Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth Planning Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 As Curiosity nears the end of the Altadena drill campaign, the rover continues its exploration of Martian bedrock within the intriguing boxwork structures on Mount Sharp. Following the successful delivery of powdered rock…
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are evaluating potential launch windows for Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), with no earlier target than Thursday, June 19. The mission was delayed on June 12 as NASA continued to coordinate with Roscosmos to assess recent repair efforts addressing minor leaks…
NASA’s PUNCH mission (short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) has just shared its first-ever images of massive solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. These stunning visuals were unveiled on Tuesday at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. The newly released images, compiled into a video, capture…
The seventh flight test of Starship and Super Heavy flew with ambitious goals, aiming to successfully repeat the corecapability of returning and catching a booster while launching an upgraded design of the upper stage. While not everytest objective was completed, the lessons learned will roll directly into future vehicles to make them more capable asStarship…
In addition to continued infrastructure development at Starbase, Texas, where SpaceX is headquartered,SpaceX is expanding its Starship operations in Florida, bringing Starship production and launch capabilitiesto the Space Coast. As flight testing and development of Starship continues at Starbase in Texas, SpaceX isbuilding a new integration facility, called Gigabay, next to its HangarX location at…
JunoCam Delivers Dazzling New Views as Mission Breaks New Ground in Jovian Science During its 69th close pass by Jupiter on January 28, 2025, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a stunning, enhanced-color image of the gas giant’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers). Taken by JunoCam, the image peeks into a…
