TESS was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX on 18 April. The satellite will survey the whole sky to look for exoplanets that transit their stars.
World space news and astronomy outreach through (Milky Way) Kiwi eyes.
Tag: SpaceX
NASA and the Space Launch System and Mars, eventually
NASA’s plans to get to Mars are a bit slower than Elon Musk’s. They have many more steps and have plans to achieve some quite impressive things such as space station orbiting the Moon and capturing an asteroid.
Big Fat Rocket, Big Friendly Rocket, Big Falcon Rocket, Big ###### Rocket
SpaceX is well advanced in it’s plans to build a huge rocket to take humans to Mars and they plan to do this by 2024. This article has a closer look at the Big Falcon Rocket to see what’s so special about it.
Who’s launching what in January?
The launch schedule for January, hopefully this will be more successful than last month where a few launches were postponed until this month for various reasons.
Rocketing to Mars
2018 is shaping up to be a hot year when it comes to the launch systems to be developed to get humans to Mars.
