News Archive / Tagged: The Range

• NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope mission nears end

  Jim SharkeyJune 17th, 2019

  While criticism of NASA's efforts frequently focuses on cost overruns or delays, what is sometimes missed is that many missions have far exceeded how long program managers had believed they would be operating. The Spitzer Space Telescope is one such mission, but like all good things, it too is nearing the end.

• USAF provided with software upgrade for GPS III

  Jason RhianJune 15th, 2019

  Five months after being awarded the GPS Control Segment Sustainment II (GCS II) contract, Lockheed Martin has started delivering on that contract.

• Pass the salt shaker: Key ingredient of life found on Europa

  Laurel KornfeldJune 14th, 2019

  A new study has identified yellow regions on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa as sodium chloride or table salt, which may originate in the large moon's underground ocean.

• Design phase begins for Psyche mission to metal asteroid

  Laurel KornfeldJune 13th, 2019

  NASA's Psyche mission to a unique metal asteroid has attained the important milestone of being approved to begin spacecraft design and construction.

• Going back to Cali! SpaceX launches RADARSAT for Canadian Space Agency

  Jason RhianJune 12th, 2019

  LOMPOC, Calif. -- SpaceX successfully completed the company's second launch of 2019 from Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 4 East in California. Today's flight continues pushing the company's busy 2019 flight manifest.

• Spitzer mosaic depicts family of stars

  Laurel KornfeldJune 7th, 2019

  A brightly colored mosaic of nebulae in the constellation Cepheus captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope depicts a family of stars ranging from new to old.

• Booster core for historic CFT mission arrives in Florida

  Mike HowardJune 6th, 2019

  The booster core for a ULA Atlas V rocket, one tasked with a historic mission, emerged from the Delta Mariner transport ship after a voyage from the company's processing facilities located in Decatur, Alabama.

• Scientists, SpaceX debate Starlink satellites’ impact on night sky

  Laurel KornfeldJune 4th, 2019

  SpaceX's launch its first 60 Starlink satellites is generating controversy about their potential impact on night sky observation and radio astronomy.

• ‘Flarewell’: Predictable Iridium flares nearing end

  Cullen DesforgesJune 3rd, 2019

  Professional and backyard astronomers alike have been observing predictable streaks, or flares, across the night sky for the better part of two decades.

• Insulation applied to final SRB segment for Artemis 2 mission

  Collin SkocikJune 1st, 2019

  NASA’s return to the Moon has taken another step forward with technicians applying insulation to the final booster segment for the second flight of the SLS.

• Gallery: Northop Grumman tests OmegA first stage

  Derek RichardsonMay 31st, 2019

  PROMONTORY, Utah — In the Blue Spring Hills north of Salt Lake City, Northrop Grumman test fired the first stage of its OmegA rocket.

• First Astrobee robot completes initial checks aboard ISS

  Jim SharkeyMay 30th, 2019

  The International Space Station's newest robotic helper, Astrobee, completed its first series of hardware tests aboard the outpost.

• OSIRIS-REx mission seeking citizen scientists’ help

  Laurel KornfeldMay 29th, 2019

  NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is seeking help from citizen scientists in choosing a site on asteroid Bennu to collect surface samples to be returned to Earth.

• Observations indicate comets may have brought water to Earth

  Laurel KornfeldMay 27th, 2019

  Observations of Comet Wirtanen by the world's largest airborne observatory support the notion that comets may have delivered water to Earth.

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for May 25, 2019

  Derek RichardsonMay 25th, 2019

  This week, SpaceX launched its first Starlink internet satellites and NASA awarded a contract to build the first piece of the agency’s Lunar Gateway.