The helicopter made a quick 25-second hop, providing the Ingenuity team with vital information to help them comprehend why its 53rd flight terminated abruptly. After an unforeseen stoppage during its last hop, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has now successfully completed its 54th trip on Mars, marking an important milestone. For the Perseverance Mars rover science…
Boeing on Wednesday revealed a $257 million charge in the second quarter for its Starliner astronaut spacecraft program, carrying the program’s to-date overwhelm costs to $1.5 billion as postpones proceed. The aerospace giant pinned the charge on its choice last month to endlessly postpone the first crewed Starliner send off. Starliner was scheduled to launch…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working on a natural language interface, similar to ChatGPT, that will allow astronauts to use voice commands to control their spacecraft. It won’t be restricted to simply progressed moves all things considered. An autonomous system that can manage payloads, transmit data, monitor health, and more is the…
Boeing and NASA announces on Thursday that the company is further delaying the first crewed launch after discovering additional issues with the Starliner spacecraft. The most recent date for the Starliner crew flight test, which was supposed to send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, was July 21. Boeing discovered two brand-new Starliner…
Six years and three dozen flights after the company’s initial attempt at an orbital launch, a second pair of NASA storm-tracking cubesats were launched late on May 25 using an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab. The Electron rocket took off from the organization’s Send off Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:46 p.m. Eastern. Two…
Exists life beyond Earth? It’s possible that a brand-new snake-like robot will find out. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) for a space mission to Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 83 moons with the whitest and most reflective surface in the solar system. It’s accepted that there is a…
The head of the US space agency said on Thursday that the names of the four astronauts who will fly around the Moon next year—three Americans and one Canadian—will be announced next month. The crew members of the mission known as Artemis 2 would be revealed on April 3, according to NASA administrator Bill Nelson.…
After OneWeb’s own launch plans were derailed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, SpaceX launched a large number of internet satellites for a megaconstellation competitor Thursday evening (Dec. 8). At 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT), a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 40 OneWeb satellites launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, soaring into orbit in…
After a major malfunction shortly after liftoff, an Astra rocket carrying two small hurricane-tracking satellites for NASA failed to reach orbit Sunday (June 12). After taking off from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:43 p.m. EDT, the Astra rocket, dubbed Launch Vehicle 0010 (LV0010), suffered a second-stage failure…
The Eta Aquarids, one of spring’s busiest meteor showers, will peak this weekend. Simply step outside and look to the southern night sky to see the “shooting stars.” The Eta Aquarids reached their peak on Friday morning (May 6), and they will continue to shine brightly in the coming days, with up to 30 meteors…