A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the NEONSAT-1 Earth-observation satellite and NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) from New Zealand. Credit: Rocket Lab Young Sheldon’s Jim ...
Looking to entrepreneurs and innovators for new technology that will transform future space missions, these projects are ...
Project leader Ethan Schaler, a robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... project would send a solar sail to explore the outer solar system.
After years of anticipation, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule has flown its first crew into space on the 100th flight of an Atlas V launch vehicle. Capping off Starliner’s test campaign, the ...
They will collaborate on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, an ESA-led mission that will launch in 2028 ... explore the unknown in our solar system and beyond." NASA is also using key German ...
"The James Webb Space Telescope team is working a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system," NASA officials ... Ariane 5 rocket and deployed its solar array ...
The first of two satellites designed for the PREFIRE mission was launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron ... stating, “NASA’s innovative PREFIRE mission will fill a gap in our understanding of the Earth ...
PREFIRE will collect this data using two shoebox-sized cubesats. Rocket Lab launched the first of the satellites on May 25, ...
An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab 's New Zealand site today at 3:41 a.m. EDT (0741 GMT; 7:41 p.m. local New ...
The TROPICS, or Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, ...
The satellite was deployed into orbit 53 minutes after launch as planned, according to Rocket Lab. Related: NASA's twin spacecraft will go to the ends of the Earth to combat climate change Rocket ...