A nearly 60-foot rocket scheduled to launch later this week in Virginia could be visible along the Eastern Seaboard. Rocket Lab's Electron, a 59-foot rocket weighing 28,000 pounds, is set to blast off from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 2:40 a.m. Thursday, March 21, with a four-hour launch window running through 6:30 a.m., NASA said. It's beginning to feel a lot likelaunch week! We’re targeting no earlier than 2:40 a.m. EDT, March 21 to launch #NROL123 'Live and Let Fly' on...
China’s busy space activity may exacerbate tensions with neighboring countries that could be in range of falling bits of rocket debris.
United Launch Alliance will launch a spy satellite for the 16th and final
Follow FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live updates of tonight’s upcoming SpaceX Starlink Falcon 9 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on the Starlink 7-16 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 7:28 p.m. on March 18.Here is its contrail over Santa Barbara at 7:37 p.m. with the first quarter moon accompanied by the Gemini Twins, Castor and Pollux.
The Houston Rockets’ remarkable turnaround continues.
A little under a year ago, it looked like Venus was off the table for NASA. President Biden’s budget request for 2024 severely reduced funding for the mission, putting it in a “deep freeze.” Today, though, the space agency is once again all systems go for an exploration of one of Earth’s closest neighbors. The VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) mission is back on the schedule, with only a slight delay, the result of some budget shuffling and some...
Ten days ago, Southern Californians stared bemused at the streak of light above Los Angeles at sunset. Was it a UFO? A missile? A space laser? Tonight, you can be the know-it-all who tells them what's happening: Another SpaceX rocket launch is scheduled to light up the night sky. In a statement, SpaceX announced that the private spacecraft manufacturer headquartered in Hawthorne will attempt to launch a "Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. If...
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) neutralized the location from which Hamas previously launched rockets towards the city of Ash
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A SpaceX rocket launched Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Santa Barbara left a long trail of exhaust that was illuminated by the setting sun.
A pro-Ukraine political campaign committee has launched to boost lawmakers who are supportive of the country as it attempts to fend off Russia’s invasion. The new group, dubbed American Ukraine PAC, is headed by Jed Sunden, the founder of Kyiv Post, the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, which he owned from 1995 to 2009. “We