Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket Blue Origin has announced the crew flying on its NS-25. Former US Air Force Captain Ed Dwight is among the six aiming to travel aboard the reusable rocket past the Kármá…
Lees meerAt $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive NASA has selected three companies to develop designs for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) to transport astronauts around the Moon.…
Lees meer3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time' Construction of the LSST Camera, destined for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has been completed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley.…
Lees meerWhat's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually NASA, which isn't known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated Universal Time (UT…
Lees meerWhat's a few milliseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually NASA, which isn't known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated Universal Time (UT…
Lees meerWhat's a few milliseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually NASA, which isn't known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated Universal Time (UT…
Lees meerChinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right Alibaba's Taobao e-commerce platform is exploring one-hour delivery by – wait for it – rocket.…
Lees meerBrief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery Japan's Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) late last week revealed that its Moon lander had – somewhat unexpectedly – mostly survived a second lunar night and was briefly well enough to send home …
Lees meerNovel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue – potentially mitigating, but not …
Lees meerHardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.…
Lees meerOh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills Updated Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.…
Lees meerOh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.…
Lees meerThis is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has challenged SpaceX's severance agreements, alleging the paperwork unlawfully limits what staff can say and do once they leave the roc…
Lees meerThis is why Big Biz is trying to dismantle America's crucial regulators The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has challenged SpaceX's severance agreements, alleging the paperwork unlawfully limits what staff can say and do once they leave the…
Lees meerThis is why Big Biz is trying to dismantle America's crucial regulators The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has challenged SpaceX's severance agreements, alleging the paperwork unlawfully limits what staff can say and do once they leave the…
Lees meerThis is why Big Biz is trying to dismantle America's crucial regulators The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has challenged SpaceX's severance agreements, alleging the paperwork unlawfully limits what staff can say and do once they leave the…
Lees meerWhile excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done Neuralink's first human patient is now a public figure, with the company publishing a video yesterday showing him playing chess on a laptop and talk…
Lees meerUm. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite? All aboard the space train – DARPA has commissioned defense contractor Northrop Grumman to figure out what would be necessary for a railroad network on the Moon.…
Lees meerWarm water and a scraper not an option when you're 1.5 million kilometers from home Less than 12 months into its six-year survey mission, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid telescope is experiencing optical issues that require European teams t…
Lees meerAwards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space The European Space Agency has committed €76.6 million ($83 million) toward the development of Genesis – a flying observatory that will provide positioning services accurate to a single millim…
Lees meerVeteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers Engineers are hopeful the veteran spacecraft Voyager 1 has turned a corner after spending the past three months spouting gibberish at controllers.…
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