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Photo courtesy of Virgin Orbit/Greg Robinson ExoCube 2 is among 10 small satellites flying aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket –A Cal Poly San Luis Obispo CubeSat will ride on Wednesday Jan. 13 aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket on its second attempt to reach space. The rocket includes nine other NASA-sponsored small satellites on the space agency’s next Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission. This is the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit’s rocket that will be carried aloft under the wing of a modified Boeing 747 to an altitude of 35,000 feet, released a...

Early 2021: India launches its Chandrayaan-3 rover to the moon ISRO chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan displays a model of the Chanrayaan-2 orbiter and rover on August 20, 2019. AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to re-attempt a moon landing in 2021. During its first mission of this kind, in September 2019, the Chandrayaan-2 lander lost communications on descent and crashed into the lunar surface.  But that mission's orbiter is still circling the moon and seems to be in good health. If all goes ...

Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year mmcfalljohnsen@businessinsider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie Neilson) © Provided by Business Insider The year 2021 will bring an exciting series of Mars landings, rocket launches, astronaut flights, and more. NASA; JPL-Caltech; Boeing; SpaceX In 2020, SpaceX became the first private company to launch humans into orbit, Japan brought asteroid samples to Earth, and China's landed a spacecraft on the moon. But 2021 is set to be an even more ambitious...

By Danielle Sempsrott  NASA’s Kennedy Space Center MOJAVE, Calif. — Ten NASA-sponsored CubeSats are preparing to fly on the agency’s next Educational Launch of Nanosatellites  (ELaNa) mission, making this the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket. With the small satellites safely secured inside the payload fairing, and the fairing mated to the rocket, Virgin Orbit is gearing up for ELaNa 20, the Launch Demo 2 flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. “This initiative actually enables the market for future CubeSats or future missions needing a r...

Universities prepare to launch experiments with NASA, Virgin Orbit By (0) Technicians prepare small satellites for launch  at Virgin Orbit's processing facility in Mojave, Calif. Photo courtesy of Virgin Orbit Technicians prepare a small satellite, MiTEE, for launch in California after it was built and shipped by the University of Michigan. Photo courtesy of Virgin Orbit Quartz marbles and smaller material are packed inside the Q-PACE small satellite for an experiment in microgravity. Photo courtesy of University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Experiments on a NASA educ...