Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email The SpaceNews Editorial and Winners Panel at the 2023 SpaceNews Icon Awards on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, at the InterContinental ...

ICON, launched in October 2019, is tasked with observing the way terrestrial weather interacts with space weather in Earth’s ionosphere. It does so (or at least it did so) from an orbital ...

A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket streaks toward space carrying NASA's Ionosphere Connection Explorer satellite, or ICON, on Oct. 10, 2019.

NASA's ICON satellite, well into an extended mission in space, fell silent on Nov. 25 and has not responded to calls from home.