Launch Window Opens for ELaNa 20 Mission

2025-05-20, 08:30 NASA Newsy

Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl aircraft and LauncherOne rocket are positioned for takeoff from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, in preparation to launch 10 small NASA-sponsored research ...

Takeoff! ELaNa 20 Mission on Its Way...

2025-05-20, 08:20 NASA Newsy

Marking the first payload carried by the LauncherOne rocket, Virgin Orbit's 747-00 carrier, Cosmic Girl, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 1:38 p.m. ET today. The ...

Hitching a Ride on Landsat 9: ELaNa...

2025-05-20, 08:10 NASA Newsy

Two small research satellites that are launching as part of NASA's 34th Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission promise exciting insights for the university researchers that developed ...

Space Weather Focused ELaNa CubeSat...

2025-05-20, 08:00 NASA Newsy

The sole CubeSat of the 33rd Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission was deployed into space at 6:50 p.m. EDT June 29 from Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft hours following its ...

Friday is Full of Advancing Dragon...

2025-05-16, 21:20 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

The Expedition 73 crew aboard the International Space Station continued work with Dragon cargo, advanced space experiments, and maintenance of orbital systems.NASA astronauts Anne McClain and ...

NASA, International Astronauts...

2025-05-16, 20:50 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer prerecorded questions submitted by middle and high school students from New York and ...

Mars Express updates software,...

2025-05-16, 20:40 ESA

Mars Express mission operators at ESOC successfully sent a new software patch that would allow the spacecraft to operate in its third decade.A space mission is as durable as its most critical ...

NASA X-59s Latest Testing Milestone:...

2025-05-16, 13:20 NASA Newsy

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert ? all ...

Earth from Space: Svalbard Archipelago

2025-05-16, 11:20 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click ...

NASA Selects Student Teams for Drone...

2025-05-16, 08:00 NASA Newsy

NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic ...