NASA has assigned Kayla Barron to serve as a mission specialist for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which is targeted to launch as early as Oct. 23.

The Zhurong rover has successfully landed on the Red Planet in an ambitious first for China’s space agency. The post China’s Zhurong Rover Lands on Mars appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

The Zhurong rover has successfully landed on the Red Planet in an ambitious first for China’s space agency. The post China’s Zhurong Rover Lands on Mars appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

After glimpsing faint but widespread super-heated material in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, a NASA sounding rocket is going back for more. This time, they’re carrying a new instrument optimized to see it across a wider region of the Sun. The Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph, or EUNIS for short, will launch no earlier than May 18.

During a close solar pass in February, the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager – the only instrument on Solar Orbiter led by a US principal investigator – captured its first solar eruption.

Pockets of liquid water in the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa may last only tens of thousands of years, but they could still be potential habitats for life

First Solar Orbiter movies showing coronal mass ejections (CMEs) A pair of CMEs were detected by multiple instruments during February’s close flyby of the Sun CMEs are eruptions of particles from the solar atmosphere that blast out into the Solar System and have the potential to trigger space weather at Earth Solar Orbiter will begin its main science mission in November this year Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA

Flight Research Inc.’s Bell OH-58C Kiowa helicopter hovers over a helipad after completing an urban air mobility approach at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.

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ESA is forging ahead with advanced developments in two flagship space transportation demonstration projects, Prometheus and Phoebus. This will benefit Europe’s new Ariane 6 launcher in the near-term, and prepare for a new generation of European launch vehicles in the next decade.