ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
A mosaic of Shackleton Crater created by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and ShadowCam teams. Credit: NASA/KARI/ASU HELSINKI — China will attempt to land on the illuminated rim of Shackleton crater near the lunar south pole with its 2026 Chang’e-7
Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles, the Associated Press reports. The Iranian Soraya satellite was placed in an orbit
Jaxa produced this render of Slim to show the awkward landing orientation that pointed the solar cells away from the Sun [Credit: JAXA] Japan’s Moon lander has resumed operations after being shut down for a week due to a power
“It’s taken a lot of modifications on our part to get this hardware ready to go fly.” A Northrop Grumman Cygnus freighter spacecraft in between two halves of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket payload fairing. (Image credit: NASA/Kennedy Space Center)
Virgin Galactic’s VSS unity suborbital spaceplane lands at Spaceport America at the conclusion of the Galactic 06 flight Jan 26. Credit: Spaceport America WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic conducted its first suborbital mission of 2024 on Jan. 26 as the company
A gravitational wave detector in space will be sensitive to unexplored phenomena. The LISA project will consist of three spacecraft in a triangular configuration, exchanging lasers. On Thursday, the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee gave the go-ahead to the
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on the International Space Station as the orbitng complex flew 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexican state of Nayarit. Photo credit:
New contract qualifies Firefly’s Alpha rocket to launch satellites for the NRO from both Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral. Cedar Park, Texas, January 25, 2024 – Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, today announced it was selected by the
The tiny LEV-2 rover, one of SLIM’s traveling companions, took the historic photo Japan just got an epic new photo to put in its space exploration scrapbook. The country’s SLIM spacecraft landed on the moon on Jan. 19, making Japan
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has come to an end. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has