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The test aimed to boost the unpiloted upper stage into space on a sub-orbital hop to a controlled re-entry and splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The giant rocket’s 33 Raptor engines, gulping 40,000 …

CNN

SpaceX also never intended to recover Starship after this flight test. The spacecraft was expected to make a hard landing. And the Starship spacecraft made it much further into flight than during two previous tests in 2023.

Space.com

The CADRE rovers will head for Reiner Gamma, a magnetic swirl that is one of the most mysterious places on the moon. Comments (0). two small four-wheeled robotic rovers drive in a sandy enclosure during a test. Two full-scale development model moon …

Space.com

Starship put on quite a show during its third test flight on March 14, 2024, leading to some incredible images. Comments (0). a large silver rocket flies through a blue sky above a column of flame. SpaceX’s Starship launches from the company’s Starbase …

CNN

Voyager 1’s flight data system collects information from the spacecraft’s science instruments and bundles it with engineering data that reflects the current health status of Voyager 1. Mission control on Earth receives that data in binary code, or a series …

Space.com

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified several of the icy building blocks of life in the gas and dust swirling around two infant stars, or “protostars.” The molecules spotted range from relatively simple molecules like …

Space.com

Everyone who sees a total solar eclipse from within the path of totality gets fixated on the sun’s majestic corona. It’s the only time it can be seen with the naked eye and photographed. But another layer, the chromosphere, is also revealed during …

Reuters

BOCA CHICA, Texas, March 14 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, completed nearly an entire test flight to space on its third try on Thursday but was destroyed during its return to Earth …

Space.com

The pairing will be visible as soon as the sun sets and will remain visible until shortly after midnight local time. Comments (0). a blue cluster of stars glimmer together, above a small crescent moon. a large. An illustration of the sky on March 14, …

Scientific American

NASA is reaching across more than 15 billion to rescue its malfunctioning Voyager 1 probe—but this hallowed interstellar mission can’t live forever. By Nadia Drake. Voyager spacecraft leaving Solar System. The spacecraft is in silhouette with the light …