News Archive / Tagged: Lead Stories
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Science and supplies soar to ISS on NG-11 Cygnus mission
Lloyd CampbellApril 17th, 2019Northrop Grumman sent its final shipment to the International Space Station under the first Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
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Science, supplies and a robot set to launch to ISS on Antares
Lloyd CampbellApril 16th, 2019Northrop Grumman's NG-11 Cygnus mission is the next flight on the runway to ferry supplies to the International Space Station.
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No booster for you! Falcon Heavy core stage topples over in rough seas
Jason RhianApril 15th, 2019A tweet made by Tim "The Everyday Astronaut" Dodd reported that the core booster of the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched April 11 has been lost to the sea.
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SpaceX racks up another win with latest NASA contract
Jason RhianApril 15th, 2019SpaceX has landed the contract to launch a historic mission for NASA, marking the latest chapter in what is turning out to be a banner year for the company.
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Stratolaunch aircraft makes 1st flight
Patrick AttwellApril 13th, 2019At 6:58 a.m. PST (13:58 GMT) April 13, 2019, the world’s largest airplane took to the skies for the first time above the Mojave Desert.
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3 landings, 1 commercial payload – SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy makes history – again
Derek RichardsonApril 11th, 2019KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — After a wait of more than a year, SpaceX’s massive Falcon Heavy rocket has finally begun launching commercial payloads.SpaceX also managed to mark another (or was it three?) notch in its milestone list with today's flight.
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Israeli Beresheet lander crashes on Moon
Laurel KornfeldApril 11th, 2019What would have been a historic first in space exploration was not meant to be as SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft failed to successfully land on the Moon.
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Lockheed Martin unveils Orion-based Moon lander concept
Heather SmithApril 11th, 2019Lockheed Martin unveiled designs for a lunar lander that could be built quickly to meet the vice president's challenge to return humans to the Moon by 2024.
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Astronomical history! First image of black hole captured
Jason RhianApril 10th, 2019Black holes were known to exist but, until recently, no images of them had ever been captured. An international network of radio telescopes has changed all that.
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NASA chief outlines 2-phase plan for Moon exploration
Derek RichardsonApril 10th, 2019During the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine outlined more of NASA’s Moon by 2024 plan.
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Astronauts route power cables during 3rd spacewalk of 2019
Derek RichardsonApril 9th, 2019During a 6.5-hour spacewalk, two International Space Station astronauts finished battery work and routed cables across the outpost.
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UPDATE: SpaceX’s 2nd Falcon Heavy to launch Arabsat-6A
Patrick AttwellApril 8th, 2019SpaceX is poised to conduct the first commercial launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket with the Arabsat-6A mission as early as this week.
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Curiosity update: Methane spike confirmed and Martian eclipses observed
Jim SharkeyApril 7th, 2019A methane spike detected by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in 2013 has been confirmed by researchers reanalyzing data captured by the Mars Express orbiter.
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Launch date of 2nd Falcon Heavy flight pushed back
Jason RhianApril 5th, 2019The first flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket with a commercial payload will have to wait a little while longer before lifting off from Kennedy Space Center.
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SpaceIL’s Beresheet now in lunar orbit
Joe LatrellApril 5th, 2019After firing its engines for six minutes, the Beresheet Moon lander transitioned from a highly-elliptical Earth orbit to a new lunar orbit.
