The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

mission specialist and medical officer, were in SpaceX’s Dragon capsule as the company’s Falcon 9 rocket took them to the first-ever polar orbit by humans. The 4.5-hour launch window opened at ...

Few details were publicly released about the classified SpaceX NROL-69 mission, which lifted off at 1:48 p.m. EDT Monday from ...

A solar jet captured by the Solar Orbiter unleashed a mind-blowing 200,000-fold increase in a rare helium isotope, 3He – far ...

Learn how Metis' majority veteran team supports safety at Cape Canaveral through a more than $50 million government contract.

China launched Thursday what appears to be the third satellite for a subset of classified, experimental satellites bound for ...

The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic mission. In a discussion with ...

All four are explorers of extreme places on Earth, such as the polar regions ... p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40.

The international four-person crew returns after nearly four days in space and observing Earth’s poles from orbit for the ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is launched, carrying four commercial astronauts into a 90-degree inclination polar orbit on the Fram2 mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida ...

(Photo from SpaceX video) Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday morning, splashing down off Oceanside to end their privately funded polar tour.

During the nearly four-day mission, Wang, Mikkelsen ... Their core objective was to fly a 90-degree polar orbit, comfortably the highest inclination ever reached by a crewed spacecraft, to ...