Former NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who was the first to photograph the Earth in color from space while serving on NASA's Apollo 8 mission, died June 7 in a plane crash.
Since the latest malfunction, NASA has decided to transition the Hubble Space Telescope to a single-gyroscope operating mode by mid-June, officials say.
The FAA on June 4 cleared SpaceX to proceed with the fourth Integrated Flight Test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system, with the launch targeted for June 6.
The launch of NASA’s second Prefire Earth science mission small satellite has been rescheduled due to an off-nominal liquid oxygen propellant detection.
A second attempt to launch two astronauts on a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was called off 3 min. 50 sec. before liftoff on June 1.
NASA received 48 responses to its April 16-May 17 solicitation for alternative ideas to bring samples collected by the Perseverance Mars rover back to Earth.
Prefire joins more than two dozen current NASA Earth Science missions focused on studies of the planet’s oceans, ice, vegetation, atmosphere and landforms.
Liftoff of the Rocket Lab Electron rocket with the initial spacecraft from New Zealand is planned for 3:15 a.m. EDT, following the weather delay from May 22.
The actions include improved tracking to facilitate just-in-time collision avoidance maneuvers and the more rapid deorbiting of large sats no longer functional.
