Like most years, 2017 saw numerous scientific advancements and discoveries throughout the solar system and beyond, most of which passed public attention with little fanfare for these discoveries that are helping to shape and build not only our knowledge of our solar system but also how to navigate the space around Earth in the safest way possible for our astronauts and spacecraft.
Blue Origin returned to its impressive New Shepard test flight program with a new phase…
China is continuing to pick up its launch cadence via the launch of a new…
NASA’s “Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight)” mission has received another…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched – at the third attempt – the penultimate Delta II…
NASA has completed an important three day Technical Interchange Meeting regarding the agency’s upcoming flagship…
Orbital ATK’s Taurus-XL rocket – now renamed Minotaur-C – returned to flight on Tuesday with…
The unprecedented destruction and humanitarian crises spawned by Hurricanes Maria and Irma revealed the significant…
United Launch Alliance’s clandestine Atlas V launch in support of the US National Reconnaissance Office…
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite launched Friday aboard what could be the…
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched an H-IIA (H-2A) rocket Tuesday (local time) carrying the country’s…
October 4, 1957: a little 83.6 kg (184 lb) object entered the microgravity environment of…
Arianespace conducted the fifth Ariane 5 launch of the year with the lofting of the…
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have attached the Parker…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V rocket on Saturday evening, carrying out the…
More than two years after New Horizons flew past Pluto, becoming the first human-made object…
Goodbye, Cassini. And thank you. After a 20-year mission, 13 in orbit of Saturn, Cassini…
International Launch Services (ILS) launched its Proton-M launch vehicle with the Amazonas 5 satellite on…
Exactly 38 years to the day after Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to encounter…
ISRO launched a PSLV Thursday carrying a replacement satellite for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite…