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Tuesday 02/10/15 at 10:10 AM by Mallory Schnell

DSCOVR Mission to Launch This Evening

NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory mission is scheduled to launch this evening from Cape Canaveral, weather permitting. The DSCOVR satellite will orbit the sun in order to monitor solar wind that could affect our planet. Solar wind is highly variable, as it can lead to beautiful auroras, but can also impact electrical power grids. DSCOVR […]

Friday 12/05/14 at 9:09 AM by Mallory Schnell

NASA’s Orion Test Flight is a Go

After technical difficulties that kept NASA’s Orion from launching yesterday, the spacecraft had lift off this morning at 7:05 AM EST. At the time of this post, Orion has reached over 3,600 miles above Earth and is heading back towards our planet at 20,000 miles per hour. The spacecraft is expected to land in the […]

Tuesday 10/28/14 at 7:19 PM by Tyler Smith

NASA Rocket Explodes

Antares, an unmanned rocket NASA was sending to the International Space Station exploded nearly 6 seconds after take off. Check out this footage and live stream. Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream The #Antares launch has failed. pic.twitter.com/4GS01dK1wM — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 28, 2014 The news conference following today's @OrbitalSciences launch mishap is […]