2024-04-24 13:00
The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) is an unpressurized rover being developed for NASA that astronauts can drive on the Moon while wearing their spacesuits.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
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2024-04-24 13:00
Solar sails are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2024-04-22 13:00
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2024-03-27 13:00
SpaceX Crew-8 is the eighth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight and the 13th overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2024-03-26 13:00
Messier 74 is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way, which is seen face-on from Earth’s vantage point some 32 million light-years away.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2024-03-25 13:00
Europa Clipper is a space probe in development by NASA. The spacecraft is being developed to study the Galilean moon Europa through a series of flybys while in orbit around Jupiter.Post from… Read More
2024-02-29 13:00
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) is a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission that will be used to identify the extent and duration of phytoplankton blooms and improve underst… Read More
2024-02-28 13:00
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) is a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission that will continue and advance observations of global ocean color, biogeochemistry, and ecology… Read More
2024-02-26 13:00
Dream Chaser is an American reusable lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Space.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2024-01-30 13:00
Starship is an American two-stage super heavy lift launch vehicle under development by the aerospace company SpaceX.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2024-01-29 13:00
The entire gamma-ray sky is unwrapped into a rectangular map, with the center of our Milky Way galaxy located in the middle, in this 14-year time-lapse of the gamma-ray sky.Post from: Orbita… Read More
2024-01-28 13:00
Inflatable habitats or expandable habitats are pressurised tent-like structures capable of supporting life in outer space whose internal volume increases after launch. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-12-24 13:00
A rotating detonation engine (RDE) is an engine using a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-12-23 13:00
The entire gamma-ray sky is shown as two circular views centered on the north (left) and south poles of our Milky Way galaxy in this 14-year time-lapse of the gamma-ray sky.Post from: Orbita… Read More
2023-12-22 13:00
Features on Mars that resemble dry riverbeds and the discovery of minerals that form in the presence of water indicate that Mars once had a dense enough atmosphere and was warm enough for li… Read More
2023-12-21 13:00
NASA is working with several American companies to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-30 13:00
These visualizations show the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2024.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-29 13:00
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is a small autonomous helicopter presently operating on the planet Mars.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-28 13:00
On November 18, 2023, SpaceX performed the second integrated near-orbital flight of its Starship rocket.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-27 13:00
SpaceX CRS-29, also known as SpX-29, is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 10 November 2023.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-08 13:00
The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size at 10 million square miles, or 26 million square kilometers, on Sept. 21, which ranks as the 16th largest since 1979, according to annu… Read More
2023-11-07 13:00
This sonification turns the orbits of a new seven-planet system, discovered by NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope, into sound.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-06 13:00
SWOT mission is a satellite altimeter jointly developed and operated by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and UK Space Agency (UKSA)… Read More
2023-11-03 13:00
The Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbed currently houses two large indoor “sandboxes” filled with tons of simulated lunar dust.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-02 13:00
The Space Launch System is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-11-01 13:00
A nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction, often nuclear fission, replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket… Read More
2023-10-31 13:00
VIPER is a lunar rover developed by NASA, and currently planned to be delivered to the surface of the Moon in November 2024.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-10-26 13:00
NASA recently built and tested a 3D printed rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-10-25 13:00
A scale model of the Mars Ascent Vehicle is tested for in the trisonic wind tunnel at Marshall.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-10-24 13:00
Lucy studies the trojans that could reveal the "fossils of planet formation": materials that clumped together in the early history of the Solar System to form planets and other bodies.Post f… Read More
2023-10-23 13:00
Psyche is a NASA space mission launched on October 13, 2023 to explore the origin of planetary cores by orbiting and studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029.Post from: Orb… Read More
2023-09-30 13:00
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly nibbling on a Sun-like star.Post from: Orbit… Read More
2023-09-29 13:00
New simulations put forth a theory of the origin of Saturn’s rings and icy moons. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-09-28 13:00
On September 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth, following a seven-year mission that saw the spacecraft travel nearly four billi… Read More
2023-09-27 13:00
On September 24, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin engineers, containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu, finally returned to Earth after its seven-year mission. Getting a… Read More
2023-07-27 13:00
LRO is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-07-26 13:00
NASA’s Starling mission is advancing the readiness of various technologies for cooperative groups of spacecraft. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-06-27 13:00
Teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have completed applying a spray-on foam insulation to the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for the Artemis III m… Read More
2023-06-26 13:00
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft successfully separates from the second stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket during NASA's SpaceX 28th commercial resupply services mission to the International S… Read More
2023-05-25 13:00
Starship is a super heavy-lift space vehicle under development by SpaceX.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-05-24 13:00
The animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-05-23 13:00
The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission move their Dragon Endeavour spacecraft between docking ports on the International Space Station.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-04-30 13:00
A new study has pieced together the first detailed, wide-area map of water distribution on the Moon.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-04-29 13:00
Landsat data and machine learning is providing a better understanding of our planet's past, present, and future.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-04-28 13:00
Ingenuity, also called Ginny, is a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-03-23 13:00
Plasma is the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the universe. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-03-22 13:00
Tropical Cyclone Freddy lasted more than five weeks.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-03-21 13:00
NASA is presently preparing its scientific return to Venus’ atmosphere and surface with a mission known as the “Deep Atmosphere of Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry… Read More
2023-03-20 13:00
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, with the company's uncrewed Dragon spacecraft on top, lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-02-28 13:00
Concerning the lunar month of approximately 29.53 days as viewed from Earth, the lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-02-23 13:00
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star, which had a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses, possibly more if the star was especially metal-rich.Post from: Or… Read More
2023-02-22 13:00
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that cover… Read More
2023-02-21 13:00
Landsat 8 is an American Earth observation satellite launched on 11 February 2013.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-02-15 13:00
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-02-14 13:00
A rotating detonation engine (RDE) is an engine using a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-02-13 13:00
A launch escape system (LES) or launch abort system (LAS) is a crew-safety system connected to a space capsule that can be used to quickly separate the capsule from its launch vehicle in cas… Read More
2023-01-25 13:00
This video chronicles solar activity from August 12 to December 22, 2022, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2023-01-24 13:00
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is a satellite altimeter jointly developed and operated by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, in partnership with the Canadian Spac… Read More
2023-01-23 13:00
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope which conducts infrared astronomy.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-11-28 13:00
Launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took place from Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A at 2:20 p.m. EST on Saturday, November 26, 2022.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-10-14 13:00
A new NASA and Durham University simulation puts forth a different theory of the Moon’s origin.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-10-13 13:00
The DART mission deployed a kinetic impactor to smack the small moon Dimorphos of the asteroid Didymos. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-10-12 13:00
NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator is currently at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where teams are preparing the novel technology for launch. Po… Read More
2022-10-11 13:00
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-09-29 13:00
NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) is demonstrating a cross-cutting aeroshell for atmospheric re-entry. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-09-27 13:00
NASA’s InSight lander detected seismic waves from a meteoroid and was able to capture the sound of the space rock striking the surface of Mars for the first time.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-09-26 13:00
The NGC 1569 galaxy creates stars at a rate 100 times faster than in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-09-23 13:00
Chemical propulsion has been the standard for spaceflight for decades, but if humans are to travel to Mars, they need a propulsion technology much more powerful.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-09-22 13:00
Through the Artemis program, NASA is establishing a long-term human presence on the Moon, opening more of the lunar surface to science and exploration than ever before.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-07-28 13:00
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-07-27 13:00
The Lunar Safe Haven was proposed to protect astronauts, electronics, and other surface exploration systems from the hazards of the lunar environment.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-07-26 13:00
SpaceX CRS-25, also known as SpX-25, is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that was launched on 15 July 2022.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-07-16 13:00
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is a rubble pile of rocks and boulders left over from the formation of the solar system.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-07-15 13:00
This year, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) celebrates its 13th anniversary orbiting the Moon. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-07-01 13:00
A white dwarf, is siphoning off debris from both the system’s inner and outer reaches.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-06-30 13:00
Our Milky Way galaxy is haunted. The vast gulf of space between the stars is plied by the dead, burned-out and crushed remnants of once glorious stars.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-06-29 13:00
The private-public partnership with NASA and Redwire will demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft – OSAM-2 (On-Orbit Servicing, Manufacturing and Assembly) – to manufacture… Read More
2022-06-28 13:00
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, will be the first spacecraft to fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended for NASA… Read More
2022-05-29 13:00
A microwave oven–sized CubeSat weighing just 55 pounds will serve as the first spacecraft to test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit as part of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System… Read More
2022-05-28 13:00
The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 1300’s arms hold blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds of star formation, and dark lanes of dust.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-05-27 13:00
Boeing's uncrewed CST-100 Starliner lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 19, 2022, for its Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station as part… Read More
2022-04-30 13:00
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-04-29 14:04
Astronauts Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Kjell Lindgren of NASA, alongside Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency), will spend nearly six months conducting new scientific res… Read More
2022-04-28 13:00
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27, 2022. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-03-17 13:00
The inflatable antenna technology concept was originally called the Large Balloon Reflector (LBR) concept when it was picked up by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program in 201… Read More
2022-03-16 13:00
NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) satellite spacecraft lifts off from Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-03-15 13:00
NASA's Psyche mission is preparing for a 1.5 billion-mile solar-powered trip to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-03-14 13:00
The SLS flight software and avionics systems act as the brains behind that muscle to guide and steer the rocket beyond Earth's orbit. Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-02-24 13:00
Starship is a fully-reusable and super heavy-lift launch vehicle in development by SpaceX.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2022-02-23 13:00
The Cygnus spacecraft is an expendable American cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and now manufactured and launched by Northrop Grumman Space Systems as part of NASA… Read More
2022-02-22 13:00
The Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-12-30 13:00
Seasons change even on Mars and NASA's fleet of explorers are helping scientists learn more about the effects on the Red Planet.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-12-29 13:00
Guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séí&hell…Read More
2021-12-24 13:00
NASA's SpaceX 24th commercial resupply services mission liftoff.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-11-26 13:00
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer is a space observatory with three identical telescopes designed to measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-11-25 13:00
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-11-11 13:00
Starbase is a private rocket production facility, test site, and spaceport constructed by SpaceX.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-11-09 13:00
About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-10-25 13:00
Lucy was launched from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 16 October 2021, at 09:34:00.192 UTC on the 401 variant of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
2021-10-13 13:00
On October 16, 2021, our Lucy spacecraft will begin its journey to visit a record-breaking number of asteroids.Post from: OrbitalHub Read More
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