The pace of rocket launches has ballooned in recent years, making it a challenge to know what mission is launching and when. In this launch guide, the Space.com news team aims to keep you up to date on the latest rocket launches. If there is a rocket launch today, you'll find details...
“The SLS is the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built, and during today’s test the core stage of the rocket generated more than 1.6 million pounds of thrust within seven seconds. The SLS is an incredible feat of engineering and the only rocket capable of powering America’s ...
Dave Mosher
There is a rocket tower in Mississippi that's ready to test NASA engines powerful enough to push a rocket to the Moon and Mars.There's one problem: NASA canceled the rocket it planned to use to take man to the Moon and Mars years ago. Despite that, Congress ordered the agency to keep...
From left to right, these images show a total solar eclipse, annular solar eclipse, and partial solar eclipse(Image credit: Total eclipse (left): NASA/MSFC/Joseph Matus; annular eclipse (center): NASA/Bill Dunford; partial eclipse (right): NASA/Bill Ingalls) ...
Twelve big, powerful engines blowing out plumes, however, can cause the same cratering problems that a launching rocket can. So these engines are canted outward so that their plumes blow away from the lander’s legs, and the front of the vehicle where the Perseverance rover will need to app...
“if it's a planetary mission, you end up with a very short window you have to launch in,” says scott messer, program manager for nasa launch services at united launch alliance , which operates the rocket. if a primo day opens up, insight can’t have other peoples’ rocket...
Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s Space Launch System — the massive rocket designed to propel its ambitious Artemis program to establish a base on the moon — is “unaffordable,” according to a report Thursday from the US Government Accountability Office. ...
Launching a rocket requires companies to get the agency’s blessing, and the FAA also oversees investigations into rocket mishaps, such as the one that occurred with SpaceX’s Starship on Thursday. Trump’s inauguration takes place Monday. Musk is expected to be in attendance. ...
This monster rocket that NASA is building to shuttle astronauts to Mars just passed a major milestoneEmma FierbergJessica Orwig