Virgin Galactic’s 1st commercial spaceflight launch live online
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NASA analog astronauts begin mock Red Planet mission today
The next time that Kelly Haston, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones and Anca Selariu will see blue sky, a year will have gone by on Earth. Not that the four “analog astronauts” are leaving the planet, but for the next 12 months they will live inside a mock Mars base located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where…
Virgin Galacti will launch its 1st commercial spaceflight on June 27
Virgin Galactic’s first-ever commercial spaceflight will launch this month, if all goes according to plan. The company, part of billionaire Richard Branson‘s Virgin Group, announced Thursday (June 15) that it has set a launch window of June 27 to June 30 for its debut operational flight, which it calls Galactic 01. “Galactic 01, a scientific research…
Solar power beam to Earth from Space for 1st time Ever
The Space Solar Power Demonstrator’s MAPLE experiment was able to wirelessly transfer collected solar power to receivers in space and direct energy to Earth. A space solar power prototype has demonstrated its ability to wirelessly beam power through space and direct a detectable amount of energy toward Earth for the first time. The experiment proves…
video shows ISS crossing the sun’s face during a spacewalk
The station passes over a sunspot big enough to swallow Earth. https://content.jwplatform.com/previews/8zE4Gefi Capturing footage of the International Space Station (ISS) hurtling through space at approximately 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h) is no mean feat, yet French astrophotographer Thierry Legault has pulled it off yet again.
Watch live views of Mars from a European probe at the Red Planet in a 1st-of-its-kind livestream today
‘This will be the closest you can get to a live view from the Red Planet.’ It begins at 12 pm ET (1600 GMT). The European Space Agency (ESA) will livestream imagery from its Mars Express orbiter in near-real time today (June 2), and you can watch it live. The event, held to celebrate the…