Next SpaceX crew launch on hold to wait for return of private astronaut mission

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Astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti inside the Crew Access Arm at Launch Complex 39A early Wednesday for a dress rehearsal. Credit: SpaceX The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the next crew to the International Space Station has been postponed from Saturday, a ripple effect from weather delays …

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Axiom’s private crew gets extra time on space station after landing delay

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The 11-person crew currently on-board the International Space Station, including the Ax-1 commercial astronauts wearing blue flight suits. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now The four-man crew flying on Axiom’s first private mission to the International Space Station is getting some extra time on the orbiting complex this week. Managers have extended their stay until …

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SpaceX rolls out Falcon 9 rocket for next NASA crew launch

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SpaceX rolls a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon crew spacecraft out of the hangar at pad 39A Tuesday morning. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky SpaceX rolled a reused Falcon 9 booster and a brand new Dragon crew capsule to their launch pad for final tests Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a day after the …

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Ingenuity’s record-breaking year transforms Mars exploration

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Credit: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter imaged by the zoomable Mastcam-Z camera on the Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The first-ever powered flights over another planet have proved a resounding success for NASA’s JPL team, which is celebrating Ingenuity’s 12-month anniversary of its first helicopter hop on Mars Tuesday. Some 25 flights later, the Ingenuity helicopter — which …

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Robotic mission to Uranus receives top priority in decadal survey

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NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the only mission to visit Uranus up close, recorded this view of the planet as it approached on Jan. 14, 1986. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In a long-awaited report released Tuesday, a panel of planetary scientists recommended NASA prioritize development of a flagship robotic mission that would orbit Uranus, a distant world with …

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NASA plans to roll first Artemis moon rocket back to hangar next week

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NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket on pad 39B. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA will move its first giant Space Launch System moon rocket off the launch pad and back to its hangar at the Kennedy Space Center as soon as next Tuesday, giving teams an opportunity to resolve several problems discovered during three attempts to load …

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Two Chinese rockets deploy telecom and environmental monitoring satellites

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A Long March 3B rocket lifts off with the Chinasat 6D communications satellite. Credit: CASC Two Chinese rocket launches hours apart Friday successfully deployed a radio and TV broadcasting spacecraft and an atmospheric environmental monitoring satellite. The missions from different spaceports lifted off a little more than six hours apart, continuing China’s 2022 launch campaign, …

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Russian cosmonauts begin spacewalk to outfit European robotic arm

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Two Russian cosmonauts put on their Orlan spacesuits and headed outside the International Space Station Monday for a spacewalk to begin outfitting a European robotic arm mounted on a Russian science module launched last year, a collaboration that’s been unaffected by souring international relations on Earth. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev opened the hatch …

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SpaceX launches and lands rocket National Reconnaissance Office mission

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A Falcon 9 booster stage returns to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, eight minutes after launching the NROL-85 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a classified payload at dawn Sunday for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government’s …

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