meet growing…

Astronomers have discovered chemical differences between binary stars that indicate one is a cosmic cannibal that has devoured at least one planet.Binary stars should have the…

Updated 8:30 p.m. Eastern with NASA statement. WASHINGTON — Relativity Space plans to launch a Mars orbiter in 2028 as part of a new initiative to…

An Arianespace Ariane 64 rocket lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to begin the Leo Europe 03 mission for Amazon Leo. This mission carried…

Let’s all meet up in the year 2000! It was a tumultuous decade for the world, but we can’t deny that the new millennium brought with…

VENICE, Italy — China continued its accelerated launch pace with a series of missions, but long silence followed liftoff of a Kuaizhou-11 solid rocket Wednesday, suggesting…