Month: October 2019

Space UpClose News Website Revamped and Relaunched

Hello Space fans throughout the Galaxy, Today I’m announcing the relaunch of Space UpClose main news website here at Spaceupclose.com as my primary outlet for covering the latest news about space. The website has been completely revamped and will report daily news and analysis related to both short and long term impact. Spaceupclose.com forthwith will now immediately take over the

NASA ICON Probe Launches to Study Earth’s Dynamic Ionospheric Interface with Space After Long Delay

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER & CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL –NASA’s newest science mission named ICON launched at last tonight, Oct. 10, to begin the most detailed study ever of Earth’s ionosphere – the tenuous upper atmospheric layer at the interface of the dynamic boundary where Earth’s weather meets space weather – via an air-drop launch of the Northrop Grumman

Poor Weather Postpones Pegasus Launch of NASA ICON Science Probe to Oct. 10: Watch Live

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER & CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – After poor Space Coast weather postponed the launch of NASA’s new science mission to study the Earth’s ionosphere – the tenuous upper atmospheric layer at the ‘frontier of space’ forming the dynamic boundary where Earth’s weather meets space weather – known as ICON by 24 hours, the air-drop launch of the Northrop Grumman

Up Close with NASA ICON – Pegasus Rocket Launch Planned Oct. 9 with Poor Weather Outlook after 1 Year Delay: Photos

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER & CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – NASA’s new science mission to study the Earth’s ionosphere – the tenuous upper atmospheric layer at the ‘frontier of space’ forming the dynamic boundary where Earth’s weather meets space weather – known as ICON, is tentatively slated to launch as early as this Wednesday evening, Oct. 9 from Florida – – as poor weather threatens

NASA Works to Save Mars InSight Lander’s Stuck Heat Probe

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL- NASA engineers are hard at work trying to save the stuck heat probe on the agency’s InSight lander – which is on a mission to explore the deep interior of Mars since successfully soft landing last November.  This past weekend the team commanded InSight to position its robotic arm to assist the spacecraft’s self-hammering heat probe. Known as “the mole,” the probe

Key SpaceX Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test Hardware Arrives KSC

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  The key spaceflight test  hardware required for SpaceX’s next step to eventually launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program – namely for the Crew Dragon In-Flight abort test – has arrived at last at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The human-rated SpaceX Crew Dragon test vehicle and

Multinational Soyuz Crew Returns Safely to Earth after Departing ISS

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  A multinational crew from the US, Russia and the UAE returned safely to Earth this morning, Thursday, Oct. 3, touching down safely in their Russian Soyuz capsule in the steppes of Kazakhstan just hours after a middle-of-the-night departure from the International Space Station (ISS)  – which briefly hosted 9 humans from 4 countries for the past week. NASA astronaut Nick