Space – Page 39 of 93

Mar 8, 2019, 7:00 AM

SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship splashes down at end of crucial space station trip

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean today, ending a six-day uncrewed test run preparing the way… Read More

Mar 5, 2019, 8:21 PM

Watch Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks from an asteroid

If there was ever any doubt that Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft was able to get access to samples from an… Read More

Mar 5, 2019, 7:37 PM

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

An Israeli lunar lander gets photobombed by Earth in a selfie released today by SpaceIL’s Beresheet mission team. The selfie… Read More

Mar 5, 2019, 10:57 AM

OK Go music group teams up with Blue Origin on zero-G space art contest for kids

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is joining forces with the music-video masters at OK Go to give… Read More

Mar 3, 2019, 1:01 PM

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship hooks itself up to space station for first time

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship docked with the International Space Station for the first time today, marking a successful uncrewed rehearsal… Read More

Mar 2, 2019, 1:56 AM

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship makes maiden flight with robo-rider named Ripley

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon was sent into space atop a Falcon 9 rocket tonight, beginning a crucial test of a spaceship… Read More

Mar 1, 2019, 5:54 PM

LeoStella satellite venture hands over CEO reins to aerospace executive Mike Hettich

TUKWILA, Wash. — Mike Hettich has finally completed his transition from chief learning officer to chief executive officer at LeoStella, the… Read More

Feb 28, 2019, 6:00 AM

Former Insitu CEO makes the leap over to World View stratospheric balloon venture

For three and a half years, Ryan Hartman served as president and CEO of Insitu — the Boeing subsidiary headquartered in… Read More

Feb 23, 2019, 6:00 AM

UW researchers and Florida middle school students form unusual bond over cosmic kidney stones

Eight students from a low-income sugarcane town in South Florida spent months on a robotics project tackling kidney stones in… Read More

Feb 22, 2019, 7:47 PM

Firefly Aerospace gets a Florida launch site

Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based launch venture that was lifted out of bankruptcy, says it’s struck a deal with Space Florida… Read More

Feb 22, 2019, 6:08 PM

NASA, SpaceX and a test dummy are ready for Dragon 2’s first trip to space station

NASA gave the all-clear today for the first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station… Read More

Feb 22, 2019, 2:23 PM

Ultimate Ultima: New Horizons team shares sharpest view of space snowman

The scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have released the sharpest possible view of the mission’s latest target, a smooshed-in… Read More

Feb 22, 2019, 10:08 AM

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane carries three people for first time

Virgin Galactic followed up on last December’s first SpaceShipTwo flight past the 50-mile space milestone by sending up its first… Read More

Feb 21, 2019, 9:45 PM

Japan’s ispace moon mission brings in new partners — and makes deal for battery test

The Japanese moon venture known as ispace says it has recruited new corporate partners and struck a deal to put… Read More

Feb 21, 2019, 6:58 PM

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the Israeli-made Beresheet lunar lander on the first leg of its journey to the… Read More

Feb 21, 2019, 5:40 PM

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 team says spacecraft touches down on asteroid to grab sample

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft successfully touched down today on asteroid Ryugu, more than 200 million miles from Earth, during an… Read More

Feb 19, 2019, 7:43 PM

Russians say they have a deal with Space Adventures to put tourists in orbit by 2021

Russia’s space agency says it’s getting ready to resume sending private passengers to the International Space Station and back, a… Read More

Feb 19, 2019, 5:34 PM

President Trump signs directive to create new Space Force under the Air Force’s wing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that lays out further steps in the creation of… Read More

Feb 18, 2019, 10:59 AM

Artificial intelligence — and a few jokes — will help keep future Mars crews sane

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the first human explorers head for Mars, they’re likely to have a non-human judging their performance… Read More

Feb 18, 2019, 9:21 AM

Seattle-area Earth observation satellite factory LeoStella is open for business

When you hear the words “satellite factory,” LeoStella‘s operations in a nondescript office park south of Seattle probably isn’t the image… Read More

Feb 15, 2019, 4:33 PM

After twin-astronaut tests, NASA readies new wave of studies on space health risks

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Almost three years after NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned from spending nearly a year in orbit, researchers are… Read More

Feb 14, 2019, 3:33 PM

NASA lays out its commercial roadmap for putting astronauts on the moon in 2028

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA’s leaders put out their pitch today for commercial ventures to build the hardware needed to put American… Read More

Feb 13, 2019, 6:56 PM

NASA’s deputy chief echoes JFK in a pitch for commercial space ventures

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA’s No. 2 official channeled President John F. Kennedy today in a pitch designed to please space industry… Read More

Feb 13, 2019, 1:53 PM

Opportunity on Mars, 2004-2019: NASA sings requiem to a rover — and looks ahead

After months of silence from Mars, NASA finally read the rites over its Opportunity rover, hailing the six-wheeled machine as… Read More

Feb 12, 2019, 9:20 PM

DARPA is zeroing in on Launch Challenge

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration are winnowing down 18 pre-qualified teams… Read More

Feb 11, 2019, 3:08 PM

FAA certificate offers new details on Stratolaunch’s plans for test flights of world’s largest aircraft

The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the world’s largest airplane for takeoff — but it’s not yet clear exactly when… Read More

Feb 8, 2019, 5:18 PM

SpaceX seeks FCC approval for up to 1M Starlink satellite earth stations

SpaceX has opened a new window into its ambitious plans for a global satellite broadband data network, thanks to an earth-station… Read More

Feb 8, 2019, 10:05 AM

Astronauts install Tethers Unlimited’s 3-D printer plus recycler on space station

NASA astronauts on the International Space Station have installed the first integrated 3-D printer and plastic recycler to go into… Read More

Feb 7, 2019, 4:49 PM

Rapid-response telescope team shares greatest hits from ZTF sky scanner

A state-of-the-art astronomical camera system in California known as the Zwicky Transient Facility is rolling out an early batch of… Read More

Feb 7, 2019, 2:53 PM

Virgin Galactic’s pilots get first commercial astronaut wings awarded in 15 years

Two Virgin Galactic test pilots are now wearing the first commercial astronaut wings to be awarded since SpaceShipOne’s historic spaceflights… Read More