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VideoRide with NASA’s Juno orbiter over turbulent Jupiter
Take a trip around Jupiter with NASA's Juno spacecraft in a time-lapse animation created from a sequence of images taken during the probe's last close-up flyby of the gas giant May 19.
VideoRussia sends military satellite into orbit for missile warnings
Russia lofted a military satellite Thursday to join a network of orbiting early warning stations detecting and tracking missile launches around the world, providing the Russian government notice of potential attack.
VideoSmall satellite launcher set for first orbital test flight this week
The first test flight of Rocket Lab's commercially-developed Electron launcher was held up by weather Sunday, but conditions could improve for a launch attempt Monday from New Zealand to place an instrumented rocket stage into Earth orbit in a demonstration of the company's low-cost delivery system for lightweight satellites.
VideoVideo: Soyuz blasts off from South America
A 151-foot-tall Soyuz launcher climbed into space from French Guiana on Thursday with the Boeing-built SES 15 communications satellite bound for an operating position over the Americas in geostationary orbit.
VideoNASA probe finds Saturn ring gap emptier than predicted
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sped through a gap between Saturn and its rings for the second time Tuesday after data from the probe's first perilous passage through the unexplored region last week found it to contain fewer potentially hazardous dust particles than expected.
VideoGravitational wave testbed repurposed as comet dust detector
In the final months of Europe's LISA Pathfinder mission, scientists have found an unexpected use for the trailblazing testbed for a future gravitational wave observatory by tracking the tiny dings made by microscopic particles that strike the spacecraft in deep space, exploiting the impacts to learn about the population of dust grains cast off by comets and asteroids across the solar system.
VideoChina’s Tianzhou 1 cargo carrier docks with space lab in orbit
Less than two days after launching from southern China, the Tianzhou 1 supply ship glided to an automated linkup with the Chinese Tiangong 2 space laboratory around 240 miles above Earth on Saturday, ready for several months of technical demonstrations to prepare for assembly of a space station in the next few years.
VideoLive coverage: Yurchikhin, Fischer reach space station after fast-track rendezvous
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, on his fifth trip into space, and rookie NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, a Colorado native, blasted off aboard a Soyuz booster at 0713 GMT (3:13 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, heading for the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month expedition. The duo docked with the orbiting outpost at 1318 GMT (9:18 a.m. EDT).
VideoChina’s first robotic resupply freighter transferred to launch pad
Chinese engineers rolled out a Long March 7 rocket to a seaside launch complex on Hainan Island in the South China Sea on Monday, aiming to fire a robotic refueling freighter into orbit as soon as Thursday to test technology for China's future space station.
VideoSoyuz booster moved to launch pad to loft two-man crew
A Russian Soyuz rocket rolled to its launch pad in Kazakhstan early Monday aboard a specially-designed rail car, three days before sending a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronaut to the International Space Station.