3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (368+ words) On Sept. 9, 1982, the first private rocket launched from a Texas cattle ranch. The Conestoga 1 rocket was designed by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) and built from spare parts of other rockets. It was named after a type of covered…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (286+ words) The Roman Space Telescope began its cosmic journey on Aug. 30. Then, its taxi returned to our planet. On Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket — then, after completing its job, the…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (351+ words) The new antenna will boost capacity on NASA's increasingly strained deep-space communications network as Artemis and other missions drive up demand. The Deep Space Network (DSN), best known for communicating with distant spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (341+ words) SpaceNASA Roman’s Planet Imager Has Powered On NASA Science (.gov)Opinion | Congressional Lawmakers Reach for the Stars WSJNASA’s latest mission to map the cosmos takes off The EconomistWhy it matters that President Trump just dialed in to a NASA news…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (186+ words) 27 Merlin engines generate some serious thrust. Falcon Heavy sent Roman to a gravitationally stable parking spot known as Lagrange Point 2, located 1 million miles away (1.5 million kilometers) between Earth and Mars, where the gravitational pulls of the sun and Earth equal…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (553+ words) "None of us will be here when this journey ends, and that is the point." The first dedicated mission to another star will launch before the end of the decade, if all goes according to plan. A nonprofit called the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (443+ words) Space.com's Josh Dinner caught an amazing shot of NASA's Roman Space Telescope crossing the sun on a SpaceX rocket. But why was he at Hobby Lobby? CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Standing in the parking lot of the Titusville Hobby Lobby…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (199+ words) NASA caught a breathtaking image of its next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope deploying into space shortly after launch. This image was captured just some 31 minutes after the Roman telescope took off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (339+ words) "You're the hottest in space, and we have the hottest country anywhere in the world." CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —President Trump interrupted a NASA press conference today (Aug. 30) to congratulate the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team on a successful launch....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (863+ words) "We're just about to set foot off into the unknown." CAPE CANAVAREL, Fla. — It was a bright and sunny morning here in Florida when the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off planet Earth against a magical blue sky. "What…...