SPACENEWS

The European Service Module-2 and Orion crew module adapter for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft was moved into the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell inside NASA's Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 22 May 2023. The spacecraft modules will be integrated with the crew module before Read More

In brief Mars appears in the night sky different from all the other gleaming dots in the darkness. Look carefully and even to the naked eye it has an orangey hue, look even closer and there’s a twenty-year-old spacecraft that has been lovingly circling it for two decades. Peering down on Mars’ familiar but eerily Read More

A delicate tracery of dust and bright star clusters threads across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The bright tendrils of gas and stars belong to the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, whose bright central bar is visible in the upper left of this image. NGC 5068 lies around 17 million light-years from Earth Read More

Exactly two decades ago, on 2 June 2003, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter launched and began its journey to the Red Planet – Europe’s first ever mission to Mars.  The spacecraft aimed to enter orbit around Mars (something it did in December of that year) and use its vantage point to study the martian atmosphere and Read More

From the Chugach Mountains on the right to the Cook Inlet on the left, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features the varied landscape surrounding Anchorage, the largest and most populous city in the state of Alaska in the United States. Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the Read More

SpaceX Starship Remotes Inside pad - photos to remember photos by Scott SCHILKE spacenews.lu / space-news.es Read More

▪ Europe’s first Global 7500 simulator will be deployed at CAE Vienna▪ The six-simulator centre is set to open in 2024 CAE today announced at the 2023 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE 2023) that it is expanding its global,network to Central Europe with a new business aviation training centre in Vienna, Austria, scheduled Read More

What a beautiful time of day with storm clouds in the background as SpaceX Axiom 2 liftoffs off at 5:37 PM from LC-39A on Dragon "Freedom" capsule with a crew of four on May 21st 2023!Mission Commander Peggy Whitson (American) a retired NASA astronaut now with Axiom, Pilot John Soffner from Alaska (American), Mission Specialist Read More

Ax-2: The second private mission to the International Space Station The Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) astronauts are part of the latest class of space pioneers and Axiom Space's next crew to expand access to the International Space Station (ISS) and low-Earth orbit. Aboard the orbiting laboratory, the four-person, multinational crew will conduct extensive research, investigate Read More

At 1:03 AM EDT May 14th 2023 SpaceX team & Elon Musk launched Starlink mission 5-9 from SLC-40 in mostly clear skies on the spacecoast at Cape Canaveral Florida.  First stage booster B-1067 made its 12th flight into space and successfully landed back on JRTI down range near the Bahamas due to this southern trajectory Read More