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Submit ArticleCowboy files plans for up to 20,000 orbital data centers
Cowboy Space has filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission for a 20,000-satellite “Stampede” orbital data center constellation, shortly a...
Source: SpaceNews
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket ready for launch after 7-month wait
SpaceX's massive Starship rocket, now updated to be the largest the company has ever launched, is ready to soar as early as next week — seven mon...
Source: New York Post
SpaceX Dragon Counts Down to Launch and Resupply Station
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 6:50 p.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space F...
Source: NASA
NASA, SpaceX Target May 15 for Resupply Mission Launch
NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 6:05 p.m. EDT Friday, May 15, for the company’s 34th commercial resupply services mission to the Int...
Source: NASA
No, this isn't a solar eclipse. It's an image of Mars, captured by NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche probe
NASA spacecraft Psyche has captured a stunning image of Mars ahead of a flyby on Friday (May 15).
Source: Space.com
NASA Draws on Industry for Mars Telecommunications Network
On Thursday, NASA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking industry collaboration for the Mars Telecommunications Network. Reliable, high bandwidt...
Source: NASA
Why Do Commenters Want to Silence Sonny White?
Sonny White (Harold G. “Sonny” White) has solid credentials as a NASA veteran but is viewed as a highly speculative researcher in the broader scientif...
Source: Next Big Future
'A decade or so away, we’ll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers': Google and SpaceX are reportedly in talks to build data centers in orbit
There's more movement on the data-centers-in-space front, as Google and SpaceX are apparently teaming up.
Source: TechRadar
Almost half of the objects in Earth's orbit is junk—and that's only the stuff we know about
Debris is a growing threat to orbital infrastructure, and it's only going to get worse as the number of launches increases
Source: Scientific American
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on failure, the trade war and 'getting off the joy train'
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen has one message for the youth of this country: you will run into obstacles.
Source: National Post
The Roman Space Telescope is Ahead of Schedule, and the Hubble is Giving it a Jump Start
One of the core community surveys of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, is expected to locate over a tho...
Source: Universe Today
UC Student Gets a Closer Look at Lonely Gas Giant
University of Cincinnati astrophysicist Paul Smith is part of an international team studying TOI-2031Ab, a gas giant orbiting a star 901 light years f...
Source: Universe Today
SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket will do something completely new on Flight 12 — take a good look at itself
SpaceX's advanced new "V3" Starship megarocket is set to fly for the first time ever next week. The debut will feature some in-space ac...
Source: Space.com
NASA's Perseverance rover is positively glowing in its new selfie on Mars
Perched along the rugged western rim of Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a dramatic new selfie revealing ancient Martian terrain,...
Source: Space.com
Canada's Mark Carney speaks with Artemis II crew on Earth
Prime Minister Mark Carney met Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and other crew members in Ottawa.
Source: BBC News
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This Microscopic Fungus Survived NASA's Sterilization Protocols—and Is Hardy Enough to Potentially Contaminate Mars
The microbe was gathered from the agency's clean rooms, where experts build spacecraft in carefully controlled environments. The findings reveal ...
Source: Smithsonian.com
NASA, Industry Prepare Cryogenic Fuel Technology Demo
NASA is collaborating with Eta Space of Rockledge, Florida, on an in‑orbit technology demonstration to advance a key capability for future deep space ...
Source: NASA
Hansen, Artemis II crew talk about future space missions in Ottawa
The astronauts who captured the world's imagination with their journey to the far side of the moon last month visited Ottawa to talk about the fu...
Source: National Observer
Antarctic Microbes Put Survival to the Test in Space
ISS National Lab-enabled research studies how life withstands the space environment, informing space exploration and biomanufacturing KENNEDY SPACE CE...
Source: PRNewswire
Baby ‘cosmic fossil’ galaxy brings JWST closer to glimpsing the universe’s first stars
Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some of the first stars to eve...
Source: Scientific American