News Archive / Tagged: The Range
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Cause of missed Falcon 9 landing announced; Starlink 17 expected to fly Thursday
Theresa CrossMarch 2nd, 2021SpaceX has announced their intention to launch the next batch of 60 Starlink satellites on March 4, 2021 – possibly as early as at 3:24 a.m. EST.
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SpaceX Starship SN10 high-altitude test flight slips to March 3
Nicholas D'AlessandroMarch 1st, 2021The high-altitude test flight of Starship SN10 has slipped again, as is common with SpaceX's highly experimental test program.
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OPINION: In spaceflight testing, what defines a failure?
Cullen DesforgesFebruary 27th, 2021Recently, several companies have made great strides in the realm of advanced spaceflight testing, despite public perception some would label a failure.
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Spaceborne Computer-2 to speed “time-to-insight” for ISS studies
Theresa CrossFebruary 26th, 2021Many different research investigations off Earth will be supported by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s pathfinding Spaceborne Computer-2, or SBC-2, to perform data processing and analytics.
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Inspiration4 mission names 2nd crew member
Cullen DesforgesFebruary 25th, 2021Cancer survivor and frontline healthcare worker for St. Jude, Hayley Arceneaux, will join Jared Isaacman as part of the four-person Inspiration4 crew.
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Artemis 1 SLS booster stacking nearing completion
Theresa CrossFebruary 11th, 2021The stacking of the twin solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Space Launch System is nearly complete with only one set of segments remaining.
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Various icy compounds make up Pluto’s atmospheric haze
Laurel KornfeldFebruary 8th, 2021Pluto's famous blue atmospheric haze likely formed differently from the hazes surrounding Saturn's moon Titan and Neptune's moon Triton, study finds.
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Amount of water on the Moon varies by location and time of day
Laurel KornfeldFebruary 6th, 2021Two Earth-based studies confirm water molecules are present on the Moon, but amounts vary depending on location and time of day, Casey Honniball of NASA.
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Asteroid naming contest sparks discussion of women in astronomy
Laurel KornfeldJanuary 26th, 2021The selection of the late astronomer Ada Amelia Carrera Rodriguez as the winner of an asteroid-naming contest sparked an online panel discussion by the contest's sponsors about the role of women in astronomy.
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Gallery: Preparations for Starship SN9 test flight continue
Nicholas D'AlessandroJanuary 25th, 2021Preflight testing for Starship SN9 appears to be complete ahead of the follow-up to last-month's unprecedented SN8 high-altitude flight.
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NASA adds New Glenn to Launch Services Program
Nicholas D'AlessandroJanuary 14th, 2021Last month, the U.S. space agency awarded a NASA Launch Services contract to Blue Origin and its New Glenn rocket.
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Moon Dialogs bring together stakeholders in near-future lunar activity
Laurel KornfeldJanuary 12th, 2021Moon Dialogs, a partnership that seeks to bring together a wide variety of stakeholders to brainstorm about near-future lunar activity, organized Zoom sessions throughout 2020 exploring the wide range of topics pertinent to policy and governance on the Moon.
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Remembering Apollo 8, celebrating Christmas from a distance
Sean CostelloDecember 24th, 2020As 2020 draws to a close, families worldwide are gathering for Christmas Eve celebrations in various degrees of isolation, driven in large part to public health restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Probe finds deep space is not completely dark
Laurel KornfeldDecember 1st, 2020Now more than four billion miles away from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, acting as a distant space observatory, has found that deep space is not entirely dark.
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Arrokoth’s flattened shape could shed light on planetesimal formation process
Laurel KornfeldNovember 15th, 2020The flattened shape of the two lobes that make up Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) visited by the New Horizons spacecraft in January 2019, may hold clues to the formation process of planetesimals and even planets.
