Moon

NASA’s Epic Week: Moon Rocket Ready, Mars Life Clue, and an Interstellar Visitor

Artemis on the Fast Track – and a New Moon Race NASA’s Moon program reached a major milestone this week: engineers at Kennedy Space Center finished stacking the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 2, placing the Orion crew capsule (nicknamed “Integrity”) atop the booster space.com. “The towering rocket…has come together,” NASA announced, after hoisting Orion onto SLS inside the Vehicle Assembly Building space.com. This completed rocket – set to launch four astronauts around the Moon – was even exempted from the ongoing federal shutdown, underscoring Artemis 2’s high priority space.com. The mission is targeting February 2026 for liftoff, which would mark

27 October 2025

SpaceX’s Mega Starship Aces Final V2 Test – ‘One Step Closer to Moon!’

The Final Starship V2 Test Flight At 6:23 p.m. local time on Oct. 13, SpaceX lit the engines on Starship Flight 11. The vehicle — fully stacked and standing ~121 m (400 ft) tall space.com ts2.tech — roared off the Starbase launch tower under 33 ground-level Raptor engines, generating about 16 million pounds of thrust (over twice that of the Saturn V moon rocket) ts2.tech. The Super Heavy booster carried its upper-stage “Ship 38” clear of the pad in a plume of flame. The only anomaly during ascent was one Raptor failing to reignite during a planned boost-back burn; that engine later relit during the landing

14 October 2025

Aerospace News · Moon Missions · Rocket Technology · Space Exploration · SpaceX

October 2025 Space Roundup: Record Launches, Moon Mysteries & Budget Battles Rock the Space World

Sources: Authoritative space news outlets and agencies on Oct. 6–7, 2025, including Space.com, NASA and ESA releases, and Spaceflight Now space.com sciencedaily.com space.com space.com space.com tii.ae. These sources provide official data, mission details, and expert quotes for each item above.

7 October 2025

Moon Exploration · NASDAQ:RKLB · Rocket Launches · Space Industry · Space News · Space Policy

Space Race in 48 Hours: Starship Roars, Moon Mission Nears & Space Tourism Soars

Key Facts (Sept. 23–24, 2025) Satellite Launches & Space Missions Solar Probes Take Flight: On Sept. 24, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 thundered off pad 39A in Florida carrying three solar science spacecraft: NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a small Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 space-weather monitor science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. Liftoff was targeted for 7:30 a.m. EDT, with the booster aiming to hurl the payloads toward the Sun-Earth L1 point, about a million miles out nasa.gov nasa.gov. This mission inaugurates a new era in heliophysics – IMAP will map the boundaries of the heliosphere (the “bubble” of solar wind around our solar system) to

24 September 2025

Moon Missions · Science News · Space · Space Exploration · Space Tourism · Starship

Space Weekend Shockers: Starlink Blitz, Moon Rover Revival & Mars Life Clues (Sept 20–21, 2025)

Key Facts Satellite Launches & Mission Updates SpaceX’s Starlink Surge: SpaceX capped a busy week with back-to-back Starlink launches. On Sept. 19, a Falcon 9 from foggy Vandenberg SFB deployed 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit space.com, using a veteran booster on its 10th flight space.com. This boosted the Starlink constellation to around 8,400 active satellites, the largest ever space.com. Just hours later, SpaceX rolled out another Falcon 9 in Florida for a near-sunrise launch on Sept. 21 carrying 28 more Starlink V2 Mini satellites spaceflightnow.com. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral at 6:53 a.m. EDT Sunday went off smoothly, with the booster landing at sea

21 September 2025

Mars Exploration · Moon Missions · Science Discoveries · Space · Space News · Starlink

SpaceX Starship’s Epic Test Flight Stuns the World – What It Means for Moon, Mars, and Beyond

Starship’s Latest Test: Breaking New Ground in South Texas SpaceX’s Starship program notched a dramatic success on August 26, 2025, when the giant Starship rocket aced its 10th flight test from the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas space.com. At 7:30 p.m. ET that day, the 40-story vehicle thundered off the pad on 33 Raptor engines, delivering a ground-shaking 16 million pounds of thrust – more than twice the power of NASA’s Saturn V or SLS moon rockets spaceflightnow.com. SpaceX employees cheered as the booster propelled the Starship upper stage toward space, marking the first time in over a

19 September 2025

Mars Colonization · Moon Missions · Space · Space Exploration · Space Technology · Starship

Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Celestial Show: Moon & Venus Dawn Dance, Saturn at Peak Brightness, and Aurora Alerts

In-Depth: This Weekend’s Celestial Highlights (Sept. 19–20, 2025) 1. A Dazzling Dawn Conjunction (Moon, Venus & Regulus) – Sept. 19 & 20 If you’re up early, look east before sunrise on Friday, Sept. 19. You’ll be rewarded with a gorgeous trio of celestial objects clustered together in the growing dawn light earthsky.org. The crescent Moon, just 27 days old and barely 7% illuminated, will hover right above brilliant Venus (the brightest “star” in the sky at that hour) predicalendar.com earthsky.org. Just adjacent to Venus you’ll spot Regulus, the blue-white heart of the Leo constellation. NASA calls it “a magnificent conjunction”

19 September 2025

Astronomy · Aurora · Celestial Events · Planetary Science · Stargazing

Space Race Revs Up: Secret Spaceplane, “Noah’s Ark” Satellite & Hidden Moon – All the Space News (Aug 21–22, 2025)

Commercial Space Sector: Launches, Satellites & Space Tourism Government Space Agencies: Programs, Missions & Collaboration Military & Defense Space: Secret Launches and Surveillance Science & Exploration: New Discoveries and ISS Experiments Sources: Space.com space.com space.com; KEYT News keyt.com keyt.com; NASA (news releases & blogs) nasa.gov nasa.gov ts2.tech; India Today indiatoday.in indiatoday.in; TS² Space News ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech; NASA Science (Lonnie Shekhtman) science.nasa.gov; NASA Science (DART findings) science.nasa.gov; etc.

22 August 2025

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75 Mice, a Secret Spaceplane & a New Moon: Major Space News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

On August 19, CAS Space launched the Lijian-1 (Kinetica-1) Y10 from Jiuquan, deploying seven satellites including ThumbSat-1 and ThumbSat-2 (~100 grams each) built in Mexico. The Lijian-1 is the eighth flight in the Kinetica-1 series and CAS Space says it can loft 50+ satellites per mission with launch costs below $10,000 per kilogram to orbit, including an X-band radar Earth-imaging satellite and a Tianyan-26 cubesat. Roscosmos launched the Bion-M No.2 biosatellite on August 20 aboard a Soyuz-2.1b from Baikonur, carrying 75 mice, over 1,000 fruit flies, microorganisms, plant seeds and cell cultures for a 30-day microgravity and radiation exposure. NASA’s

20 August 2025

Astronomy · Science News · Space · Space Missions · Technology

Space Race 2.0 Heats Up: Starlink Mega-Launch, Moon Deals & NASA-Russia Reunion Rock the Space World

SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:37 p.m. EDT on July 29, 2025, and the Falcon 9 first stage landed on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions,” marking the booster’s 26th flight and pushing Starlink to over 8,000 active satellites. SpaceX marked its 96th launch of 2025 on July 29, 2025, underscoring a near-daily cadence for the year. NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station is targeted for liftoff on July 31, 2025 at 12:09 p.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center, with four astronauts including Mike Fincke and a multinational crew, and NASA’s

30 July 2025

NASA · News · Space · SpaceX · Technology