Space – Page 49 of 93

Jul 22, 2018, 1:14 PM

Engine test anomaly deals setback to Boeing’s plans for Starliner space taxi

Boeing confirms that it experienced an anomaly last month during tests of the engines that would be used on its… Read More

Jul 21, 2018, 11:34 PM

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Telstar 19V satellite and lands on drone ship

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket executed a textbook launch to put the heavy-duty Telstar 19 Vantage telecommunications satellite into orbit tonight… Read More

Jul 20, 2018, 10:57 AM

T-minus-1 year: The moon is on the rise as Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary approaches

Forty-nine years ago today, humans first set foot on a world beyond Earth — and by the time the 50th anniversary… Read More

Jul 20, 2018, 7:00 AM

Enjoy July’s gems from Juno at Jupiter

NASA’s Juno orbiter made another close pass of Jupiter this week, and that means there’s another crop of stunning pictures… Read More

Jul 18, 2018, 9:28 AM

Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship hits new heights in escape test flight

As Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos watched, his Blue Origin space venture sent its reusable New Shepard spaceship to its highest-ever… Read More

Jul 17, 2018, 6:51 PM

BlackSky teams up with ATLAS Space Operations for satellite communications

News Brief: Michigan-based ATLAS Space Operations says it will provide telemetry, commanding and data support for the Earth-observing satellite constellation… Read More

Blue Origin's New Shepard spaceship on pad

Jul 17, 2018, 5:55 PM

Blue Origin counts down to high-altitude escape test of New Shepard spaceship

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it’ll push its New Shepard suborbital spaceship “to… Read More

Jul 17, 2018, 4:33 PM

Discoveries boost Jupiter’s retinue to 79 moons — including a wrong-way oddball

Astronomers searching for signs of a hypothetical “Planet Nine” have instead come up with 12 new moons of Jupiter, including… Read More

Jul 16, 2018, 12:01 AM

Lockheed Martin wins $31M from UK Space Agency for spaceport in Scotland

Lockheed Martin is in line to receive $31 million (£23.5 million) in grants from the UK Space Agency to establish… Read More

Jul 15, 2018, 2:30 PM

British government selects Scotland’s Sutherland site to be prime U.K. spaceport

The British government has selected a spot in Sutherland, on the A’Mhoine Peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, as the site… Read More

Jul 13, 2018, 10:56 AM

$200,000 for a trip to space? Blue Origin says price hasn’t been seriously discussed

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, is playing down reports that a suborbital space trip on its New… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 4:44 PM

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule arrives in Florida to get set for uncrewed test flight

After months of testing, a SpaceX Dragon capsule that’s designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 8:00 AM

Antarctic IceCube observatory tracks a single neutrino to solve cosmic ray puzzle

An array of detectors buried under a half-mile-wide stretch of Antarctic ice has traced the path of a single neutrino… Read More

Jul 11, 2018, 7:10 PM

Here’s why space engineers come to Seattle … and why some of them leave

A new employment study indicates that roughly 3,000 people are directly employed by Washington state’s space industry, and roughly half… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 7:38 PM

To the moon? Israel’s SpaceIL says SpaceX will launch team’s lunar lander this year

News Brief: SpaceIL, an Israeli team that was once a competitor in the now-defunct Google Lunar X Prize, says it will have… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 4:47 PM

Fifty years after Apollo, the Peanuts gang signs up again to give NASA a boost

Eighteen years after their creator died, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang are rising again to… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 4:43 PM

TLDR: Microsoft unveils Surface Go, Demi Lovato to headline Amazon concert, new record for same-day delivery in space

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils $399 ‘Surface Go’ with 10-inch display and USB-C port to take on lower-cost iPads and… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 3:15 PM

RBC Signals teams with India’s Antrix for space communications beyond Earth orbit

Seattle-based RBC Signals has forged an agreement with Antrix, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization, to widen… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 10:55 AM

Rocket engine scores ‘perfect 10’ in 10-day test for Phantom Express space plane

A rocket engine built from spare space shuttle parts — and the team behind the engine — passed a grueling 10-day,… Read More

Jul 9, 2018, 7:24 PM

Russian cargo ship sets a new record for same-day delivery to space station

News Brief: A robotic Russian Progress cargo craft today was sent on a “fast-track” trajectory that got it to the… Read More

Jul 7, 2018, 7:00 AM

How a snafu over swarming satellites led Spaceflight to sharpen its launch policy

When India’s PSLV rocket launched a host of satellites into orbit in January, one big piece was missing: the Federal… Read More

Jul 6, 2018, 12:56 PM

NASA’s Kepler probe suspends planet hunt to download data as fuel runs near empty

News Brief: NASA has hit the pause button on observations by its most prolific planet-hunting probe, the Kepler space telescope,… Read More

Jul 6, 2018, 8:00 AM

Virgin Galactic signs onto a deal to bring spaceflights to future spaceport in Italy

Virgin Galactic and a pair of Italian companies today signed a framework agreement aimed at bringing Virgin Galactic’s launch system… Read More

Jul 3, 2018, 3:15 PM

Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is laying out a plan to support the creation… Read More

Jul 3, 2018, 10:36 AM

NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots

The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres are getting their closest close-ups from NASA’s… Read More

Jul 2, 2018, 9:33 AM

SpaceX’s science-laden Dragon cargo spaceship hooks up with space station

News Brief: Three days after its launch, SpaceX’s robotic Dragon cargo capsule is now attached to the International Space Station.… Read More

Jun 29, 2018, 2:55 AM

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends AI robot pal and other experiments to space station

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, sending an AI-enabled, sphere-shaped robot… Read More

Jun 28, 2018, 7:16 PM

Simulated moon dirt is turning up some real challenges for future lunar missions

RENTON, Wash. — When commercial ventures start setting up shop on the moon, they may well run into nasty clouds of… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 7:28 PM

Virgin Orbit gets set to start flight tests of its LauncherOne air-launch system

RENTON, Wash. — British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit venture is getting ready to put its LauncherOne rocket system through… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 5:33 PM

That’s no starship … or asteroid: Hubble hints that interstellar object is a comet

News brief: Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories indicate that the cigar-shaped interstellar object known as… Read More