Space – Page 43 of 93

Nov 19, 2018, 10:05 PM

Goodbye, BFR … hello, Starship: Elon Musk gives a classic name to his Mars spaceship

First it was the Mars Colonial Transporter, or MCT … then it was the Interplanetary Transport System, or ITS …… Read More

Nov 19, 2018, 10:59 AM

NASA picks ancient Martian river delta at Jezero Crater as landing site for 2020 rover

One week before the next Mars mission is due to land, NASA has chosen the landing site for its next next… Read More

Nov 19, 2018, 8:38 AM

Virgin Orbit jet aces its first captive-carry flight with LauncherOne rocket attached

Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 jet, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, has made its first test flight with a LauncherOne rocket tucked… Read More

Nov 17, 2018, 1:55 AM

Antares rocket launches Cygnus cargo ship, doubling up space station deliveries

Two uncrewed cargo craft are now en route to the International Space Station, thanks to the launch of a Northrop… Read More

Nov 16, 2018, 2:01 PM

44 years after its first message to aliens, Arecibo Observatory calls for follow-up

The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years… Read More

Nov 15, 2018, 5:22 PM

Spaceflight Industries goes through financial restructuring as key launch nears

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries laid out the status of a debt restructuring plan this week in advance of its most ambitious… Read More

Nov 15, 2018, 4:24 PM

Rocket Lab reports $140M in fresh funding, cementing space unicorn status

Fresh on the heels of a successful satellite launch, Rocket Lab today announced that it has received $140 million in… Read More

Nov 15, 2018, 1:18 PM

SpaceX launches Qatar’s Es’hail-2 telecom satellite, and then lands Falcon 9 booster

SpaceX sent the Es’hail-2 telecommunications satellite into orbit today, then brought the Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster back down for… Read More

Nov 15, 2018, 10:57 AM

FCC OKs SpaceX’s plan for 7,500 satellites in very low Earth orbit (and its rivals’ plans)

The Federal Communications Commission today gave the go-ahead for SpaceX to operate a constellation of more than 7,500 broadband access… Read More

Nov 14, 2018, 1:27 PM

Scientists report a super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, a mere 6 light-years away

The astronomical team that found the nearest exoplanet at Proxima Centauri has done it again with the reported detection of… Read More

Nov 13, 2018, 7:03 PM

Virgin Orbit puts flying launch pad through speedy taxi test with a rocket in its pocket

British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit space venture notched another milestone over the Veterans Day weekend: the first high-speed taxi… Read More

Nov 13, 2018, 2:59 PM

How Blue Origin space venture’s HQ2, HQ3 and HQ4 blazed a trail for Amazon HQ plan

The process that Amazon went through to choose New York, Northern Virginia and Nashville as key sites for expansion isn’t… Read More

Nov 12, 2018, 2:32 PM

Elon Musk and Mars take the spotlight in National Geographic TV doubleheader

Science fiction blends with fact in tonight’s double dose of Mars from National Geographic’s TV channel. Truth to tell, there’s… Read More

Nov 10, 2018, 8:58 PM

Rocket Lab’s low-cost Electron launcher puts satellites in orbit from New Zealand

Rocket Lab executed its second orbital mission today, sending six small satellites and an experimental drag sail into orbit from… Read More

Nov 8, 2018, 6:13 PM

SpaceX sets its sights on a lower orbit for Starlink broadband network’s first satellites

SpaceX wants to lower the bar for its first batch of Starlink broadband satellites, with the aim of beginning deployment… Read More

Nov 8, 2018, 10:23 AM

Russians reboot space station computer

A balky computer system is working again on the International Space Station, thanks to a reboot, the Russian space agency… Read More

Nov 7, 2018, 7:36 PM

Former Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson leaves Jeff Bezos’ space venture

Rob Meyerson, who was the president of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture until this year, says he’s… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 6:32 PM

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

Two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and sending back… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 2:58 PM

‘Oumuamua, oh my! Was interstellar object actually an alien solar sail? Not so fast

‘Oumuamua is long gone from the inner solar system, but the mystery surrounding the interstellar interloper has been rekindled, thanks… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 1:03 PM

Russia says one of its space station computers failed but two others are A-OK

One of the three computers on the Russian side of the International Space Station has crashed, but orbital operations are… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 10:59 AM

Stratolaunch completes milestone preburner test firing for PGA rocket engine

Stratolaunch Systems, the space venture founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it has successfully completed the first hot-fire test… Read More

Nov 5, 2018, 7:47 PM

Tethers Unlimited’s 3-D printer and recycler is ready for delivery to space station

There’s nothing new about having a 3-D printer in space, but how about a 3-D printer that also recycles plastic… Read More

Nov 4, 2018, 2:26 PM

How the Air and Space Museum signed up for a SpaceShipOne tribute to Paul Allen

It wasn’t just Seattle’s skyline that turned blue on Saturday night: Back east in the nation’s capital, the Smithsonian Institution’s… Read More

Nov 3, 2018, 10:58 AM

Moon Direct: Mars maverick lays out his low-cost plan to set up lunar bases

For decades, rocket scientist Robert Zubrin has been a voice crying in the Martian wilderness. But now the president of… Read More

Nov 2, 2018, 9:50 AM

In Recode Q&A, Elon Musk talks up ‘Blade Runner’ truck, Space Force and Jeff Bezos

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is really psyched about the electric pickup truck he’s got on… Read More

Nov 1, 2018, 10:12 PM

Russians trace Soyuz rocket failure to a bent sensor; next crew to launch Dec. 3

Russian investigators say last month’s launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying two spacefliers to the International Space Station went awry… Read More

Nov 1, 2018, 4:49 PM

NASA’s Dawn probe falls silent, ending mission to mysterious dwarf planet Ceres

Dawn is dead, but Dawn is not gone: Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact… Read More

Oct 31, 2018, 2:26 PM

SpaceX reorganizes Starlink satellite operation, reportedly with high-level firings

SpaceX says it has reorganized its satellite development operation in Redmond, Wash., to accelerate design and testing of the elements… Read More

Oct 31, 2018, 9:26 AM

Why in the universe is a blockchain company buying the assets of a formerly high-flying asteroid miner?

After months of financial uncertainty, the Planetary Resources asteroid-mining venture says its assets have been purchased by the Brooklyn-based ConsenSys… Read More

Oct 30, 2018, 3:15 PM

Farewell, Kepler: NASA’s planet-hunting probe runs out of gas, but mission goes on

NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope now belongs to the ages, with its fuel completely spent and its instruments shut down — but… Read More