36 results for "Electron rocket"

Rocket Lab is gearing up to launch its Electron rocket for the 50th time, marking a significant milestone in the company's history. This launch highlights Rocket Lab's growing presence in...

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched the second of NASA's PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) cubesats, marking a significant step in understanding Earth's polar climate dynamics....

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched its second Vulcan Centaur rocket on October 4, 2024, marking a major step toward certifying the rocket for future national security missions. Despite a…

Rocket Lab successfully launched its 53rd Electron mission on September 20, 2024, deploying five satellites for French IoT company Kinéis. This mission is part of a larger plan to establish…

Rocket Lab successfully launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for Capella Space on August 11, 2024, marking the company's 10th mission of the year and its 52nd orbital mission overall. The...

Rocket Lab successfully launched a NASA cubesat early on May 25, 2024, as part of the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE). This mission aims to study how...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), an experimental spacecraft designed to harness sunlight for propulsion, is facing technical challenges after a bent boom caused it to lose orientation and…

NASA is gearing up for the launch of two climate science cubesats as part of the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) mission. These cubesats aim to capture...

On a brisk morning in New Zealand, Rocket Lab's Electron rocket took flight, ushering in a new chapter for space exploration. This event was not just a routine satellite deployment;...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched on October 14, 2024, marking the start of a long-awaited mission to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons believed to harbor a vast subsurface…

NASA is preparing to launch the Europa Clipper mission on October 10, 2024, marking the start of a six-year journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The spacecraft, NASA’s largest planetary…

NASA has confirmed that its ambitious Europa Clipper mission is on schedule for an October 10, 2024 launch. This groundbreaking mission aims to explore Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons,...

Recent research has revealed that the high-altitude explosion of SpaceX's Starship rocket during its second test flight in November 2023 temporarily tore a hole in the ionosphere, the uppermost layer...

On September 3, 2024, China successfully launched a new group of classified Yaogan-43 remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, located in the mountainous Sichuan Province of southwest...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, a highly anticipated journey to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, has successfully cleared a crucial milestone, keeping it on track for its scheduled launch on October...

In a groundbreaking discovery, an international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a global electric field on Earth, known as the ambipolar electric field. Hypothesized over 60 years...

Firefly Aerospace is moving closer to its highly anticipated lunar mission as its Blue Ghost lunar lander begins pre-launch environmental tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This marks a...

NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), marking a significant advancement for gamma-ray astronomy. The mission is set for an August 2027 launch...

Amazon has announced a delay in the launch of its initial Project Kuiper broadband services to early 2025. This adjustment follows the company's revised plans to launch its first batch...

In a groundbreaking development, Japanese researchers have successfully created the world's first wooden satellite, aptly named LignoSat. This innovative satellite marks a significant leap in combining traditional materials with modern...

Posted on Oct 13, 2021 in Artificial Intelligence, Astrobiology, Big Bang, Black Holes, Climate Change, Evolution, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, Planet Earth, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to...

Posted on May 8, 2021 in Planet Earth, Science, Technology This week’s stories from Planet Earth range from the discovery of single-celled organisms the size of basketballs existing in the...

Posted on Apr 22, 2021 in Planet Earth, Science, Technology Check off another amazing few days on Planet Earth, with news stories ranging from the detection of the closest black...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Nov 23, 2020 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biology, Climate Change, Dark Matter, Environmental, Extraterrestrial Life, Physics, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by...

Posted on May 29, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

Posted on Dec 14, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal...

“Life on Earth does not proceed in isolation. In addition to being Earthlings, we’re citizens of a larger cosmos, and sometimes the cosmos intrudes on our lives,” says astronomer Brian...

Posted on Jun 12, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Cosmos, Science, Space “Have you seen your body in X-rays? It looks completely different,” says astrophysicist Rashid Sunyaev. “We will do the...

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Climate Change, Evolution, Science Scientists propose that a supernovae eight-million years ago created atmospheric ionization that triggered an enormous upsurge in cloud-to-ground lightning strikes,...

Posted on Mar 27, 2019 in Science “Any icy satellite or planetary interior is intimately connected to the object’s surface,” said Arianna Gleason-Holbrook, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and...

Posted on Mar 20, 2019 in NASA, News, Science “We first landed on Jezero Crater on Jan. 23rd,” said Heather Bottom, systems engineer for the Mars 2020 mission at the...

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Astronomy, NASA, Science, Solar System, Technology “Previous missions to the Red Planet have investigated its surface by studying its canyons, volcanoes, rocks and soil,”...

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 Parker Solar Probe will fly closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft and through the solar corona itself. “We will be exploring a region...

Posted on Aug 11, 2018 The first ever spacecraft to fly directly toward the Sun was poised to blast off today, on a mission to plunge into our star’s sizzling...

Posted on Mar 28, 2018 in NASA, Space, Technology “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible,” said sci-fi author...