SMILE lifts off to map Earth's magnetic shield in unprecedented detail
After more than a decade of joint development between ESA and China's CNSA, the SMILE spacecraft is now in orbit and ready to deliver the fi…
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Psyche Swings Past Mars, Sets Course for Metal World
Flying within 4,609 kilometers of Mars, NASA's Psyche spacecraft completed a gravity assist that boosted its speed toward asteroid 16 Psyche…
Psyche Turns Its Cameras on Mars During a Gravitational Slingshot
Before continuing its journey to a metallic asteroid, NASA's Psyche spacecraft swung past Mars and captured striking multispectral images — …
SMILE Launches to Map Earth's Magnetic Shield in Detail
On 19 May 2026, a Vega-C rocket carried ESA's SMILE spacecraft into orbit from French Guiana. The joint European-Chinese mission aims to ima…
Starship Flight 12: A System Rebuilding Itself from the Ground Up
Flight 12 of Starship is shaping up as a pivotal test, pairing a heavily revised Super Heavy Block 3 booster with a new Ship variant. For NA…
Smile satellite launches to map Earth's magnetic shield in unprecedented detail
Lifting off on a Vega-C rocket from Kourou on 19 May 2026, the Smile spacecraft begins a multi-year investigation into space weather, geomag…
Starship Flight 12: A New Pad, New Ship, Old Pressure
Flight 12 of Starship combines a brand-new launch complex, a heavily revised upper stage, and mounting pressure from NASA and commercial par…
Artemis III Recast as an Earth Orbit Mission Before Moon Return
NASA has outlined preliminary plans for a redesigned Artemis III mission, now focused on Earth orbit rendezvous and docking tests with comme…
Artemis III Recast as an Orbital Test Before Any Moon Landing
Targeting a 2027 launch, Artemis III will no longer attempt a lunar landing. NASA has restructured the mission as an Earth-orbit test of ren…
CRS-34 Dragon Delivers Science and Supplies to the ISS
On May 15, 2026, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying nearly 6,500 pounds of scientific hardware and crew supplies for Expedit…
SpaceX Juggles CRS-34 Cargo Run and Starship's Next Big Leap
SpaceX is operating on two critical fronts simultaneously: delivering nearly three tonnes of supplies to the International Space Station and…
SpaceX CRS-34 Delivers Science and Supplies to the ISS
SpaceX's 34th commercial resupply mission for NASA launched on May 15, 2026, carrying close to three metric tons of scientific experiments a…
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