Observers' report: SpaceX Starship and electrophonic sounds
People in Puerto Rico reported hearing rumbling sounds from the SpaceX Starship as it swept above them during a November 19, 2024, test launch.| EarthSky
People in Puerto Rico reported hearing rumbling sounds from the SpaceX Starship as it swept above them during a November 19, 2024, test launch.| EarthSky
Watch a Chinese rocket disintegrate over the Caribbean in multiple angles from meteor cameras in Puerto Rico. Video via Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe.| EarthSky
Reflect Orbital promises sunlight on demand. What exactly does that mean and how would it affect astronomy? Image via Marys_fotos/ Pixabay.We live in uncertain times. But things are always so much more peaceful, looking up. Please help EarthSky keep going!| EarthSky
Crew-11 launched toward the space station on August 1, 2025. Image via Greg Diesel Walck.Update: The Crew-11 mission launched today just before 12 p.m. EDT in Florida.| EarthSky
The Japanese lunar exploration company ispace attempted to land on the moon today, June 5, 2025. Watch a replay of the livestream in the player above. The livestream ended with the company still trying to communicate with the lander. It’s not looking good.| EarthSky
Watch Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. It has an all-female crew. The launch window will open at 8:30 a.m. CDT on Monday, April 14.| EarthSky
The lunar lander Athena captured this selfie as it orbited the moon on March 3, 2025. Earth is the small world in the distance. Athena landed on the moon on March 6, 2025. Unfortunately, like the Intuitive Machines’ mission before it, it appears to be on its side. Image via Intuitive Machines (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).Athena landed on the moon, but on its side| EarthSky
https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/03/Screen-Recording-2025-03-06-160332.mp4| EarthSky
NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center is the largest single-story building in the world. Here’s a peek inside NASA’s VAB showing the solid rocket boosters that will lift the Artemis 2 mission into space. The Artemis missions seek to return astronauts to the moon. Image via Greg Diesel Walck.An exclusive peek inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building| EarthSky
Watch sunset on the moon as the Blue Ghost mission comes to a close. Here, we see a final sequence as the sun sets below the moon’s surface. The white dot in the distance is Venus, and the bright object that looks like a second sun is Earth with sunlight shining off it. Video via Firefly Aerospace.| EarthSky
SpaceX’s Starship attempted a 2nd launch on November 18, 2023. It ended in the explosion of the booster and later, of the Starship itself. Image via Jankiel Carranza/ JCJ Photos from Dorado, Puerto Rico. Used with permission.Starship met a fiery end near Puerto Rico| EarthSky
RIP booster ? pic.twitter.com/jmlt1VoKb8| EarthSky
After the successful Artemis 1 uncrewed flight around the moon in 2022, Artemis 2 is the next step in humanity’s journey from the moon to Mars. This mission will be the Artemis program’s first crewed mission, with 4 astronauts flying around the moon in 10 days. This flight will confirm the systems and hardware necessary for human deep space travel. Artemis 2 is scheduled for no later than April 2026. NASA provided an Artemis 2 mission update on September 23, 2025. Watch it again above.| EarthSky
Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew splash down off the coast of Florida, completing the @PolarisProgram's first human spaceflight mission pic.twitter.com/Sobt66zxnL| EarthSky
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft – which had been docked at the International Space Station all summer, after leaving 2 astronauts stranded there – returned uncrewed to Earth last night. NASA reported its landing at 10:01 p.m. MDT on September 6 (4:01 UTC on September 7), at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Meanwhile, the astronauts are still at the ISS … waiting to come home. Image via NASA.| EarthSky
The X-37B spaceplane mission 7 launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, designated USSF-52, on Thursday night, December 28, 2023. Greg Diesel-Walck captured this image at the launch site and said: “The dew tonight was insane”.The U.S. Space Force’s robot spaceplane – the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle – lifted off on its seventh mission Thursday night, December 28, 2023, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It rode to its highest orbit yet aboard a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket,...| EarthSky
