SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft completed an Atlantic Ocean splashdown this morning, Friday March 8, at 8:45am EST, about 200 miles (~320 kilometers) east of Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft’s hatch was closed yesterday at 12:25pm EST, March 7, and undocked from the station at 2:32am EST this morning. Following a 15 minute deorbit burn at 7:54am EST, and a successful parachute deployment, Crew Dragon was recovered by SpaceX’s Go Searcher recovery ship and is making its way back to Port Canaveral.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) March 2, 2019 07:49 UTC (2:49 AM EST) Mission Name and what it is SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1 (DM-1) Uncrewed first flight of the crew version of Dragon 2 Launch Provider (What rocket company […]
Have you ever heard of the cow in the northern sky? Well, last year on august 17th the W. M. Keck telescope in Hawaii detected a bright object burst in the northern sky and astronomers named it AT2018cow or just […]
Today we’re going to take a deep dive on the two new spaceships that will be responsible for taking humans to and from the International Space Station from the United States. We’ll compare the Boeing Starliner riding an Atlas V rocket to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon on their Falcon 9 Rocket. And to see how we’ve progressed in the world of human spaceflight, we’ll also compare all these systems along side Russia’s Soyuz capsule and the United State’s retired Space Shuttle in a side by side comparison. We’ll look at the designs, the rockets they’ll ride, dimensions, cost, safety considerations, and any other unique features that each vehicle offers. Considering I’ve been up close and personal with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Capsule, and Boeing’s Starliner, I’ve got some good insight on some of these vehicles, so let’s get started!
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) February 22, 2019 01:45 UTC (February 21, 2019 8:45 PM EST) Mission Name and what it is Nusantara Satu (PSN VI) – Telecommunications satellite Spaceflight GTO-1 (Beresheet – Lunar lander + S5 – […]
Launch Window & Actual Lift Off Time February 6th, 2018 18:30 – 21:00 UTC (1:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST) 20:45 UTC (3:45 PM EST) Mission Name and What Was It Falcon Heavy Demo. Test flight of SpaceX’s heavy lift […]
Light has been traveling for 13 billion years across the universe to reach telescopes today, and some of that light has come from black holes!! Yes – light – from a black hole, that is the event horizon, technically. Which […]
SpaceX’s upcoming rocket called Starship Super Heavy formerly known as BFR, will no longer be made out of lightweight Carbon Composites, it’ll sweat a lot, and just MIGHT need a TON of WD-40.
All of my Star Trek fans listen up!! Do you all remember when Gene Roddenberry wrote a letter to sky & telescope magazine in 1991 about a prediction he made that there’s an intelligent civilization residing on a planet orbiting […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) January 11, 2019 15:31 UTC (7:31 AM PST) Mission Name and what it is Iridium 8. Launch of 10 Iridium Next satellites Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) SpaceX Customer (who’s […]
Found 20.5 lightyears from Earth in the constellation of Libra, is a planetary system, Gliese 581. And in this system contains an Earth-like planet Gliese 581 d, or unofficially known as Zarmina. Gliese 581 contains a red dwarf star at the […]
It is New Year’s Eve, and what better way to celebrate than a monumental moment of the New Horizons spacecraft flying past the most distant object in our solar system to ever be explored, aka Ultima Thule. This is the […]
Astronomers discovered a protostar that formed in the accretion disk of another protostar!!! Now let me explain all those indigestible terms – a protostar is simply a the stage just before a newborn star fully develops into a star, just […]
Lift Off Time January 23, 2019 14:50 UTC (8:50 AM CST) Mission Name and what it is NS10 – The tenth launch of the New Shepherd rocket Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Blue Origin Customer (who’s […]
A new finding shows 20 sharp images of proto-planetary disks that has never been seen like this before. Proto-planetary disks are the early stages of planetary systems forming, there are endless possibilities for life planets to form and if they are located in at a good distance from their star, then the chance for habitable life to form is likely. And now we have 20 high-resolution images that reveal gaps and rings in the disks around a very young newborn star.
Blue Origin, perhaps the sleeping giant of the aerospace industry, will be going from a tiny suborbital rocket, to one of the biggest rockets ever made…
Today, we’re finally going to do a quick rundown on Blue Origin, talk about their upcoming New Glenn rocket and then compare it to some of the other Heavy Lift Launchers it will be competing against.
Lift Off Time December 16, 2018 06:16 – 08:00 UTC (19:16 – 21:00 NZDT) The launch window extends until December 21st. Mission Name and what it is ELaNa XIX (Education Launch of Nanosatellites) – A launch of 10 CubeSats for NASA […]
Lift Off Time December 7th, 2018 at 18:20 UTC Mission Name and what it is Chang’e 4, lunar lnder and lunar rover Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) Customer (who’s paying […]
Lift Off Time December 7th, 2018 at 04:10 UTC Mission Name and what it is SaudiSat 5A & SaudiSat 5B, Earth observation satellites Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) Customer (who’s paying […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) December 23, 2018 13:51 UTC (8:51 AM EST) Mission Name and what it is GPS III SV01. The first Third Generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching […]
United Launch Alliance will be launching the NROL-71 satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office on a Delta IV Heavy from Space Launch Complex 6 at the Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) December 5th, 2018 18:16 UTC (1:16 PM EST) Mission Name and what it is CRS 16 – Dragon cargo resupply to the ISS Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) SpaceX Customer (who’s […]
OKAY–first off InSight is a LANDER. Meaning when it lands on Mars it stays put and will not move around like the rovers do (i.e. Curiosity and Opportunity). The InSight mission is focused on analyzing the interior of Mars, it’s name InSight is actually an acronym for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, meaning it’ll be measuring Mars quakes. InSight will have a 5 meter probe that will go into the surface of Mars to take multiple measurements of its interior. InSight will be the first mission to peer deep into Mars interior.
I put together a list of some of my favorite space things, AND to make it the super easiest thing for you, I’ve hyperlinked the photos in this article to take you straight to each thing.
A very recent occurrence happened in the magnetosphere around Earth – more specifically the magnetotail! The magnetotail is the region of the Earth’s magnetosphere that is facing AWAY from the Sun (the TAIL-END, hence the name magnetoTAIL). This region is filled with all the magnetic field lines from the Earth’s highly ionized particles, whereas the other side (facing the Sun) is a combination of ionized particles from both the Earth and the Sun. And this is where the EXPLOSION happened, or more scientifically- a magnetic reconnection. A magnetic reconnection is when particles in highly ionized gas, aka PLASMA, collide and result in a massive, short but highly impactful explosion of electrons spewing out at supersonic speeds. It happens in plasma environments in space and also in fusion labs! Reconnection is responsible for explosive solar events, like solar flares, coronal mass ejections causing disturbances in Earth’s space environment.
Lift Off Time November 21st, 2018 at 01:42 UTC Mission Name and what it is Mohammed VI-B, an Earth Observation Satellite Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Arianespace Customer (who’s paying for this?) Morocco Rocket Vega designated VV13 […]
Lift Off Time November 19th between 23:33-23:56 UTC Mission Name and what it is Jiading-1 (OKW-1), Tianzhi-1 & others Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) Customer (who’s paying for this?) Chinese […]
Lift Off Time November 18th at 18:00 UTC Mission Name and what it is BeiDou-3 M17 & M18, two Navigation satellites for the Chinese Navigation Network (GPS) Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) China Aerospace Science and Technology […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) November 16th, 2018 at 18:14 UTC Mission Name and what it is Progress MS-10 (71P) – cargo freighter for the I.S.S. Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Roscosmos Customer (who’s paying for […]
The Buran might look an awful lot like the Space Shuttle, but despite it’s looks, it performed its work in a quite different manner. The Soviet Union strapped the Buran shuttle to the side of the third most powerful rocket ever, the twice flown Energia rocket. The Buran orbiter didn’t do any of the lifting, unlike the the Space Shuttle Orbiter which had three RS-25 main engines power it through ascent.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) November 15th, 2018 at 20:46 – 22:29 UTC (15:46 – 17:29 EST) Mission Name and what it is Es’Hail 2 – A communications satellite Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) SpaceX Customer […]
This is the first time SpaceX will be reflying a booster twice, making it the third time this rocket flies. Confused? Let’s try that again. This is the first time SpaceX will have flown a booster three times. All other boosters prior have only flown twice. This marks an important milestone as SpaceX takes another mighty step towards full, rapid reusability.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) November 17, 2018 09:01 UTC (4:01 AM EST) Mission Name and what it is NG-10 – The SS John Young, an enhanced Cygnus cargo freighter Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) November 14, 2018 11:38 UTC (17:08 IST) Mission Name and what it is GSAT 29 Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Customer (who’s paying for this?) Indian […]
A US based (but also half New Zealand based) rocket company, Rocket Lab, will be launching their beautiful Electron rocket from their gorgeous launch site, LC-1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. This is their first time launching paying customer’s payloads and they’re launching a handful of small sats.
Lift Off Time November 1st at TBD Mission Name and what it is BeiDou-3 G1Q, a Navigation satellites for the Chinese Navigation Network (GPS) Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) […]
Lift Off Time April 1st, 2019 – TBD Mission Name and what it is Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Earth observation satellite Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Customer (who’s paying for this?) NASA […]
Lift Off Time October 29th at 00:30 UTC Mission Name and what it is CFOSAT Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) Customer (who’s paying for this?) Chinese Space Agency CNSA […]
Lift Off Time October 27th at TBD Mission Name and what it is Weilai-1 (Future-1), Earth observation satellite Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) LandSpace Customer (who’s paying for this?) CCTV Rocket Zhuque-1 Launch Location Jiuquan Satellite […]
Lift Off Time October 24th at 22:00 UTC until October 25th at 03:00 UTC Mission Name and what it is Lotos-S1 No.3 an intelligence gathering spy satellite Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Strategic Rocket Forces of […]
Arianespace is launching ESA’s and JAXA’s joint BepiColombo mission to the planet Mercury. BepiColombo will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket on October 20th at 01:45 UTC at the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) October 17th, 2018 at 12:15 a.m. until 2:15 a.m. EDT (04:15 – 06:15 UTC) (There is a 2 hour launch window.) Mission Name and what it is AEHF-4. The fourth Advanced Extremely High […]
Rocket Lab may have just dropped a nuke on the small sat launch market by secretly opening up an enormous factory in Auckland, New Zealand.
SpaceX is being paid by CONAE, the Argentine space agency, to send the SAOCOM 1A satellite into a low Earth sun synchronous orbit. SpaceX will be launching the satellite on top of one of their Falcon 9 rockets.
Stopping at the Moon on the way to Mars SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard their BFR launch vehicle. An important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling […]
Lift Off Time September 19th at 14:05 UTC Mission Name and what it is BeiDou-3 M13 & M14, two Navigation satellites for the Chinese Navigation Network (GPS) Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) China Aerospace Science and […]
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be launching a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket carrying two Earth Imaging Satellites and will launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sunday September 16th, 2018.
155th and final flight of a Delta 2 rocket, 7th mission for United Launch Alliance in 2018, 130th mission overall for United Launch Alliance since forming in December of 2006. Lift Off Time (Subject to change) September 15, 2018 […]
Prelaunch Preview: H-IIB 304 Kounotori 7 (HTV-7) September 11th, 2018 In Prelaunch Preview Lift Off Time September 17th, 2018 at 20:59 UTC Mission Name and what it is Kounotori 7 (HTV-7) The 7th Japanese Cargo Mission to the ISS […]
Prelaunch Preview: Long March 3B/YZ-1 BeiDou-3 M11 & M12 August 24, 2018 In Prelaunch Preview Lift Off Time August 24th, 2018 at 23:52 UTC Mission Name and what it is BeiDou-3 M11 & M12, two Navigation satellites for the […]
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