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Going live! Launch in less than 20 minutes! Successful launch and S/C separated! Launch of ISRO's GSLV-F08 carrying the GSAT-6A satellite March 29, 2018 - YouTube

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.II will lift the GSAT-6A Communications Satellite into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The 2,100-Kilogram GSAT-6A joins a series of satellites for multi-media and mobile applications, hosting a payload comprising five C-by-S and five S-by-C-Band...

Learned something new today: FELT. Kepler Solves Mystery of Fast and Furious Explosions For the past decade astronomers have been befuddled by a more curious "flash-in-the-pan" that pops up and then disappears in just a few days, not weeks. It's called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient...

The latest JPL Von Karman Lecture series talks about "Planning Cassini's Grand Finale." Very nice video! :thumbup:

A Russian Soyuz FG rocket will launch the crewed Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft into orbit for a two-day rendezvous with the International Space Station to bring the Expedition 55/56 crew to their orbital home and workplace for a half-year mission. Engineers readied a Russian Soyuz rocket for launch...

Time to update this thread! NASA to allow nuclear power systems for next Discovery mission WASHINGTON — Citing progress in producing plutonium-238, NASA will allow scientists proposing missions for an upcoming planetary science competition to use nuclear power sources. In a statement issued...

Confirmed! ESA's next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets! About Ariel: ARIEL, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, was selected as the fourth medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. It will study what exoplanets are made of, how they...

Some new shots of the interior. Video and images shown during the recent Space Industry Talk by Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer in SpaceX. Source: Reddit/NSF

Some updates This view from NASA’s Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres’ Juling Crater, which is in almost permanent shadow. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/ASI/INAF Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface...

In Sardinia last week, Avio tested the Zefiro 40 (Z40) engine, the second stage propulsion system of the Vega C satellite launcher, an evolution of the current Vega launcher scheduled to lift off for its maiden flight in 2019. This is the first functional test required to qualify this new...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot Getting Taller as it Shrinks, NASA Team Finds A new study suggests that it hasn’t all been downhill, though. The storm seems to have increased in area at least once along the way, and it’s growing taller as it gets smaller. “Storms are dynamic, and that’s what we see...

This is actually a 3-probe news, combining SOHO, STEREO and SDO. But there are no SOHO and STEREO updates threads, so I posted it here. Recreating Solar Eruption in 3D Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks associated with coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the...

No, we are not yet done with this. :lol: Some more footage... 1:11 shows the booster heading straight for the Atlantic, just beside the drone ship.

A “Europeanized” Soyuz rocket will launch from the Guiana Space Center with the third set of O3b satellites joining a constellation of telecommunications satellites placed into an 8,063-Kilometer orbit above the equator to deliver low-latency data services to the developing world. O3b stands for...

| SpaceX is targeting a Falcon 9 launch of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Tuesday, March 6 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The two-hour launch window opens at 12:33 a.m. EST, or 5:33 UTC, with a...

Ryugu Detected! Nearly 3 years later... Target found! On February 26, 2018, Hayabusa2 saw its destination —asteroid Ryugu— for the first time! The photographs were captured by the ONC-T (Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic) onboard the spacecraft. Images were taken between noon JST on...

|| A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the GOES-S weather satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the second in an upgraded generation of Geostationary Meteorological Satellites, delivering critical data for weather now- and forecasting...

Stratolaunch on Twitter: "Just released new aerial and ground shots of the latest test series performed this weekend. More to come! https://t.co/dTuoV0D48d… https://t.co/pK1PTpFeZv" Stratolaunch Taxi Test - YouTube Oh, and we have this one! :lol:

Water everywhere! On Second Thought, the Moon's Water May Be Widespread and Immobile A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain. The water appears to...

NASA’s SDO Reveals How Magnetic Cage on the Sun Stopped Solar Eruption A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun’s magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development...