Artemis Program 5 months ago
Orbital Data Centers: Power and Thermal Management for Scalable Architectures

As orbital data centers move from concept to reality, scalable power generation and efficient thermal management are emerging&#1...

Source: SpaceNews

Artemis Missions 5 months ago
I Am Artemis: Tim Goddard

Listen to this audio excerpt from Tim Goddard, NASA open water lead: At the end of their mission around the Moon, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts were re...

Source: NASA

The Quiet Engineering Move That Could Define How a Cape Canaveral Air-Launch Operator Gets to Flight
Artemis Program 5 months ago
The Quiet Engineering Move That Could Define How a Cape Canaveral Air-Launch Operator Gets to Flight

Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Starfighters Space (NYSE American: FJET) just brought in a deep-bench engineering and integration partner...

Source: PRNewswire

Space Technology 5 months ago
SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight Test - Yahoo News UK

SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight TestYahoo News UK SpaceX's upgraded Starship V3 ready for debut launch ahead of ...

Source: Slashdot.org

Nikon’s telescopes to be installed on Axelspace’s next-generation Earth observation satellites GRUS-3
Astronomy Research 5 months ago
Nikon’s telescopes to be installed on Axelspace’s next-generation Earth observation satellites GRUS-3

Nikon’s custom telescopes will equip all seven of Axelspace’s next-generation GRUS-3 Earth observation microsatellites, scheduled for launch in 2026 o...

Source: Nikonrumors.com

Rocket Lab Sinks 9%, Planet Labs Tumbles 6%, Intuitive Machines Slides 5%: Space Rally Hits a Wall
Artemis Program 5 months ago
Rocket Lab Sinks 9%, Planet Labs Tumbles 6%, Intuitive Machines Slides 5%: Space Rally Hits a Wall

Pure-play commercial space stocks are getting hit hard at midday on Tuesday. Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) is down 9%, Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) is off 6%, and...

Source: 24/7 Wall St.

NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid
Comet & Asteroid News 5 months ago
NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some close-up pictures on t...

Source: Space.com

Space Technology 5 months ago
The cardinality wall: The hidden data bottleneck for LEO constellations

The satellite industry is entering an era defined by scale. Thousands of spacecraft are operating simultaneously in low Earth orbit (LEO), powering ev...

Source: SpaceNews

Astronomy Research 5 months ago
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae

An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. T...

Source: NASA

SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 stacked ahead of May 21 liftoff
Space Technology 5 months ago
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 stacked ahead of May 21 liftoff

SpaceX is now targeting a Thursday, May 21, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket. See our latest updates here.

Source: Space.com

The Defense Industrial Base Is Ramping at a Generational Pace -- and a Florida Air-Launch Operator Just Built the Engineering Layer to Fit Into It
Artemis Program 5 months ago
The Defense Industrial Base Is Ramping at a Generational Pace -- and a Florida Air-Launch Operator Just Built the Engineering Layer to Fit Into It

Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Record backlogs, raised guidance, Department of War strategic investments in propulsion capacity, multi-y...

Source: PRNewswire

The Soviet Union landed a probe on Venus in 1970 that survived only 23 minutes before being crushed, but in those 23 minutes Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet, and the signal was so weak engine
Artemis Program 5 months ago
The Soviet Union landed a probe on Venus in 1970 that survived only 23 minutes before being crushed, but in those 23 minutes Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet, and the signal was so weak engine

On December 15, 1970, the Soviet probe Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet. The signal was...

Source: Space Daily

Astronomy Research 5 months ago
Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky

For most of human history, the sky was not something we studied — it was something we lived with. The post Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky appe...

Source: Sky & Telescope

How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket on May 21
Space Technology 5 months ago
How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket on May 21

SpaceX's new "V3" Starship megarocket will fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May 21), and you can watch the highly anticipated a...

Source: Space.com

Artemis Program 5 months ago
Successful launch of SMILE Satellite marks first China-Europe mission-level cooperation in probing solar wind battles

High above our planet, a "cosmic smile" has taken shape. Riding aboard the Vega-C launch vehicle, the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Li...

Source: Globalsecurity.org

The Mental Health Journey of Astronauts Returning Home: Re-Entry Adaptation
Artemis Program 5 months ago
The Mental Health Journey of Astronauts Returning Home: Re-Entry Adaptation

Astronauts often have an emotional change after seeing Earth from space, termed 'the overview effect', the ultimate space, every division.

Source: Psychologs.com

NASA & Space Agencies 5 months ago
Isaacman expects Chinese crewed mission around the moon in 2027

The head of NASA says he expects China to perform a crewed flight around the moon in 2027, ratcheting up perceptions of a space race between China and...

Source: SpaceNews

NASA dreams of a nuclear power plant on the moon. Here’s why
NASA & Space Agencies 5 months ago
NASA dreams of a nuclear power plant on the moon. Here’s why

To build its moon base, NASA needs a lot of power

Source: Scientific American

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.
Artemis Program 5 months ago
This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for i...

Source: ProPublica

The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth at a gravitational balance point so precarious it has to fire its thrusters every three weeks just to stay there, and when its fuel runs out around 2040 it will drift away forever with no
Astronomy Research 5 months ago
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth at a gravitational balance point so precarious it has to fire its thrusters every three weeks just to stay there, and when its fuel runs out around 2040 it will drift away forever with no

The James Webb Space Telescope sits at a gravitational balance point a million miles from Earth, firing its thrusters on a regular cadence to stay in ...

Source: Space Daily