LINK Spacecraft Set for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Observatory

Image: Seagate Space Florida’s aerospace development agency, Space Florida, has approved a strategic investment in Seagate Space, a St. Petersburg startup developing offshore launch infrastructure, signaling growing interest in ocean-based spaceports as launch demand continues to increase. Announced June 2, Space Florida’s $270,000 investment supports Project Manta, a program intended to prototype and demonstrate key…

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, the telescope mastermind is born. Best known for his quest to build larger and larger telescopes, George Ellery Hale helped shape institutions of astronomical research through the 19th and 20th centuries. Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Born June 29, 1868, in Chicago, George Ellery…

Eine Sammlung von Artikeln über Planetenforschung und Raumfahrt auf Deutsch. Eine Sammlung von Artikeln über Planetenforschung und Raumfahrt auf Deutsch.

Image: NASA NASA’s next great observatory is no longer a distant concept sitting quietly in development labs. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now entering its final stretch toward launch, and across the space community, anticipation around the mission has grown dramatically in recent months. NASA is targeting an Aug. 30 launch for Roman…

Week of January 18 The Orion spacecraft, consisting of the crew module, crew module adapter, and service module, that will fly four astronauts to the Moon on the Artemis II mission in the spring of 2025 is considerably advanced over its Artemis I sibling. The differences of the Artemis I and Artemis II Orion spacecraft…

In early May 2026, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers helped to bring Heliophysics to girls of all ages in a fun-filled weekend of hands-on science activities and experiments. The event took place from May 1-3 at Camp Conowingo, a Girl Scouts of Central Maryland camping property on the Susquehanna River north of Baltimore, and brought…