Orion: Safeguarding Humanity’s Return to the Moon and the Journey Beyond
Monday, 17 November 2025 18:15
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is built around a single, uncompromising principle—crew must return home safely.
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NASA faces another shift in its leadership—and in its vision
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Leonids meteor shower: When and where to see the celestial show
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ESA investigates high-stakes Amazon tipping point
Monday, 17 November 2025 12:45
For decades, the Amazon rainforest has quietly absorbed vast quantities of human-generated carbon dioxide, helping to slow the pace of climate change. Recent evidence, however, suggests that this vital natural buffer may be weakening – though uncertainties remain.
To help close this critical knowledge gap, European and Brazilian researchers have gathered deep in the Amazon to carry out an ambitious European Space Agency-funded field campaign.
China to launch Shenzhou-22 spacecraft Nov. 25 to provide lifeboat for astronauts
Monday, 17 November 2025 09:50
China is set to launch an uncrewed Shenzhou spacecraft to the Tiangong space station to provide the Shenzhou-21 astronauts with a means of returning home.
FAA ends commercial launch curfew
Monday, 17 November 2025 07:49
The FAA has ended restrictions on the timing of commercial launches that were triggered by the government shutdown’s effects on airspace management.
Copernicus Sentinel-6B begins mission to advance ocean science
Monday, 17 November 2025 07:10
Copernicus Sentinel-6B launched today, 17 November, at 06:21 CET aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The satellite was delivered into orbit just under an hour after liftoff, and at 07:54 CET ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany received the signal via the Inuvik ground station in Canada, confirming that Sentinel-6B is operational and healt Falcon 9 launches Sentinel-6B satellite to monitor global sea level
Monday, 17 November 2025 07:06
A Falcon 9 launched a joint U.S.
Sentinel-6B launch highlights
Monday, 17 November 2025 07:00
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Copernicus Sentinel-6B was launched on 17 November 2025, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change. The satellite was carried into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.
Sentinel-6B follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which was launched in 2020. The mission is the reference radar altimetry mission that continues the vital record of sea-surface height measurements until at least 2030.
Copernicus Sentinel-6 has become the gold standard reference mission to monitor and record
Sentinel-6B launched to extend record of sea-level rise
Monday, 17 November 2025 05:56
The latest guardian of our oceans has taken its place in orbit. The Copernicus Sentinel-6B satellite is now circling Earth, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.
Sentinel-6B is launched
Monday, 17 November 2025 05:00
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Copernicus Sentinel-6B was launched on 17 November 2025, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change. The satellite was carried into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.
Sentinel-6B follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which was launched in 2020. The mission is the reference radar altimetry mission that continues the vital record of sea-surface height measurements until at least 2030.
Copernicus Sentinel-6 has become the gold standard reference mission to monitor and record
Can America Beat China Back to the Moon?
Monday, 17 November 2025 03:28
The United States faces a narrowing window to claim its position as the first nation to return humans to the Moon in the 21st century. While NASA's official timeline targets Artemis 3 for no earlier than mid-2027 - roughly three years before China's 2030 lunar landing goal - the path forward is fraught with technical complexity, schedule pressure, and the kind of engineering challenges that have historically humbled even the most ambitious space programs.