George Dvorsky
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Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts Record-Breaking Launch of Falcon Heavy
SpaceX is set to make history with tonight’s scheduled launch of the heaviest geostationary satellite ever, EchoStar 24, also known as Jupiter 3. You can catch the action live right here. Jupiter 3 will be launched using SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, one of the world’s most powerful operational rockets. The launch is scheduled for Thursday, July…
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Hubble Spots ‘Boulder Cloud’ From NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have detected nearly 40 boulders near Dimorphos—the target of NASA’s wildly successful DART experiment to deflect a non-threatening asteroid. This isn’t exactly positive news, since it suggests that hitting a bona fide hazardous asteroid might create a cluster of possibly dangerous boulders advancing towards Earth. I’m inclined to frame…
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Triple-Core Rockets and ‘Doughnuts’ on Mars: Marvel at the Best Spaceflight Imagery From June
There’s plenty of smoke in the air — and not just from Canada’s raging wildfires. Indeed, the past month was witness to a steady cadence of rocket launches and rocket tests, all spewing out excitement and hope. At the same time, probes already working in space beamed back evidence of their important work.
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Time-Lapse Shows First-Ever Livestream From Mars
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express Orbiter, the European Space Agency broadcast the first-ever Mars livestream, in a historic event that unfolded over an hour on Friday, June 3. A newly released animation shows a sped-up version of how the livestream unfolded.