Space – Page 48 of 93

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

Aug 5, 2018, 10:03 PM

How small satellites tackle big challenges, from orbital manufacturing to exoplanets

LOGAN, Utah — No one has ever built a satellite in space, but thanks in part to a team of students… Read More

Aug 3, 2018, 7:27 PM

SpaceX Dragon cargo craft splashes down, delivering space algae and cell samples

News Brief: The International Space Station’s crew sent a Dragon back to Earth today, filled with more than 3,800 pounds… Read More

Aug 3, 2018, 9:29 AM

NASA names nine astronauts for SpaceX and Boeing flights to space station

NASA unveiled the first nine astronauts for its commercial crew missions to the International Space Station today, including rookies as… Read More

Aug 2, 2018, 7:24 PM

NASA confirms new timetable for space taxi flights; SpaceX to fly crew next April

NASA today laid out a newly stretched-out schedule for flying astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil, with SpaceX’s… Read More

Aug 1, 2018, 6:06 PM

Boeing resets test schedule for Starliner space taxi; first crewed flight in mid-2019

Last month’s problem with leaky rocket engine valves has forced Boeing to rearrange the sequence of tests for its Starliner… Read More

Jul 27, 2018, 5:24 PM

Moonrise, moonset and Mars: Photos hit the high points at Mount Rainier

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Warm weather, clear skies and a full moon brought me out in search of… Read More

Jul 26, 2018, 7:08 PM

It’s prime time for watching Mars – plus a total lunar eclipse that you can see online

It’s no hoax: Mars is bigger and brighter in the night sky than it’s been at any time since 2003.… Read More

Jul 26, 2018, 4:45 PM

Einstein’s right again: Star obeys relativity as it whirls around Milky Way’s black hole

News Brief: A 26-year-long observational campaign provides clear evidence of the effect that general relativity has on the motion of… Read More

Jul 26, 2018, 10:39 AM

SpaceShipTwo rocket plane pushes the envelope in third supersonic test flight

Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, to its highest-ever altitude today during its third powered test flight —… Read More

Jul 25, 2018, 8:47 AM

Mars Express delivers radar evidence of hidden lake at Red Planet’s south pole

Radar readings from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter point to the location of what appears to be a… Read More

Jul 25, 2018, 6:19 AM

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket puts 10 Iridium satellites in orbit, then lands in rough seas

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent 10 more Iridium NEXT telecommunications satellites into space today from a fogged-in California pad, then… Read More

Jul 24, 2018, 7:36 PM

Scientists come up with revised ‘Rio scale’ to rate claims of extraterrestrial contact

For almost 60 years, efforts to pick up signs of extraterrestrial civilizations have yielded a big fat zero, but there… Read More

Jul 23, 2018, 6:30 PM

Life on the moon? It could have happened billions of years ago, astrobiologists say

The moon is one of the last places in the solar system you’d expect to find life today, but astrobiologists… Read More