SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch
Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch

Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May

Source: Theregister.com

See SpaceX Starship V3 megarocket on the launchpad as it gears up for its next test flight
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
See SpaceX Starship V3 megarocket on the launchpad as it gears up for its next test flight

This test flight comes at a pivotal moment for Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the company pushes to go public this year and show it’s ready for NASA’s planned ...

Source: Scientific American

Building Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
Building Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

Logan Kugler, writing in early April: The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one fro...

Source: 512pixels.net

'Like putting a microscope into the core of the sun': World's 1st space-based neutrino detector launches to orbit
Artemis Program 1 month ago
'Like putting a microscope into the core of the sun': World's 1st space-based neutrino detector launches to orbit

The world's first space-based neutrino detector launched to space this month to study elusive neutrino particles that constantly bombard Earth.

Source: Space.com

Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX sets date for first Starship version 3 launch

SpaceX has set a date for the long-delayed first launch of its next-generation Starship vehicle, which is critical to the company’s ambitions as well ...

Source: SpaceNews

Artemis Program 1 month ago
SES joins Eutelsat in canceling GEO expansion satellites

SES has canceled two satellites Intelsat ordered before being acquired by the Luxembourg-based multi-orbit operator, joining France’s Eutelsat in pull...

Source: SpaceNews

Tianzhou-10 Docks With China Space Station, Completing 10th Consecutive Supply Mission
Space Technology 1 month ago
Tianzhou-10 Docks With China Space Station, Completing 10th Consecutive Supply Mission

Early on Monday morning, sunlight spilled over the Wenchang Space Launch Site located in the South China's tropical island province of Hainan, gl...

Source: Sputnikglobe.com

NASA partners with Microchip to build next-generation spaceflight chips with 100x the power of current offerings — chip designed to withstand radiation for extended missions on the Moon and Mars
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
NASA partners with Microchip to build next-generation spaceflight chips with 100x the power of current offerings — chip designed to withstand radiation for extended missions on the Moon and Mars

The public-private partnership aims to develop an SoC that offers 100x the computing power of current chips designed for spaceflight. NASA envisions t...

Source: Tom's Hardware UK

SpaceX fueled the world’s tallest rocket without incident, and the launch window may open within days
Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX fueled the world’s tallest rocket without incident, and the launch window may open within days

SpaceX has loaded propellant into its Starship V3 vehicle, completing a full launch rehearsal that clears one of the final technical hurdles before th...

Source: Space Daily

NASA just put a political operative with zero space experience in charge of launch operations at Kennedy — and the quiet part is what it signals about who actually runs the agency now
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
NASA just put a political operative with zero space experience in charge of launch operations at Kennedy — and the quiet part is what it signals about who actually runs the agency now

NASA has placed Brian Hughes, its former chief of staff, in charge of the agency’s two largest launch sites. Hughes has no background in spaceflight e...

Source: Space Daily

Cost estimate for 'Golden Dome' missile defense system balloons to $1.2 trillion
Artemis Program 1 month ago
Cost estimate for 'Golden Dome' missile defense system balloons to $1.2 trillion

It will likely cost about $1.2 trillion to develop and operate President Trump's planned "Golden Dome" missile defense system, accordin...

Source: Space.com

NASA has discovered planets so strange they sound completely impossible: From worlds that rain molten glass to giant “marshmallow” planets
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
NASA has discovered planets so strange they sound completely impossible: From worlds that rain molten glass to giant “marshmallow” planets

Scientists are discovering strange new planets beyond our solar system. These worlds defy old ideas about how planets form and what they look like. Fr...

Source: The Times of India

NASA’s Apollo moon missions relied on this computer scientist and differential equations
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
NASA’s Apollo moon missions relied on this computer scientist and differential equations

Margaret Hamilton designed safety features for NASA inspired in part by her four-year-old

Source: Scientific American

Artemis Missions 1 month ago
Four People in a Pixel

When NASA's Artemis II spacecraft carried four astronauts around the Moon earlier this year, the world's largest fully steerable radio teles...

Source: Universe Today

Artemis Program 1 month ago
What Your Kitchen Sink Has in Common With Venus

Turn on your kitchen tap and watch the water hit the sink. That split second where fast, shallow water suddenly slows and spreads is known as a hydrau...

Source: Universe Today

(VIDEO) SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Set to Smash Into Moon August 5 at 5,400 MPH
Space Technology 1 month ago
(VIDEO) SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Set to Smash Into Moon August 5 at 5,400 MPH

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A discarded upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is hurtling toward a high-speed collision with the Moon on August 5, 2026...

Source: Ibtimes.com.au

How does JWST map the cosmic web? #science
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
How does JWST map the cosmic web? #science

JWST delivers the clearest cosmic web map yet The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced what astronomers are calling the sharpest ever map of...

Source: Alltoc.com

James Webb telescope reveals the clearest map ever of the Universe’s cosmic web
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
James Webb telescope reveals the clearest map ever of the Universe’s cosmic web

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure t...

Source: Science Daily

Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX launches secret US spy satellites to orbit from California (photos) - Space

SpaceX launches secret US spy satellites to orbit from California (photos)Space Live coverage: SpaceX to launch intelligence-gathering satellites for ...

Source: Slashdot.org

NASA’s Hubble reveals a giant chaotic planet nursery unlike anything seen before
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
NASA’s Hubble reveals a giant chaotic planet nursery unlike anything seen before

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure ap...

Source: Science Daily