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STARMUS 2025 starts tomorrow

The Starmus Earth to Space 2025 festival is set to be one of the most exciting science and culture events of the year, bringing together brilliant minds, space pioneers, and celebrated artists for a week-long celebration in Washington, D.C. From April 29 to May 3, 2025, the event will explore the relationship between Earth and the cosmos through music, talks, exhibition...

Tele Vue goes to space

The PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission marks a significant milestone in heliophysics, space engineering, and collaborative instrumentation. Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, PUNCH comprises four small satellites designed to provide an unprecedented look into the transition zone where the solar corona becomes the solar wind. By placin...

PUNCH to launch with Tele Vue optical lenses

On Sunday, March 2, 2025, the night sky over California’s south-central coast will be illuminated by the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Along with a small near-infrared observatory named SPHEREx, the NASA payload will include the PUNCH mission, which contains three Tele Vue Optical Lens Assemblies. Tele Vue was honored to be chosen f...

Unistellar Citizen Science program launches

Unistellar has announced its collaboration with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute to launch the Satellites Program, a groundbreaking citizen science initiative that empowers telescope users to track satellite positions and measure their brightness. By contributing real-time observations, participants will help researchers refine orbital model...

SPHEREx launch and telescope details

NASA's pursuit of understanding the cosmos is set to take a significant leap forward with the upcoming launch of a new sky-mapping space telescope, the SPHEREx space telescope, which is scheduled to launch on February 27, 2025. The launch will take place from Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This advanced piece of technology prom...

Trump and NASA

In a rapidly changing geopolitical and economic climate, the return of the Trump administration to power is poised to bring sweeping changes to NASA, the U.S. space program, and global space exploration. The next four years could define the future of space policy, priorities, and partnerships, particularly as U.S. space exploration inches closer to monumental goals such...

Artemis lunar lander mission highlighted

NASA's Artemis campaign, a bold initiative to return humans to the Moon, has marked significant progress with its collaboration with SpaceX. The Artemis III mission, which aims to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface for the first time in over half a century, is a pivotal component of this undertaking. NASA's partnership with U.S. industry, particularly Sp...

Radio astronomy research and high-speed internet find cadence

The National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ), which spans areas of Virginia and West Virginia, will now offer high-speed satellite internet service to the vast majority of its residents. This breakthrough is the result of a nearly three-year collaboration between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), SpaceX, and the NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO), whi...

The STS-66 mission three decades later

On November 3, 1994, the space shuttle Atlantis embarked on its 13th mission into the cosmos. This mission, designated STS-66, marked a significant chapter in the effort to understand Earth's atmospheric composition and dynamics. Over the course of 11 days, the crew of Commander Donald R. McMonagle, Pilot Curtis L. Brown, Payload Commander Ellen Ochoa, and Mission S...

SpaceX heads to ISS with 3 tons of cargo

SpaceX is poised to launch a significant resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) today, carrying approximately three tons of cargo. The launch is scheduled to take place at 9:29 p.m. ET on November 4, 2023, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission marks another crucial step in SpaceX's ongoing collaboration with NASA to support scient...

Inside view of a Dragon belly captured

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has captured a haunting image of SpaceX's Dragon capsule. The spacecraft, named Freedom, is currently undertaking SpaceX's Crew-9 mission for NASA. This striking photograph, taken from the vantage point of the orbiting laboratory, has garnered attention for its eerie and surreal depiction of the Dragon ca...

SpaceX successfully deploys 22 Starlink satellites for internet coverage from Florida

SpaceX marked another milestone in its Starlink project, successfully deploying 22 internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Saturday evening, October 26. The launch took place at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, adding to the growing constellation designed to provide global high-speed internet access. Starlink Expansion Continues with Latest Launch ...

Watch star erupting as spotted by Hubble

Roughly 700 light-years away, R Aquarii is one of the closest stars known to undergo violent eruptions, ejecting large amounts of processed nuclear material into space. This system, classified as symbiotic, is part of a group of 150 known variable stars. Symbiotic stars are composed of two vastly different types of stars: a cool red giant and a small white dwarf compani...

Moonlight Lunar Communications and Navigation Services program

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially launched the Moonlight initiative, a groundbreaking project aimed at establishing a robust lunar communications and navigation infrastructure. The Moonlight program is designed to support the growing number of lunar missions, both governmental and commercial, by offering a reliable satellite-based service for communications...

The SpaceX telescope and what we know so far

The SpaceX telescope is rumored to be in its early development stages, with the company leveraging its existing technology and resources to create a cutting-edge astronomical instrument. While SpaceX has not officially confirmed many details about the project, industry insiders speculate that the telescope could incorporate elements from the company's Starship techn...

Inflatable space habitats introduced by Max Space

Max Space, an entrepreneurial space company, recently introduced its unique expandable habitat architecture. Max Space has demonstrated that its proprietary expandable technology can be scaled upwards in size indefinitely while maintaining structural predictability. This attribute makes the company peerless in the space habitation market by opening the door to large-sca...

Deep Purple telescope is one step closer to launch

In January 2024, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) space hardware team completed the qualification of the Deep Purple payload. This payload is set to be aboard NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-R (PTD-R) satellite, scheduled for launch this summer. Once operational, Deep Purple will observe ultraviolet (UV) and short-wave infrared (SWIR...

Voyager 1 resumes sending science data from all four instruments

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is once again conducting normal science operations after addressing a technical issue from November 2023. The team partially resolved the problem in April by initiating the return of engineering data, including health and status updates of the spacecraft. On May 19, the mission team sent a command to start returning science data. Two of t...

Jammed door on XRISM telescope blocks low-energy X-ray observation

Astronomers were thrilled at the prospect of uncovering new insights into the universe's formation and dark matter through the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a collaborative project between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA. The telescope, launched successfully in September 2023, encountered an unexpected problem: one of the ...

Billionaire proposes SpaceX mission to upgrade Hubble telescope

Polaris Dawn commander and billionaire Jared Isaacman has expressed a strong desire to upgrade the Hubble Telescope through a privately funded SpaceX mission. However, the feasibility of such a mission remains uncertain. Billionaire proposes upgrading Hubble telescope via private SpaceX mission NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in service since 199...