
Maxar Technologies' Worldview-3 satellite has delivered images of NASA's Landsat 8 spacecraft from ranges of between 56 miles (91.4 kilometers) and 80 miles (129.9 km), showing clear details of the powerful Earth-observation satellite. WOW! MAXAR SATELLITE CAPTURES UP-CLOSE LOOK AT NASA'S LANDSAT 8 SPACECRAFT IN ORBIT - Here's a rare close-up look at an active satellite in orbit. Liftoff was scheduled for Wednesday, April 26, at 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC) at the start of a 57-minute. VIASAT-3 AMERICAS HOPING FOR FRIDAY RIDE ON EXPENDABLE FALCON HEAVY LAUNCH - Falcon Heavy’s second launch of 2023 is being prepared for liftoff with the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite as the main payload, plus the much smaller Arcturus and G-Space 1 rideshare satellites. The Russian spacecraft, called Kosmos-2558, was launched into the same orbital plane as the US satellite, called USA-326, in August 2022 and has regularly passed cl. MoreĪ RUSSIAN 'INSPECTOR' SATELLITE APPEARS TO BE CHASING A SECRET US MILITARY SATELLITE IN A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE - A mysterious Russian satellite and a confidential US military satellite appear to be engaged in a cat-and-mouse chase through space. WATCH LIVE: FIRST ARAB SPACEWALKER HEADS OUTSIDE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Veteran NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi suited up and floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to prepare the outpost for new solar arrays and retrieve a disabled S-band antenna for eventual return to Earth. The $250 million experiment led by the Air Force Research Laboratory aims to deliver novel techn. Air Force Navigation Technology Satellite-3 - a flight experiment seven years in the making - is undergoing final tests ahead of a projected 2024 launch.Ī lot is riding on this project. SPACEX LAUNCHES FALCON 9 ROCKET WITH TWO O3B INTERNET SATELLITES - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with a pair of O3b internet satellites for SES Friday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but a last-minute abort for a Falcon Heavy mission later in the night prevented the company from pulling off a launch doubleheader.ĪIR FORCE NAVIGATION SATELLITE EXPERIMENT APPLYING LESSONS FROM GPS - The U.S. EDT (0026 GMT) from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida when SpaceX called a. The heavy-lift Falcon Heavy rocket was 59 seconds from lifting off at 8:26 p.m. SPACEX FALCON HEAVY ROCKET ABORTS TRIPLE SATELLITE LAUNCH AT LAST MINUTE - A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying three satellites aborted an attempted launch at the last minute late Friday (April 28).

EDT (0026 GMT on May 1), carrying three satellite. The Falcon Heavy lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday at 8:26 p.m. SPACEX LAUNCHES 3 SATELLITES TO ORBIT ON 6TH-EVER FALCON HEAVY MISSION - SpaceX launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for the sixth time ever on Sunday (April 30), sending three satellites toward distant geostationary orbit.
