SpaceX has launched the Nova-C (IM-1) mission for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration aboard Falcon 9 B1060-18 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Onboard this mission was Intuitive Machines's first Nova-C class lunar lander named Odysseus, that will fly six payloads for NASA and several others for commercial companies to Malapert A crater near the Moon's South Pole. This mission was the first time since 1972 that LC-39A has supported a mission h

In 2018, three satellites viewing a nova outburst captured the first direct evidence that most of the explosion’s visible light arose from shock waves — abrupt changes of pressure and temperature formed in the explosion debris. A nova is a sudden, short-lived brightening of an otherwise inconspicuous star. It occurs when a stream of hydrogen from a companion star flows onto the surface of a white dwarf, a compact stellar cinder not much larger than Earth. NASA’s Fermi and NuSTAR space telescopes