The Moon-bound spacecraft is apparently healthy and gearing up for its first trajectory correction maneuver.
The four-day test involved a fleet of robots that included other rovers, a stationary lander, and a centipede-like crawler.
The probe successfully escaped Earth's gravity yesterday but has since gone silent. Ground teams are now trying to reestablish contact.
The microwave-sized satellite is on a pathfinder mission to evaluate a unique orbit for an eventual space station at the Moon.
Whether it's to deliver satellites to orbit or astronauts to the Moon, the next generation of rockets are poised make space more accessible.
In orbit since 2019, LightSail 2 is expected to burn up in the atmosphere at some point within the next few months.
It’s a discouraging result, but resistance exercises could help.
A Boeing 747 carrier aircraft named Cosmic Girl will release a two-stage rocket after reaching an altitude of 35,000 feet.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starship will be ready to launch in July, but the private space company has not yet secured permission for liftoff.
The new high-res views are sweet, but the exercise suggests consumer cameras can be used to test and verify a satellite's operations, too.
The small satellite will test out an elliptical orbit for a planned space station around the Moon.
The CAPSTONE lunar satellite is scheduled to liftoff from New Zealand at 6 a.m. ET of Monday June 27.
The much-anticipated first launch of the Space Launch System could happen as early as late August.
The new launch tower is being built at Launch Complex 39A, a mere 1,000 feet from where SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rockets.
The winning concept would ideally be ready for launch by the end of the decade.
The private space company launched Starlink satellites, a military radar satellite, a satellite that takes pictures of Earth, and a mystery payload, perhaps.
An attempt to use the Cygnus freighter as an ISS booster was supposed to last for 5 minutes, but it had to be terminated after just 5 seconds.
The astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on a two-week mission.
The replica spacesuit was put together by Mythbusters host Adam Savage, with the real version expected in 2023.
Vega-C is scheduled to launch from French Guiana in July.
