Photo credit: Don Pettit
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this once in a lifetime image of the Milky Way, zodiacal light, and SpaceX’s Starlink satellites above Earth in a single image. For those wondering what zodiacal light is, it refers to the faint elongated cone of lights you see above that extends from the horizon along the ecliptic.
NASA astronaut Don Petit captured a fascinating video of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule undocking from the International Space Station (ISS), or more specifically Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) 31. No, the spacecraft isn’t blasting off at incredible speeds, as what you’re about to see is a time-lapse.
NASA and SpaceX tease new key moments of the upcoming Artemis lunar lander mission with a series of new images. In the images above, we can see the SpaceX Starship tanker transferring propellant to Starship depot in low Earth orbit (top) and Orion docking with SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS).
The SpaceX Starship prototype successfully completed its 6th test flight on Monday after being launched from Starbase in South Texas at 17:00 ET. However, the first-stage booster, named Super Heavy, could not be landed back at the launch tower due to the launch triggering a commit criteria.
Air France is set to join Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines by equipping their entire fleet with high-speed SpaceX Starlink internet starting in 2025. This new service will be completely free of charge in all travel cabins and accessible to passengers who log into their Flying Blue account.
Hawaiian Airlines was the first to equip their planes with SpaceX’s Starlink, and now, United Airlines is the next big carrier to soon offer the service at no cost to passengers. This means that if the in-flight entertainment system just isn’t cutting it, you’ll be able to play multiplayer mobile games, enjoy live TV, watch streaming services, partake in social media, or even shop 35,000 feet in the air.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman has successfully completed the first private civilian spacewalk in history as part of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew. After the Crew Dragon Resilience launched ) atop a Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from the historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Isaacman exited the capsule at about 6:48 a.m. EDT.
