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Space News
Space news and analysis from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral
  1. Swamp Works: latest testing, simulated space dirt

    NASA brings moon indoors to Kennedy Space Center

    • Jan. 5, 2014

    A lab in Kennedy Space Center's Swamp Works division is testing robotic mining technologies in a bin of simulated space dirt that is the largest facility of its kind.

  1. NASA video shows sun's 'invisible' wavelengths

    • Jan. 5, 2014

    A fascinating new video composite by NASA shows the sun through various wavelengths that are invisible to the naked eye.

  2. KSC lands secret Air Force X-37B space plane, jobs

    • Jan. 5, 2014
  1. SpaceX still set for Monday launch attempt from Cape Jan. 4, 2014
  2. Secret military space plane moving to KSC Jan. 3, 2014
  3. Stargazing: Nights to get shorter as days grow longer Jan. 2, 2014
  4. Tricky Quadrantids meteor shower to put on radiant display Jan. 2, 2014
  1. SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch slips to next week Jan. 2, 2014
  2. Weather looks good for SpaceX launch Jan. 2, 2014
  3. Forecast favorable for SpaceX launch attempt Friday Dec. 31, 2013
  4. MORE NEWS | ALL RECENT HEADLINES

Satellites and Planets Column

    • SPACE NEWS /
    From day-to-day, a sundial accumulates the small difference from mean time while it is running slow until it is 14 minutes and 6 seconds behind around Feb. 12 each year. File photo

    Stargazing: Nights to get shorter as days grow longer

    Winter began with the longest night of the year, Dec. 21.

    • Jan. 2, 2014

  1. Stargazing: Solar system neighbor Venus shows its phases

    • Dec. 26, 2013

  2. Stargazing: Saturday is the winter solstice

    • Dec. 20, 2013

  3. Bernie Badger: Venus at its brightest, season at its merriest

    • Dec. 5, 2013

More Space News

  1. A conceptual drawing showing a launch complex at the Shiloh site near Kennedy Space Center. Residents will soon get the chance to weigh-in on the controversial proposal. Courtesy of Space Florida/BRPH

    Shiloh conversation starts soon

    Two public meetings have been scheduled as part of a federal environmental review of the state's proposed commercial rocket launch complex inside the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

    • Dec. 30, 2013
    • SPACE NEWS /
    Beyonce is being criticized for the use of audio from the Challenger disaster in her newest song, XO. AP

    Beyonce criticized for sampling Challenger disaster audio

    A song on Beyoncé's latest album has upset families of the victims of the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster.

    • Dec. 30, 2013
  3. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Dec. 3. The second one is Jan. 3. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY

    SpaceX sets Jan. 3 for first launch of new year

    SpaceX getting the launch season going on the Space Coast with a scheduled Jan. 3 blastoff.

    • Dec. 28, 2013
    • SPACE NEWS /
    Watching the SpaceX launch. Spectators gathered on the beach at the south end of Patrick Air Force Base, just north of Pineda Causeway to watch the December 3rd, 2013 liftoff. Tim Shortt, FLORIDA TODAY

    SpaceX targets first launch of 2014 for Jan. 3

    A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off with Thaicom Plc's Thaicom 6 television satellite at 5:50 p.m. EST Jan. 3. Florida Today rocket launch schedule

    • Dec. 27, 2013
  5. Venus, left, orbits between the Earth and the sun and like the moon can display phases. AP

    Stargazing: Solar system neighbor Venus shows its phases

    Venus is known as the 'Evening Star' for a couple of reasons. It appears as a point of light like a star, and it appears only in the early evening, never at midnight.

    • Dec. 26, 2013
    • SPACE NEWS /
    The International Space Station, an image from 2011 NASA

    After spacewalk repair, ISS systems return to normal

    Labs in U.S. portion of ISS back up and running thanks to spacewalking repair.

    • Dec. 27, 2013
    • SPACE NEWS /
    Following two spacewalks to replace a degraded pump module on the truss, or backbone, of the International Space Station, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston successfully restarted the new pump Tuesday night. NASA

    ISS cooling system back to normal after spacewalks

    Laboratories in the U.S. portion of the International Space Station are running at full power again after a pair of spacewalks to repair a partially failed cooling system.

    • Dec. 26, 2013
    • SPACE NEWS /
    In this image taken from video provided by NASA, astronauts Rick Mastracchio, top, and Michael Hopkins work to repair an external cooling line on the International Space Station on Christmas Eve. AP

    Repair gives International Space Station a cool gift

    Spacewalkers on Tuesday delivered a welcome Christmas gift to the International Space Station, completing repairs that were expected to fully restore the outpost's hobbled cooling system.

    • Dec. 25, 2013
    • SPACE NEWS /
    Spacewalkers on Tuesday delivered a welcome Christmas gift to the International Space Station, completing repairs that were expected to fully restore the outpost’s hobbled cooling system. NASA T.V.

    Spacewalkers deliver Christmas gift to ISS with repair of cooling system

    Spacewalkers on Tuesday delivered a welcome Christmas gift to the International Space Station, completing repairs that were expected to fully restore the outpost’s hobbled cooling system.

    • Dec. 24, 2013
    • SPACE NEWS /

    Martian moon has unexplained grooves on its surface

    A new 3D video taken by Mars Express shows the weird stripes the surface of Phobos has. Scientists cannot yet explain how those lines formed on the surface but there are a couple theories. Geraldine Cols Azocar (@geraldinecolsa) explains us what they are.

    • Dec. 24, 2013

  1. KSC lands secret Air Force X-37B space plane, jobs

    Operations of a classified military mini-shuttle will be based at Kennedy Space Center, officials announced Friday....

      12:18 PM, Jan. 5, 2014

  2. NASA brings moon indoors to Kennedy Space Center

    A lab in Kennedy Space Center's Swamp Works division is testing robotic mining technologies in a bin of simulated space dirt that is the largest facility of its kind....

      6:05 PM, Jan. 5, 2014

  3. SpaceX still set for Monday launch attempt from Cape

    SpaceX has confirmed plans for a 5:06 p.m. Monday launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Thai broadcasting satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station....

      3:00 PM, Jan. 4, 2014

  4. Secret military space plane moving to KSC

    A secretive military space plane will base its operations at Kennedy Space Center....

      1:52 PM, Jan. 3, 2014

  5. Florida Today rocket launch schedule

    Stay up-to-date about rocket launches with this schedule....

      12:24 PM, Sep. 23, 2013

  6. SpaceX launch from Cape now Monday

    A SpaceX satellite launch planned today has been delayed until at least Monday....

      11:18 AM, Jan. 3, 2014

  7. NASA video shows sun's 'invisible' wavelengths

    A fascinating new video composite by NASA shows the sun through various wavelengths that are invisible to the naked eye....

      4:35 PM, Jan. 5, 2014

  8. SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch slips to next week

    SpaceX’s planned Friday launch of a commercial broadcasting satellite from Cape Canaveral has slipped to no earlier than Monday....

      6:14 PM, Jan. 2, 2014

  9. Tricky Quadrantids meteor shower to put on radiant display

    The Quadrantids are a tricky shower because they have an extremely short peak, just eight hours...

      10:53 PM, Jan. 2, 2014

  10. Weather looks good for SpaceX launch

    The early forecast is excellent for the Cape's first launch of 2014, SpaceX's planned Friday evening attempt to loft a communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station....

      9:21 AM, Jan. 2, 2014

  11. Forecast favorable for SpaceX launch attempt Friday

    The early forecast is excellent for the Cape's first launch of 2014, SpaceX's planned Friday evening attempt to loft a communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station....

      11:24 AM, Dec. 31, 2013

  12. Stargazing: Nights to get shorter as days grow longer

    Winter began with the longest night of the year, Dec. 21....

      10:31 PM, Jan. 2, 2014

  13. SpaceX targets first launch of 2014 for Jan. 3

    A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off with Thaicom Plc's Thaicom 6 television satellite at 5:50 p.m. EST Jan. 3. Florida Today rocket launch schedule...

      4:25 PM, Dec. 27, 2013

  14. Beyonce criticized for sampling Challenger disaster audio

    A song on Beyoncé's latest album has upset families of the victims of the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster....

      6:01 PM, Dec. 30, 2013

  15. SpaceX launch contracts gave it edge to win KSC launch pad 39A

    SpaceX’s significant roster of launches under contract gave it the edge over Blue Origin to win use of a historic Kennedy Space Center launch pad, according to a NASA selection statement released today. ...

      4:08 PM, Dec. 20, 2013

  16. ISS cooling system back to normal after spacewalks

    Laboratories in the U.S. portion of the International Space Station are running at full power again after a pair of spacewalks to repair a partially failed cooling system. ...

      12:49 PM, Dec. 26, 2013

  17. How did gold form on Earth? Thank collision of exotic stars

    The gold glinting on your wedding band was likely born in a cataclysmic merger of two exceedingly exotic stars, astronomers report Wednesday....

      4:58 PM, Jul. 17, 2013

  18. Martian moon has unexplained grooves on its surface

    A new 3D video taken by Mars Express shows the weird stripes the surface of Phobos has. Scientists cannot yet explain how those lines formed on the surface but there are a couple theories. Geraldine Cols Azocar (@geraldinecolsa) explains us what they are....

      1:12 PM, Dec. 24, 2013


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