Space – Page 47 of 93

Aug 30, 2018, 2:07 PM

Blue Origin scores big in NASA’s latest batch of flight opportunities for space tech

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 15 promising space technologies for testing on suborbital flights, and almost half of them… Read More

Aug 30, 2018, 8:58 AM

Don’t panic: Space station crew works to patch up tiny air leak in docked Soyuz craft

The International Space Station’s flight controllers detected a minute pressure leak overnight, but a temporary fix was made with epoxy… Read More

Aug 29, 2018, 10:02 AM

World View exec Taber MacCallum will chair Commercial Spaceflight Federation

News Brief: The Commercial Spaceflight Federation says Taber MacCallum, co-founder and chief technology officer of Arizona-based World View Enterprises, will… Read More

Aug 28, 2018, 4:33 PM

NASA’s New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spot their deep-space targets

The next few months are due to bring two amazing interplanetary encounters: a rendezvous with an asteroid and a flyby… Read More

Aug 27, 2018, 10:49 AM

Godspeed, Robb Kulin: For first time since Apollo, astronaut candidate leaves training

News Brief: NASA says Alaskan astronaut candidate Robb Kulin is leaving his training program at the end of this month,… Read More

Aug 23, 2018, 2:22 PM

VP Mike Pence revs up NASA schedule for putting astronauts on station in lunar orbit

During a pep talk to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, Vice President Mike Pence today highlighted what he saw… Read More

Aug 21, 2018, 2:58 PM

Orrery.ai aims to turn streams of data into secret weapon for strategic investment

Satellites, sensors, social media and purchasing data provide terabytes’ worth of information about how the global economy is working — and… Read More

Aug 21, 2018, 10:55 AM

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

Newly published research lays out a map that traces water ice deposits at the poles of the moon — and points… Read More

Aug 21, 2018, 4:00 AM

With Spaceflight’s help, LeoStella moves ahead with Seattle-area satellite factory

TUKWILA, Wash. — Today it’s an empty office building in a business park south of Seattle, not far from a Mexican restaurant… Read More

Aug 20, 2018, 8:49 PM

Planetary Resources auction put on hold

News Brief: This month’s scheduled sale of hundreds of items from Planetary Resources’ headquarters in Redmond, Wash., has been postponed,… Read More

Aug 20, 2018, 6:47 PM

Spaceport Colorado wins FAA license

News Brief: Colorado’s Front Range Airport is getting a new name — the Colorado Air and Space Port — thanks to… Read More

Aug 20, 2018, 9:36 AM

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch unveils plans for new family of rockets (and a space plane)

Stratolaunch, the space venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, today provided the first details about a new… Read More

Aug 18, 2018, 10:56 AM

From Stratolaunch to startup: Chuck Beames raises his sights to York satellites

Two years ago, Chuck Beames presided over Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s effort to build the biggest airplane in the world.… Read More

Aug 16, 2018, 6:24 PM

CNN survey suggests support for Space Force doesn’t match Star Wars appeal

News Brief: A CNN survey suggests most Americans don’t back the Trump administration’s plans to create a new military branch… Read More

Aug 16, 2018, 10:56 AM

Boeing expands satellite portfolio with acquisition of Millennium Space Systems

Boeing says it’ll expand its already-strong satellite portfolio with the acquisition of Millennium Space Systems, a California-based venture that specializes… Read More

Aug 15, 2018, 5:50 PM

Russians toss satellites and install animal tracking system in marathon spacewalk

News Brief: Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev tossed four small research satellites into orbit and installed an animal-tracking… Read More

Aug 14, 2018, 8:01 PM

Engine test for NASA’s heavy-lift SLS rocket cuts off early, but achieves goals

News Brief: NASA put a developmental model of the RS-25 engine for its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket through a… Read More

Aug 12, 2018, 9:30 PM

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch venture rolls out world’s biggest airplane for weekend tests

Stratolaunch, the launch venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, took the world’s biggest airplane out of its hangar this… Read More

Aug 12, 2018, 12:53 AM

Fastest, closest, hottest: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off to ‘touch the sun’

NASA today sent a super-shielded spacecraft known as the Parker Solar Probe on a mission that will take it closer… Read More

Aug 10, 2018, 4:04 PM

Blue Origin shows off BE-3U upper-stage rocket engine as its many efforts ramp up

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is sharing a short video clip featuring the lesser-known… Read More

Aug 10, 2018, 12:36 PM

The stars align for a near-perfect Perseid meteor shower: Here’s how to catch it

The outlook for this year’s Perseid meteor shower is checking all the boxes. Up to a meteor a minute? Check.… Read More

Aug 9, 2018, 1:48 PM

VP Mike Pence details plan to create Space Force (sans starship troopers) by 2020

The Trump administration is taking immediate steps to raise the profile of the Defense Department’s space operations, and asking Congress… Read More

Aug 8, 2018, 11:48 PM

NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight

Thirteen companies, including Boeing and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be doing studies for NASA on… Read More

Aug 8, 2018, 3:28 PM

Efforts to develop small-scale rockets are soaring, but only a few get off the ground

News Brief: The latest “State of the Industry” report for small orbital-class launch vehicles tracks 101 reported efforts to create… Read More

Aug 8, 2018, 12:20 PM

Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards

NASA is awarding $44 million to six commercial partners to support “tipping-point” technologies that range from lunar landing capabilities to… Read More

Aug 7, 2018, 4:53 PM

Financially strapped Planetary Resources gets set to auction off equipment at HQ

In a fresh sign of the financial straits facing Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company will be auctioning off hundreds… Read More

Aug 6, 2018, 10:51 PM

SpaceX launches Indonesian satellite and kicks off new round for rocket reusability

SpaceX sent Indonesia’s Merah Putih telecommunications satellite into orbit tonight, marking the first reuse of its new-generation Falcon 9 Block… Read More

Aug 6, 2018, 4:10 PM

‘Smallsats are big’: NASA official details initiatives to boost tiny science satellites

LOGAN, Utah — NASA is already deep into small-satellite science, but today the space agency’s associate administrator for science signaled that… Read More

Aug 6, 2018, 11:57 AM

Aerospace Corp. lays out ‘Launch Unit’ standard for medium small satellites

LOGAN, Utah — Tiny satellites have their own 4-inch CubeSat standard size, and bigger satellites have a size standard as well.… Read More

Aug 6, 2018, 5:00 AM

Spaceflight’s SmallSat Express rounds up more than 70 satellites for SpaceX launch

LOGAN, Utah — Seattle-based Spaceflight is confirming that it has more than 70 satellites from 18 countries signed up for launch… Read More