NASA laser communications experiment set for launch into geosynchronous orbit

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Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration on-board the U.S. military’s STPSat 6 satellite, showing laser links with a ground station and the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A $320 million NASA experiment to test high-speed laser communications links between Earth and space is poised for launch Tuesday, tagging along for a ride to …

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SpaceX resumes work on Starship launch pad at Kennedy Space Center

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Training jets fly over pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center earlier this year ahead of the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission. Credit: Inspiration4 / John Kraus Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive, says crews have started construction of the first Starship orbital launch pad in Florida inside the gates of historic launch complex 39A at …

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Fuel leak at launch pad delays Atlas 5 launch

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An Atlas 5 rocket stands on pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station before launch on the STP-3 mission. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance delayed the planned launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Sunday after discovering a kerosene fuel leak in the launch pad’s ground storage system. Officials tentatively …

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Arianespace launches Galileo navigation satellites in final mission before Webb

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A Soyuz ST-B launcher takes off from the Guiana Space Center on Saturday night with two Galileo navigation satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Deployment of Europe’s independent Galileo navigation network resumed Saturday night with an on-target launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket, the final Arianespace mission …

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SpaceX readies Falcon 9 rocket for test-firing ahead of NASA science probe launch

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SpaceX is preparing for a static fire test this weekend at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a launch Dec. 9 with the space agency’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer science mission. The test-firing of the Falcon 9 rocket is expected some time Saturday on pad 39A at the Florida spaceport. SpaceX rolled the rocket, …

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Photos: Atlas 5 rolls out to launch pad for Space Force mission

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United Launch Alliance rolled an Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Friday at Cape Canaveral in preparation for liftoff before dawn Sunday on a mission to carry two U.S. Space Force technology demonstration satellites into orbit. The 196-foot-tall (59.7-meter) rocket emerged from ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility shortly before 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) Friday. …

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SpaceX aces 27th Falcon 9 rocket flight of the year, a new record

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A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into the sky over Florida’s Space Coast on Thursday night. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now SpaceX set a new record Thursday for the most missions by the company’s Falcon rocket family in a year, successfully sending a cargo of 48 Starlink internet satellites and two BlackSky optical Earth-imaging spacecraft …

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Live coverage: SpaceX ready to launch Starlink and BlackSky satellites tonight

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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 48 Starlink broadband satellites and two commercial remote sensing satellites for BlackSky. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. A Falcon …

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Team builds first living robots that can reproduce

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AI-designed (C-shaped) organisms push loose stem cells (white) into piles as they move through their environment. Credit: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman By Joshua Brown, University of Vermont Communications To persist, life must reproduce. Over billions of years, organisms have evolved many ways of replicating, from budding plants to sexual animals to invading viruses. Now …

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Spacewalkers replace faulty antenna outside space station

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, wearing a spacesuit and mounted on the end of the space station’s robotic arm, works with a replacement S-band antenna on the lab’s port-side truss Thursday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now …

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