Watch SpaceX Launch NASA's Pandora Exoplanet-Studying Satellite on Jan. 11

Watch SpaceX launch NASA's Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on Jan. 11

SpaceX will launch NASA's Pandora exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch the action live.

Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets & Beyond

Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets & Beyond | NASA GoddardThe Pandora spacecraft with an exoplanet and two stars in the background. This is an artist’s concept of NASA’s Pandora mission. Pandora will help scientists untangle signals from exoplanet atmospheres—worlds beyond our solar system—and their stars.Pandora spacecraft, fully integrated, with blue-lit backgroundThis view of the fully integrated Pandora spacecraft was taken Ma…

NASA’s Pandora mission set to launch on Jan 11 to study alien planet atmospheres

New Delhi: NASA is preparing to launch a powerful new space telescope designed to study alien worlds far beyond our solar system. The mission, called Pandora, will lift off on January 11 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California. Its goal is simple but ambitious: to figure out what exoplanet atmospheres are really made of and whether some of them could support life. Pandora will not travel alone. Two small CubeSats, BlackCAT and SPARCS, wi…

NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond - NASA Science

6 min read NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along for the ride are two shoebox-sized satellites called BlackCAT (Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope) and SPARCS (Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat), as NASA innovates with ambitious science missi…