NASA launches spacecraft to gauge if Jupiter’s moon Europa can host life
Reuters NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to be lurking beneath its thick outer shell of ice. The US space agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft blasted off from the Kennedy […]
NASA spacecraft to study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa can harbour life
Washington DC, US Reuters NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa, considered one of our solar system’s most promising spots to search for life beyond Earth, to learn whether this ice-encased world believed to harbour a vast underground ocean is habitable. The US space agency’s robotic solar-powered Europa Clipper spacecraft will […]
Crew with first astronaut from Turkey launched on flight to space station
Cape Canaveral, Florida, US Reuters Turkey’s first astronaut and three other crew members representing Europe were launched from Florida on Thursday on a voyage to the International Space Station in the latest commercially arranged mission from Texas startup Axiom Space. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the Axiom quartet lifted off atop a Falcon 9 […]
SpaceX launches latest space station crew to orbit for NASA
Cape Canaveral, Florida, US Reuters Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an […]
Fuel leak to delay first launch of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket for weeks
Cape Canaveral, Florida Reuters For the second time in a week, NASA on Saturday aborted an attempt to launch its giant, next-generation rocketship, citing a stubborn fuel leak that the space agency said could delay the debut mission of its moon-to-Mars Artemis program by at least several weeks. Preflight operations were called off for the […]