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Posted on April 28, 2025

Watch Vega-C rocket launch European forest-monitoring satellite to orbit on April 29

The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.
Posted on April 28, 2025

‘I didn’t look too good because I didn’t feel too good’: NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)

Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he'd just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.
Posted on April 28, 2025

SpaceX launches 250th Starlink satellite mission, lands rocket at sea (photos)

SpaceX launched its 250th dedicated Starlink mission on Sunday night (April 27), sending 23 of the broadband satellites to low Earth orbit.
Posted on April 25, 2025

Senators press Jared Isaacman, Trump’s pick for NASA chief, on his ties to Elon Musk

Multiple Democratic senators have expressed concern about the business relationship between Jared Isaacman, President Trump's pick for NASA administrator, and SpaceX chief Elon Musk.
Posted on April 24, 2025

Mars orbiter snaps 1st image of Curiosity rover driving on the Red Planet (photo)

A NASA Mars orbiter recently spotted the Curiosity rover driving across the Red Planet's surface, capturing an unprecedented off-Earth action shot.
Posted on April 24, 2025

China’s Shenzhou 20 astronauts arrive at Tiangong space station

The three astronauts of China's Shenzhou 20 mission arrived at the nation's Tiangong space station today (April 24), about 6.5 hours after lifting off.
Posted on April 24, 2025

Could astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope again?

Astronauts repaired and upgraded NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the course of five servicing missions from 1993 to 2009. Could yet another astronaut visit be in the cards?
Posted on April 23, 2025

SpaceX launches 3 rockets from 3 pads in less than 37 hours (photos)

SpaceX continues to keep up its torrid launch pace, sending three missions to orbit from three different pads over the course of a day and a half.
Posted on April 22, 2025

Watch SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrive at the ISS today

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station this morning (April 22), and you can watch the orbital rendezvous live.
Posted on April 22, 2025

SpaceX launches European reentry capsule on ‘Bandwagon-3’ rideshare mission

SpaceX sent a pioneering private reentry capsule to space today (April 21) on a rideshare mission called Bandwagon-3.

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