Space – Page 47 of 93

Sep 13, 2018, 10:57 AM

NASA and Russian officials knock down a conspiracy theory on space station leak

NASA and Russia’s space agency issued a joint statement today aimed at quashing viral claims that someone on the International… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 2:32 PM

Blue Origin’s schedule for putting people on space trips reportedly slips to 2019

News Brief: Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith today signaled that the Kent, Wash.-based space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 10:52 AM

Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight’s first move beyond low Earth orbit

SpaceIL’s lunar lander is go for launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that’s due to… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 6:30 PM

Artificial intelligence helps SETI sleuths find more radio bursts from mystery source

Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a multimillion-dollar campaign to seek out signals from alien civilizations, still don’t know exactly what’s causing… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 3:08 PM

Juno orbiter’s view of a beautiful brownish spot on Jupiter sparks a bit of potty humor

Jupiter’s titanic storms have spawned their share of memorable cloud features, including the Great Red Spot, Oval BA (a.k.a. Red… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 10:51 AM

Boeing leads $10 million funding round for BridgeSat laser communications venture

Boeing HorizonX Ventures is leading a $10 million investment round to boost BridgeSat, a Denver-based satellite communications company that aims… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 6:31 AM

The multibillion-dollar question: What in the world (or universe) will Jeff Bezos do with his riches?

Jeff Bezos transformed the modern economy, using disruptive thinking to reshape how people buy products and read books, and how… Read More

Sep 9, 2018, 10:55 PM

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Telstar 18V satellite into orbit; booster lands at sea

SpaceX launched its second heavyweight Telstar telecommunications satellite from Florida tonight, and brought the Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster down… Read More

Sep 6, 2018, 7:38 PM

ANA Holdings partners with Japan’s space agency on ‘Avatar X’ telepresence program

Telepresence robots on the moon and Mars? That’s the vision laid out for the partnership between ANA Holdings, the parent… Read More

Sep 6, 2018, 6:27 PM

Rocket envy? Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceship launches a double entendre

It’s hard to top the risque rocket scene in “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” but Blue Origin’s New… Read More

Sep 5, 2018, 10:38 PM

51 years after discovering pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3M Breakthrough Prize

British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell missed out on a share of the Nobel Prize for her part in the discovery… Read More

Sep 5, 2018, 5:27 PM

Blue Origin and other aerospace ventures offer ‘Brookie’ fellowships for women

News Brief: The online application window has just opened for the Brooke Owens Fellowship program, which offers paid internships for… Read More

Sep 5, 2018, 2:56 PM

Experts urge NASA to build huge new space telescope to look at alien Earths

NASA should add a large, technologically advanced space telescope to its lineup to capture direct images of Earthlike planets beyond… Read More

Sep 4, 2018, 10:18 AM

Russian space chief blames space station leak on drill hole, doesn’t rule out sabotage

The International Space Station’s crew has successfully stopped up last week’s tiny air leak in a Russian Soyuz capsule docked… Read More

Sep 2, 2018, 9:00 AM

Space Adventures is back in vogue – and aiming to go beyond orbital tourism

More than 17 years after Space Adventures put its first millionaire client in orbit, and nearly nine years after getting… Read More

Aug 31, 2018, 11:01 AM

Systima wins a contract to supply hatch mechanisms for NASA’s Orion spaceship

Systima Technologies says it’s been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems to provide pyrotechnically actuated hatch mechanisms for… Read More

Aug 30, 2018, 9:02 PM

Commercial branding on spacecraft? Five key points in NASA’s evolving space vision

Why can’t commercials be filmed on the International Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of energy drinks or tennis shoes?… Read More

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