Related: NASA's ICON Satellite Mission in Pictures The $252 million probe is going right into the thick of the ionosphere, heading for a circular orbit 357 miles (575 kilometers) above Earth's ...

Although silent, the ICON spacecraft is still intact. NASA used the Department of Defense’s Space Surveillance Network to confirm that ICON is still out there in one piece, according to the ...

After successfully launching Thursday night, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit for a first-of-its-kind mission to study a region of space where changes can ...

NASA has launched a new spacecraft, the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), for exploring the border between our planet's atmosphere and space. The ICON spacecraft was carried aboard a ...

This probe orbits lower than many satellites because it ... NASA is talking a lot about long-term missions like new trips to the moon ... (ICON) spacecraft is finally in orbit (Opens in a new ...

NASA details the importance of the ionosphere to humans in its video below, where it presents a render of ICON deploying in the boundary. NASA explains that its spacecraft will track "airglow," a ...

NASA hopes that the long-delayed launch of a space weather mission called ICON will finally occur tonight (Oct. 9) — but terrestrial weather concerns may scrub the flight. The mission, formally ...

Update: Northrop Grumman successfully air-launches its Pegasus XL rocket at 10 p.m. Thursday night, sending NASA's ICON spacecraft to orbit. Update: Weather delays Pegasus launch. Next attempt set ...

NASA’s ICON mission studied the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere. ICON provided critical insights into interplay between space weather and Earth’s weather. The ...

Update: Northrop Grumman successfully air-launches its Pegasus XL rocket at 10 p.m. Thursday night, sending NASA's ICON spacecraft to orbit. Update: Weather delays Pegasus launch.

On Nov. 25, 2022, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) team lost contact with the spacecraft. The ICON spacecraft is equipped with a built-in onboard command loss timer that will power ...