SpaceX Puts First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Into Orbit
NASA & Space Agencies 2 months ago
SpaceX Puts First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Into Orbit

This week, SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying 81 payloads into a sun-synchro...

Source: Hot Hardware

Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots ensures astronauts can vote from space  — or anywhere else
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots ensures astronauts can vote from space  — or anywhere else

A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting voter rights could extend to astronauts living and working in space and training internationally.

Source: Space.com

Artemis Program 2 months ago
Space capitalism needs more than a bull market

By most measures, commercial space is thriving. Washington produced a flurry of activity over the past year: two major executive orders, a raft of dir...

Source: SpaceNews

Artemis Program 2 months ago
Startup testing nuclear battery technology in orbit

A City Labs mission aims to validate a tritium-powered electrical source for satellites and lunar systems that could operate where solar power falls s...

Source: SpaceNews

In 1973, Buzz Aldrin published a memoir admitting that coming home from the Moon had nearly destroyed him, breaking a code of silence inside the astronaut office where psychological difficulty was something you flew through rather than something you were
NASA & Space Agencies 2 months ago
In 1973, Buzz Aldrin published a memoir admitting that coming home from the Moon had nearly destroyed him, breaking a code of silence inside the astronaut office where psychological difficulty was something you flew through rather than something you were

Buzz Aldrin's 1973 memoir Return to Earth broke a quiet rule inside NASA by naming the depression that followed his Moon mission — and the patter...

Source: Space Daily

Returning astronauts describe pain in the soles of the feet and lower back within days of landing — the spine suddenly forced to support half the body’s weight again after months of weightlessness
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Returning astronauts describe pain in the soles of the feet and lower back within days of landing — the spine suddenly forced to support half the body’s weight again after months of weightlessness

Astronauts returning from long-duration missions almost universally report burning pain in the soles of the feet and deep lower-back ache within days ...

Source: Space Daily

Jim Cramer Explains How SpaceX is Changing the Economics of the xAI Business
Space Technology 2 months ago
Jim Cramer Explains How SpaceX is Changing the Economics of the xAI Business

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) was among Jim Cramer's stock calls on Mad Money, as he highlighted the AI opportunities in neo...

Source: Biztoc.com

Gene Munster Says SpaceX Is the Only Sovereign AI Company and Should Be a "Core Tech Holding." Time to Buy While It's Below $150?
Space Technology 2 months ago
Gene Munster Says SpaceX Is the Only Sovereign AI Company and Should Be a "Core Tech Holding." Time to Buy While It's Below $150?

Gene Munster Says SpaceX Is the Only Sovereign AI Company and Should Be a "Core Tech Holding." Time to Buy While It's Below $150? Two m...

Source: Biztoc.com

LEGO Icons 11382 Hubble Space Telescope announced!
Astronomy Research 2 months ago
LEGO Icons 11382 Hubble Space Telescope announced!

LEGO Icons seems to include at least one space-oriented set each year and the latest depicts the famous Hubble Space Telescope! The press release foll...

Source: Brickset.com

Does Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SPCX) Boost the Strategy’s Risk-on Positioning?
Space Exploration 2 months ago
Does Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SPCX) Boost the Strategy’s Risk-on Positioning?

ClearBridge Investments, a global equity manager, recently published second-quarter 2026 commentary for its "Large Cap Growth Strategy". A c...

Source: Biztoc.com

Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?

Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded appro...

Source: Quanta Magazine

Sick of Earth? NASA is recruiting volunteers for a yearlong Moon and Mars simulation | CNN
NASA & Space Agencies 2 months ago
Sick of Earth? NASA is recruiting volunteers for a yearlong Moon and Mars simulation | CNN

For anyone who has ever wondered whether they could handle life on another planet, NASA is offering a chance to find out – well, sort of.

Source: CNN

Space Technology 2 months ago
ElevationSpace advances work on commercial reentry vehicle

A Japanese startup developing reentry vehicles is signing up customers and preparing for its first mission while keeping a watchful eye on SpaceX’s en...

Source: SpaceNews

Scott Kelly spent 340 days aboard the ISS, and he has said the leaving was never the hard part — it was the coming back, when the balance and the strange detachment lingered for weeks after splashdown
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Scott Kelly spent 340 days aboard the ISS, and he has said the leaving was never the hard part — it was the coming back, when the balance and the strange detachment lingered for weeks after splashdown

Scott Kelly returned to Earth on 1 March 2016 after 340 days aboard the ISS, and the part he keeps describing in interviews is not the launch or the y...

Source: Space Daily

Space Technology 2 months ago
Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for record-breaking 36th time early on July 9 - Space

Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for record-breaking 36th time early on July 9Space Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket on record-bre...

Source: Slashdot.org

These ancient quasars shouldn't exist so soon after the Big Bang
Astronomy Research 2 months ago
These ancient quasars shouldn't exist so soon after the Big Bang

Astronomers have uncovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including the two earliest ever detected, shining from a time when the universe was only ab...

Source: Science Daily

Brain scans of ISS astronauts show the organ quietly re-weighting its own senses during six months in orbit — turning down the silent inner ear and leaning almost entirely on the eyes to build a world with no down
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Brain scans of ISS astronauts show the organ quietly re-weighting its own senses during six months in orbit — turning down the silent inner ear and leaning almost entirely on the eyes to build a world with no down

Six months on the International Space Station quietly rewires how astronauts sense the world — turning down inner-ear signals gravity has rendered use...

Source: Space Daily

Astronomy Research 2 months ago
This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 10 – 19

The bright, distinctive pattern of Upper Scorpius is on its best display in the south right after nightfall. Telescopic treasures await. In the west, ...

Source: Sky & Telescope

Don't miss out on 'The Ark' Season 3 — get a year-long Peacock TV deal for just over $9 a month
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Don't miss out on 'The Ark' Season 3 — get a year-long Peacock TV deal for just over $9 a month

Watch SYFY's outer space saga 'The Ark' on Peacock TV and all the best sci-fi content at a bargain price.

Source: Space.com

In July 2026, a Miami startup called City Labs sent a softball-sized CubeSat carrying a tritium battery into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare, becoming the first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite ever launched and the first mission ev
Space Technology 2 months ago
In July 2026, a Miami startup called City Labs sent a softball-sized CubeSat carrying a tritium battery into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare, becoming the first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite ever launched and the first mission ev

A softball-sized satellite from a small Miami company has quietly rewritten the rules of who gets to fly nuclear power in space. City Labs’ BOHR space...

Source: Space Daily