Test flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket hits unfortunate disintegration on return to Earth, facing re-entry challenges for space exploration.
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Intuitive Machines' private robot spacecraft, Odysseus, attempts the first U.S. lunar touchdown in over 50 years.
Bridgit Mendler is a new ground station startup’s CEO, planning to provide a more democratic option for satellite data transmission.
NASA is actively engaged in a new endeavor to deploy a compact nuclear reactor on the moon, a key component of its Artemis program.
A woman 99.9% of us have never heard of, has just died. Yet what we owe her is incalculable. You see, NASA Shuttle Mission Specialist Mary Cleave didn’t use her time in orbit staring at the vast and hypnotic majesty of space. She focused her attention on the mess below her. Namely the human-triggered deterioration […]
The Pentagon would not comment on any statement made. “2018 saw SpaceX secure the $130 million launch contract.”
First pair of prototype satellites for the planned Amazon Kuiper internet network were launched into space on Friday from Florida.
A Bit of Space Junk, Probably Sorry to ruin either a romantic evening or a school lesson in astronomy, but whenever you gaze in wonder up at the stars, you’re also looking at thousands of tonnes of trash, just sort of hanging there about a thousand kilometres high. There are over 10,000 tonnes of rubbish […]
As part of the Caltech solar energy project, an SBSP has successfully beamed solar energy collected from space down to Earth.
Russia's Luna-25, its first moonshot in nearly half a century has failed after the spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the moon.