• Ireland's lost Apollo 11 moon rock traced from basement to fire in documents

    Updated: 2024-12-31 17:58:33
    New details about the small pieces of the moon gifted by the United States to Ireland in 1970 have now been unearthed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples.

  • NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed)

    Updated: 2024-12-31 17:00:00
    Issues with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield on Artemis 1 have delayed the next mission, Artemis 2. So what happened?

  • Auroras, solar eclipse, Starship – 3 space stories make Google's Breakout Searches of 2024 (video)

    Updated: 2024-12-31 16:40:22
    Google's "Year in Search 2024" compilation is out, and three space stories this year made the list.

  • Space: NASA's Spacecraft Flies A Record-Breaking Distance Near The Sun

    Updated: 2024-12-31 16:09:32
    WhatsApp Facebook YouTube Temperatures on the sun’s surface reach up to 6,000°C, and the inner

  • 'Star Bound' serves up a 'snarky approach to space history' and the American space program (exclusive)

    Updated: 2024-12-31 16:00:00
    An interview with celebrated author Bruce McCandless III for his new NASA book, "Star Bound"

  • Will 2025 be the year of Starship? SpaceX's megarocket is growing up.

    Updated: 2024-12-31 11:00:40
    SpaceX could make serious strides with its Starship vehicle in 2025, perhaps launching 25 test flights of the fully reusable megarocket.

  • Study to examine environmental impacts of increased SpaceX launches from Vandenberg

    Updated: 2024-12-31 04:08:53
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  • India launches space docking experiment with PSLV rocket, advancing major ambitions

    Updated: 2024-12-30 17:02:55
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  • Get ready for the 'New Year Comet': What to expect from Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3

    Updated: 2024-12-30 17:01:00
    Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3 could be set to wow sky-watchers at the beginning of 2025.

  • 2025 will be a year of slow but steady progress for climate monitoring satellites

    Updated: 2024-12-30 16:00:00
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  • Aurora alert: Powerful geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as Illinois tonight and tomorrow

    Updated: 2024-12-30 15:50:09
    Aurora chasers are on high alert for powerful geomagnetic storm conditions on Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 with northern lights possible deep into mid-latitudes.

  • 'Mathematically perfect' star system discovered 105 light-years from Earth may still be in its infancy. Could that change its prospects for life?

    Updated: 2024-12-30 15:00:00
    Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 billion years old, new research suggests.

  • New flexible 'metamaterial' inspired by nature could help us build shapeshifting space habitats and telescopes

    Updated: 2024-12-30 14:00:00
    Researchers have designed a flexible material that could pave the way for the development of adaptable space structures.

  • NASA’s Artemis program needs a new public relations angle

    Updated: 2024-12-30 14:00:00
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  • Satellite manufacturer for Chinese megaconstellation secures $137 million funding

    Updated: 2024-12-30 13:03:42
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  • The top 7 black hole discoveries from 2024

    Updated: 2024-12-30 11:00:00
    2024 was a big year for black hole science, and Space.com was on duty all year to bring you every major development in our understanding of the universe's most fascinating entities.

  • China’s space agency faces leadership change amid shake-up

    Updated: 2024-12-30 09:53:22
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  • Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100, but his voice continues 'into the cosmos'

    Updated: 2024-12-30 01:03:07
    The longest-lived president in United States’ history, Jimmy Carter’s voice will continue to extend “into the cosmos” beyond his death at 100.

  • SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites during final orbital launch of 2024

    Updated: 2024-12-29 21:10:05
    The mission was the 134th and final orbital launch from SpaceX in 2024. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center happened at 12:39 a.m. EST (0539 UTC) on Tuesday, Dec. 31.

  • India launches 2 SpaDeX satellites on ambitious space docking test for future moon mission, space station

    Updated: 2024-12-29 17:36:55
    The SpaDeX mission will attempt India's first-ever autonomous docking in space.

  • SpaceX's last launch of 2024 puts Starlink satellites into orbit (video)

    Updated: 2024-12-29 17:00:20
    SpaceX launched its last mission of 2024 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on New Year's Eve.

  • Sun unleashes massive X1.1 solar flare to close out 2024 (photo)

    Updated: 2024-12-29 16:25:12
    The huge solar flare may be the last big explosion from the sun this year.

  • Watch Greenland lose 563 cubic miles of ice in under 30 seconds in disturbing new time-lapse video

    Updated: 2024-12-29 16:00:00
    Satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal 13 years of melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

  • Four-satellite Astranis launch signals shift toward scaled GEO deployments

    Updated: 2024-12-29 14:56:27
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  • 15 must-see naked-eye skywatching events in 2025

    Updated: 2024-12-29 11:00:00
    The 2025 skywatching guide includes a rare sunrise solar eclipse, an occultation of Mars and three supermoons. Here are the dates you need to know.

  • 3... 2... 1... SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on third-to-last mission of 2024

    Updated: 2024-12-29 02:12:08
    SpaceX has begun counting down to the New Year, with the launch of the first of three rockets planned to close out 2024.

  • SpaceX launches 4 Astranis satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

    Updated: 2024-12-29 01:07:41
    SpaceX had to swap out the first stage booster used during the previous attempt and replace it with another for this mission. Liftoff from pad 40 happened at 12 a.m. EST (0500 UTC) on Sunday, Dec. 29.

  • SpaceX launches final 2024 mission from Vandenberg

    Updated: 2024-12-28 19:34:16
    The mission will the final Falcon 9 flight from California before the end of the year. Liftoff from pad 4 East happened at 5:58:30 p.m. PST (8:58:30 p.m. EST, 0158:30 UTC).

  • Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

    Updated: 2024-12-28 18:11:46
    Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

  • SpaceX launches 4 Astranis satellites on 2nd try after last-second abort

    Updated: 2024-12-28 17:37:36
    SpaceX successfully launched a miniature fleet of communications satellites into orbit in a vindication of sorts after a last-second abort delayed the flight.

  • Blue Origin hot fires New Glenn rocket for first time and scores FAA license for test launch

    Updated: 2024-12-28 15:56:27
    Blue Origin fired up its new heavy-lift orbital rocket for the first time just hours after receiving federal clearance to conduct its maiden launch.

  • Year of Venus: How to see the 'evening star' at its best in 2025

    Updated: 2024-12-28 14:00:00
    Venus is moving toward a dramatic finale in early 2025, when it will dazzle as the "evening star" after sunset. Here's when to catch it at its brilliant best.

  • Don't miss these 15 spectacular moon events in 2025

    Updated: 2024-12-28 13:00:00
    Here are the best lunar events to see in 2025, including the Major Lunar Standstill, eclipses, occultations and conjunctions involving the moon.

  • Starship, Europa Clipper and more: The top 10 spaceflight stories of 2024

    Updated: 2024-12-28 11:00:00
    From SpaceX plucking its huge Super Heavy rocket out of the sky to the launch of NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper mission, this year held many amazing advances.

  • Blue Origin test fires New Glenn first stage ahead of inaugural launch

    Updated: 2024-12-28 07:10:13
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  • FAA grants commercial launch license to Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket

    Updated: 2024-12-27 20:52:53
    The important test is one of final big hurdles for Blue Origin to clear before it’s ready to launch on its inaugural orbital flight. Blue Origin didn't announce a launch date following the FAA's announcement of its launch license approval.

  • Slam Corp extends Lynk Global merger deadline as cash reserves dwindle

    Updated: 2024-12-27 19:14:31
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  • Noisy booster landings can impede spaceflight progress. Congress was right to step in

    Updated: 2024-12-27 16:51:24
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  • Christmas solar flares erupt from the sun. Will they trigger aurora 'fireworks' as we close out 2024?

    Updated: 2024-12-27 16:29:23
    Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

  • NASA, Astronomical League team up for 2025 Hubble night sky challenge

    Updated: 2024-12-27 15:00:00
    The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary and skywatchers can celebrate the mighty telescope with a year-long observation challenge.

  • NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!

    Updated: 2024-12-27 14:53:49
    A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

  • Spacecoin deploys first satellite for decentralized space connectivity 

    Updated: 2024-12-27 13:23:45
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  • The sun in 2025: How the solar cycle will shape our year ahead

    Updated: 2024-12-27 11:00:00
    We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle.

  • China suffers commercial rocket failure but sets record for annual launches

    Updated: 2024-12-27 10:41:04
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  • Iceye raises additional $65 million

    Updated: 2024-12-27 06:49:36
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  • China’s Landspace secures state-backed funding for reusable rockets

    Updated: 2024-12-26 22:36:34
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  • 'Silo' scores a third and fourth season from Apple TV+

    Updated: 2024-12-26 18:00:10
    Apple TV+'s successful sci-fi series "Silo" will return for a third and fourth season

  • Scientists await signal from NASA's Parker Solar Probe after historic close sun flyby. Will it phone home?

    Updated: 2024-12-26 17:20:41
    The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it's been silent since Dec. 20.

  • True Anomaly achieves milestone with Jackal satellite deployment

    Updated: 2024-12-26 17:00:47
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  • NASA selects four companies for commercial communications services

    Updated: 2024-12-26 06:47:17
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  • Senate NASA bill focuses on commercial space stations, science mission overruns

    Updated: 2024-12-24 20:11:56
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  • EAST SPACE Company Develops and Brings to Market Three New Products

    Updated: 2024-12-24 16:39:31
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  • In-orbit servicers get UK funds to help shape new regulations 

    Updated: 2024-12-23 08:00:00
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  • PIA26070: Using JPL's DUSTIE Planetary Simulation Chamber to Mimic Vesta

    Updated: 2024-12-23 01:22:54
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  • NASA delays launch of heliophysics missions

    Updated: 2024-12-22 19:59:35
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  • SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center

    Updated: 2024-12-22 19:49:43
    SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in the midnight hour on Monday to add another 21 satellites to its orbiting Starlink fleet. Liftoff of the Starlink 12-2 mission from pad 39A was at 12:35 a.m. EST (0535 UTC).

  • Liechtenstein signs the Artemis Accords

    Updated: 2024-12-22 18:14:25
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  • Parker Solar Probe to make closest approach yet to the sun

    Updated: 2024-12-22 15:37:13
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  • The Space Rapid Capabilities Office: unlocking the power of collaboration for national defense

    Updated: 2024-12-22 14:00:00
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  • SpaceX launches second mid-inclination rideshare mission

    Updated: 2024-12-21 20:59:25
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  • SpaceX launches Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission on Falcon 9 rocket from California

    Updated: 2024-12-21 05:53:59
    This is the second batch of customer satellites that SpaceX will launch to a mid-inclination orbit. Liftoff from pad 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 3:34 a.m. PST (6:34 a.m. EST, 1134 UTC).

  • Mid-ignition issue forces a scrub of Falcon 9 launch with Astranis’ MicroGEO satellites

    Updated: 2024-12-20 19:45:19
    The mission, dubbed ‘Astranis: From One to Many,’ includes the company’s new UtilitySat, which is designed to relocate within geostationary Earth orbit over its life to respond to different mission objectives.

  • Space Force says first national security Vulcan launch now anticipated in spring 2025

    Updated: 2024-12-18 21:07:23
    The first mission for United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket as part of the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract will be USSF-106. ULA began stacking the rocket that will support this mission in October 2024.

  • SpaceX launches first two SES O3b mPOWER satellites with upgrades to address power issues seen on earlier spacecraft

    Updated: 2024-12-17 19:34:34
    This is will be the fourth pair of O3b mPOWER satellites launched to a medium Earth orbit. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A is set for 5:26 p.m. EST (2226 UTC).

  • A College Movie Theater & Finding An Alien Reproduction Vehicle (ARV)?

    Updated: 2024-12-08 23:06:10
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  • 7 Dec : Galileo changed the way we look at our solar system

    Updated: 2024-12-06 18:37:00
    World outside the world is super exciting. This is proved every time NASA has a mission. This time i

  • PhD Seminar Series: “Hybrid Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: The curious incident of the cat and spaghetti in the Space-Time"

    Updated: 2024-11-24 18:36:17
    We continue our seminar series on Tuesday, Dec. 3rd at 13.00 On site: Salón de Grados (Leganés

  • PIA26424: Model of NASA's SWIM Robot on Glacial Ice in Alaska

    Updated: 2024-11-21 00:42:54
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  • The Crane, Barbados

    Updated: 2024-11-20 11:29:50
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 We have been owners with Hilton Grand Vacations Club for quite a few year

  • Star Wars Tie Fighter [1978] (1st Attempt)

    Updated: 2024-11-20 03:57:52
    This is a (not so very accurate) first attempt at recreating the Tie Fighter from the Star Wars toy

  • India’s Low-Cost Space Missions: Efficiency and Ingenuity at Play

    Updated: 2024-11-11 15:00:00
    India’s space program has been making headlines worldwide, not just for its impressive achievements

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  • ISRO Gears Up for Chandrayaan-4 and Human Lunar Exploration

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:37:21
    India’s space programme is reaching new heights, with ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) now

  • Spaceship Pen Sketches

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:37:21
    India’s space programme is reaching new heights, with ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) now

  • Starliner Returns Home Safely Without its Astronauts

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:37:20
    Starliner returns home safely but without its astronauts. The Boeing capsule with enough malfunction

  • Review: Star Eagles

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:37:20
    Having loved Starmada, I eagerly embraced Star Eagles as a fighter equivalent. I wanted a small unit

  • Interstellar Comet Borisov Looks Weirdly Familiar

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:37:18
    The gas cyanogen has been detected in 2I/Borisov’s coma—a historic detection of a gas commonly found in regular comets. It’s official, the solar system is playing host to its second confirmed interstellar visitor only two years after the strangely-shaped `Oumuamua was spotted receding into interstellar expanse. While `Oumuamua was historic in that it was the … Continue reading "Interstellar Comet Borisov Looks Weirdly Familiar"

  • SCIENCED Podcast: No Tea on Teegarden b

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:37:18
    Before zipping off to Hawaii and taking a short writing break, I was invited to appear on the SoCal Science Writing “SCIENCED” podcast with Jessie Hendricks to talk about one of our favorite habitable exoplanets, Teegarden b. So, naturally, we trashed its potential habitability with some science and humor. We also delved into some science … Continue reading "SCIENCED Podcast: No Tea on Teegarden b"

  • PIA26347: NASA's COLDArm Operating on the Moon (Animation)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:58
    PIA26347 : NASA's COLDArm Operating on the Moon Animation Target Name : thinsp Moon Instrument : thinsp Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm COLDArm Product Size : thinsp 3840 x 2160 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp NASA Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26347.tif 8.895 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26347.jpg 369.9 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Click here for video with title mp4, 25.7 MB Click here for video with no title mp4, 43.6 MB Figure A In this animation , NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm COLDArm robotic arm system reaches out from a lander on the Moon and scoops up regolith broken rock and dust Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern

  • PIA26453: NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Orbit Around the Moon (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:58
     nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Mission:  Lunar Trailblazer Image Credit: Lockheed Martin Space

  • PIA26419: NISAR Radar Antenna Reflector Loaded for Return to India

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:57
     nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Mission:  NISAR Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

  • PIA26444: Europa Clipper Explores an Icy Ocean World (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:56
    PIA26444 : Europa Clipper Explores an Icy Ocean World Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 1000 x 1000 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26444.tif 2.276 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26444.jpg 90.42 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the gas giant's ice-covered moon Europa . Scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in April 2030, the mission will be the first to specifically target Europa for detailed science . investigation Europa Clipper's three main

  • PIA26443: Europa Clipper Zooms Over Its Target of Study (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:56
    PIA26443 : Europa Clipper Zooms Over Its Target of Study Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 3840 x 2160 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26443.tif 22.53 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26443.jpg 807.4 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft performing a close flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa . Scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in April 2030, Europa Clipper will orbit the gas giant and be the first mission to specifically target Europa for detailed science investigation . Europa Clipper's

  • PIA26442: Europa Clipper Spies Jupiter and Europa (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:56
    PIA26442 : Europa Clipper Spies Jupiter and Europa Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 3840 x 2160 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26442.tif 24.89 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26442.jpg 796.9 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft silhouetted against Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon Europa bottom center Scheduled to orbit Jupiter beginning in April 2030, the mission will be the first to specifically target Europa for detailed science . investigation Europa Clipper's

  • PIA26390: NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Deploys Its Solar Arrays After Testing

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:55
     nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Mission:  Lunar Trailblazer Image Credit: Lockheed Martin Space

  • PIA26439: Europa Clipper: Equipped for Discovery (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:55
    PIA26439 : Europa Clipper : Equipped for Discovery Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 3841 x 4320 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26439.tif 5.712 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26439.jpg 617.2 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : To conduct its detailed investigations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa , NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft carries a suite of nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses its telecommunications system . These components are depicted in this pair of artist's concepts showing each side of the spacecraft , and

  • PIA26437: Europa Clipper Launch Ascent Timeline

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:54
    PIA26437 : Europa Clipper Launch Ascent Timeline Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 3841 x 2161 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26437.tif 2.266 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26437.jpg 368.4 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida . This graphic shows the expected timeline of milestones immediately following liftoff if the mission launches at the beginning of its launch period on Oct . 10, 2024. The actual times of milestones will

  • PIA26435: Europa Clipper's Trajectory to Jupiter

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:54
    PIA26435 : Europa Clipper's Trajectory to Jupiter Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 1921 x 1081 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26435.tif 405.6 kB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26435.jpg 89 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : On its journey to the Jupiter system , NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars , then Earth , using the gravity of each planet as a slingshot to boost the spacecraft's speed . All told , the journey will take about 5 2 years , covering a distance of about 1.8 billion miles 2.9 billion kilometers In this diagram , the

  • PIA26434: Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:53
    PIA26434 : Europa's Mysterious Interior Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 1921 x 1081 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26434.tif 1.076 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26434.jpg 92.32 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Jupiter's moon Europa is smaller than Earth's moon yet may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined . Scientists believe that under its icy surface , Europa features a global saltwater ocean , perhaps 40 to 100 miles 60 to 150 kilometers deep . Further inward , a rocky mantle and metallic

  • PIA26433: Europa Clipper: NASA's Largest Planetary Spacecraft (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:53
    PIA26433 : Europa Clipper : NASA's Largest Planetary Spacecraft Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 3840 x 2160 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26433.tif 2.324 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26433.jpg 268.2 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : With its solar arrays and antennas fully extended , the Europa Clipper spacecraft stretches out larger than a basketball court : approximately 100 feet 30.5 meters long and 58 feet 17.6 meters wide . Depicted in this artist's concept against an illustration of a basketball court , Europa Clipper is the

  • PIA26438: Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 04:36:52
    PIA26438 : Europa's Mysterious Interior Artist's Concept Target Name : thinsp Europa Mission : thinsp Europa Clipper Spacecraft : thinsp Europa Clipper Product Size : thinsp 2550 x 2700 pixels w x h Produced By : thinsp JPL Full-Res TIFF : thinsp PIA26438.tif 12.34 MB Full-Res JPEG : thinsp PIA26438.jpg 469.9 kB Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format possibly reduced in size from original Original Caption Released with Image : Scientists believe that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined . This artist's concept not to scale depicts what Europa's internal structure could look like : an outer shell of ice , perhaps with plumes of

  • 10 Nov : Good bye ‘Phoenix’

    Updated: 2024-11-09 18:36:00
    Nasa was exploring Mars since 1960 starting with some failure launches. Most recent and most valuabl

  • Intrepid Museum, New York City

    Updated: 2024-11-03 13:46:34
    Saturday, November 2, 2024 We arrived in New York City last night, in time to raise a toast to Lady

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