This isn't APEP's first rodeo.The mission's first launchoccurred the 2023 annular eclipse — a dress rehearsal of sorts before the upcoming total solar eclipse. During that test, the rockets recorded interesting data: a dramatic drop in the ionosphere's charged particle density that could cause...
Rockets were previously used to study the effects from October’s annular solar eclipse. According to the researchers, the use of rockets can be carefully planned out to be in the path instead of relying on satellites, which may not be at the right place at the right time. The rockets won...
Scientists at NASA will be sending rockets into the path of Monday's total eclipse in an effort to help unravel the mysteries of the solar system. NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen joined CBS News to discuss some of the scientific aspects of the eclipse.
NASAcompleted stackingof its Space Launch System rocket, with its Orion spacecraft for theArtemis Imission launching in spring 2022. In addition to other highlights, NASA also
Later this month, NASA is launching more than rockets, as America's space agency puts it. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is set to release NASA+, its new, free streaming service this November. For space fans, this is pretty exciting news. But what exactly is NASA+ and...
The red dots over the water show where the five rockets of NASA's ATREX mission will deploy chemical tracers to watch how super-fast winds move some 60 miles up in the atmosphere. Three cameras at different sites will track the cloud tracers. (Image credit: NASA/Larsen) A quintuple ...
Though the Delta IV Heavy is one of the world's most powerful rockets, Parker Solar Probe is relatively small, about the size of a small car. But what Parker Solar Probe needs is energy—getting to the Sun takes a lot of energy at launch to achieve its orbit around the Sun. That's...
unlike rockets like SpaceX's Falcon 9 that land after launching into space, is a single-use rocket (like the Saturn V). Already the first four SLS launches,to the NASA inspector general's dismay, are grossly overpriced at $4.1 billion per trip. A reusable rocket could make NASA's human...
As rockets become more and more powerful, the systems that protect them need to keep pace. NASA will use almost a half-million gallons of water to keep the Space Launch System (SLS) safe and stable enough to launch successfully. The system that delivers all that water is called the Ignitio...
NASA's Kepler Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other Earths NASA's Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST, Friday. Kepler is designed to find the first Earth-size planets...