November 6th, 2026
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Since its launch in 2004, and after two decades of watching space for gamma-ray bursts, NASA’s Swift Observatory reentered into Earth’s atmosphere on November 4. Various tracking groups, such as The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS), relying of U.S. Space Force tracking data, pegged the spacecraft’s uncontrolled demise. Weighing some […]
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NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory careened into the Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, Nov. 4, almost 22 years after launch. The U.S. Space Force confirmed that the Swift spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at 7:39 a.m. EST Wednesday over the North Sumatra region of Indonesia, at approximately 3.4 degrees north latitude and 98.6 degrees east longitude. According […]
NASA’s twin Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) will perform a “powered” flyby of Earth, combining Earth’s gravity with an engine burn, to slingshot itself toward Mars. The first spacecraft will conduct its flyby and engine burn around 5 a.m. EST on Saturday, Nov. 7. The second will do so two days later, […]
Alex Innanen, an atmospheric scientist at York University, notes that the NASA Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater has been keeping an eye on martian clouds. These high-altitude clouds are characteristic of the sky above the robot’s exploration zone. “Autumn means the return of high-altitude twilight clouds, which the low sun angle at sunset illuminates […]
China continues to chart its first crewed Moon landing before 2030, detailing current plans last weekend during the Seventh Manned Space Symposium in Beijing. The two-day symposium drew more than 800 experts and scholars to explore how digital and intelligent technologies can advance human spaceflight. Uncrewed test flights of the Mengzhou crewed spacecraft and the […]
It came from outer space, exploding high above the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina. That April 1 event was an incoming meteor – also termed as a bolide – was observed by both U.S. space-based military and civil sensors. Hush-hush U.S. government satellite sensors detected the speedy fireball cutting through our atmosphere. The […]
An upcoming and uncontrolled reentry of the NASA’s Swift observatory is expected to occur in the next few days. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reentry into Earth’s atmosphere signals a number of issues. One of those was a botched rescue mission to keep the orbiting telescope in high-flying, sky surveillance mode. Following the termination of […]
The now-orbiting Shenzhou-23 crew aboard China’s Tiangong space station has recently completed the fifth transfer of material exposure experimental apparatus to the station’s exterior, advancing a series of experiments that have yielded multiple world firsts. Crew members — Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying — were sent into space aboard the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft on […]
Virgin Galactic’s newly named spaceship Apeiron departed Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona early today mated to Eve, the company’s launch vehicle. The vehicle combo landed at Spaceport America in New Mexico at 12:59 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Pilot in Command Michael Masucci and Pilot Dan Alix flew Eve, with Flight Test Engineer Tori Crichton on […]
Suborbital spaceplane-provider, Virgin Galactic, has announced the name of its lead Delta spaceship: Apeiron (App-Err-On). That name was chosen by a public vote and draws upon responses from around the world — including 83 countries and six continents. Aperion stems from the ancient Greek concept of “the boundless.” Also today, Virgin Galactic’s Apeiron will fly […]
