In October 2023, a trio of sounding rockets traveled more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) into the ionosphere before returning safely back to theEarth's surface. Now, they're getting ready for their second flight. NASA's Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission — named fo...
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.
- When the total solar eclipse passes over North America on April 8, the sights of the Moon and the Sun will not be the only features flying high above Earth - NASA is planning to launch a series of rockets to study the impacts the event will have on the atmosphere. The space agency...
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 rockets will blast off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., on the Atlantic coast during a window that opens tonight at midnight EDT (0400 GMT) and closes at 1:30 a.m. EDT Thursday (0530 GMT). As part of the mission, the five rockets will each release ...
And for good reason. Relaunching expensive engines and hardware saves bounties of money,making spaceflight markedly cheaper. But the SLS, 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...
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...
The technology demonstration is important on two counts. First, it could offer a path to creating breathable air for future astronauts visiting Mars. And second, it provides engineers with useful data on how to isolate and store oxygen on the planet, a process essential for launching rockets off...
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...
Highlighted two solar eclipses this year including apartial solar eclipsein June and atotal solar eclipsein December visible to people in Antarctica. Observations of totalsolar eclipsesrevealed the Sun’s corona maintains a fairly constant temperature despite its solar cycles. ...