SAMPEX: 20 Years Watching the Sun
SAMPEX mission patch (Credits: NASA). The Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, or SAMPEX, is ending its long operational... Read more →
Spaceflight Incidents and Close Calls in Human Spaceflight
This remarkable graphic keeps track of all safety issues that have occurred from the beginning of manned spaceflight through today. The graphic is... Read more →
Where NASA Tests Spacecraft Landing, the Old Fashioned Way
Looking down the barrel of the gun at NASA's ballistic range (Credits: Boffin Media). BBC correspondent Richard Hoolingham had the opportunity to... Read more →
SpaceX Transitions to Third Commercial Crew Phase
Source: NASA. Superdraco engine firing at SpaceX (Credits: SpaceX). Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed its first three... Read more →
Flight of a Grasshopper
On November 3, SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared this video of the company's Grasshopper rocket on its first flight using closed loop thrust vector and... Read more →
Communication Satellites, Delayed by Breeze-M Failure, Now Deployed
Blast off of Proton-M/Breeze-M on November 2 from Baikonour Cosmodrome (Credits: Khrunichev). On Friday November 2, a Proton rocket with... Read more →