by rmil2k | Oct 21, 2023 | News
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to launch 21 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California early Saturday morning (Oct. 21).The Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday at 3:47 a.m. EDT (0747 GMT;...
by rmil2k | Oct 20, 2023 | News
Size: Neptune is slightly smaller than Uranus and has a diameter of 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers), so about 4 Earths would fit across its face.Distance from the Sun: Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun. It orbits at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles...
by rmil2k | Oct 20, 2023 | News
Jupiter’s ocean moons capture most of our attention because of their potential habitability. But Io, Jupiter’s bad-boy volcanic moon, is in a class of its own. There’s nothing else like it in the Solar System, and NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured new images of the...
by rmil2k | Oct 20, 2023 | News
ESA Member States met for the 317th session of the ESA Council on 18 and 19 October.Watch the replay of the information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun share the outcome of the meeting. They give an update to...
by rmil2k | Oct 20, 2023 | News
NASA kicked off the final certification series for its Artemis moon-rocket engines with a dramatic “hot fire” test this week.NASA will begin using repurposed RS-25 space shuttle engines to fly astronauts to the moon with its Artemis program. Then the new...
