Found: One European Mars Lander, No Longer Intact
Imagery from a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has located the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Schiaparelli lander. ESA lost contact with the lander two days ago mid-way through its descent to …
Imagery from a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has located the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Schiaparelli lander. ESA lost contact with the lander two days ago mid-way through its descent to …
European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jan Woerner painted a highly positive picture of ESA’s ExoMars 2016 mission this morning even though the agency still does not know the fate …
UPDATE, October 21, 2016: Docking was successful at 5:52 am ET this morning. ORIGINAL STORY, October 19, 2016: Three new crew members for the International Space Station (ISS) lifted off …
The European Space Agency (ESA) was hoping to announce its first successful landing on Mars today, but the fate of its Schiaparelli lander is unknown at this time. Meanwhile NASA’s …
UPDATED October 22, 2016 to reflect the fact that Trump no longer plans to visit Kennedy Space Center next week, as reported by Florida Today. In an op-ed published in …
UPDATE, October 23, 2016: Cygnus OA-5 was successfully berthed to the ISS this morning as planned. ORIGINAL STORY, October 18, 2016: Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket is back in service after …
NOAA announced today that the launch of the first of its new generation of weather satellites, GOES-R, will be delayed because of impacts from Hurricane Matthew. The scheduled November 4 …
UPDATE, October 16, 6:30 pm ET: Orbital ATK has postponed the launch for one day because of a bad ground support cable. The new launch date and time are Monday, …
UPDATE, October 18, 2016, 3:40 pm EDT: The two astronauts just successfully docked with Tiangong-2. ORIGINAL STORY, October 16, 2016, EDT: Two Chinese astronauts were successfully launched to China’s Tiangong-2 …
Just one day before launch, China finally officially announced the names of the two crew members and launch time for the first mission to its new Tiangong-2 space station. The …