The Advanced Scientific Concepts (ASC) 3D Flash LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) range cameras have been selected for the OSIRIS-REx planetary science mission that will return a sample of the carbonaceous asteroid 1999 RQ36. The mission – launching in 2016 – is aiming to return the asteroid sample to Earth in 2023.
On Saturday, Dec. 21st, SpaceX launched the Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E…
Blue Origin tested its second human-rated New Shepard capsule this week, which had been delayed…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its…
The joint European-Japanese EarthCARE satellite has begun its mission to improve our understanding of Earth’s…
As May transitions into June, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Earth’s…
The recent increase in launches to meet growing demands for communications and observation satellites is…
The NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is on the verge of flying its…
Two launches were conducted from China in the last 24 hours on what was a…
A Chang Zheng 4C has launched from Launch Complex 9 (LC-9) at the Taiyuan Satellite…
After completing months of tests and assembly, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is in…
A month after New Shepard’s first flight carrying people into space, a science flight without…
China has become only the second nation to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars on…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has been moved to its secondary launch window…
After a ten-month lull in flights following the previous test of Blue Origin’s suborbital New…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a design, manufacturing, and testing contract with OHB…
Four and a half months after its launch on a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur…
A Russian Proton-M rocket launched on Wednesday morning at 06:17 EDT (10:17 UTC) from the…
The Japanese asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 – launched on December 3, 2014 aboard an H-IIA…
NASA’s vision of returning to the moon is getting clearer. With small, robotic missions en…
