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Space Force Component Eyes More Exercises in Indo-Pacific (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) Oct. 22, 2024 | By Greg Hadley Share Article Two years after standing up, U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific is bolstering partnerships and expanding exercises across the Indo-Pacific theater, said Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Mastalir, the Space Force’s first component commander. The command is replacing […]
Space Force Adds 6 New Satellites to Its MEO Missile Warning Constellation (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) Oct. 23, 2024 | By Greg Hadley Share Article Space Systems Command is adding six more satellites to its medium-Earth orbit missile warning/missile tracking constellation, awarding a $386 million contract to Millennium Space Systems. The order doubles to 12 spacecraft […]
SDA Sets Approved Vendor Pool to Compete for Experimental Satellites (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) Oct. 23, 2024 | By Greg Hadley Share Article The Space Development Agency has created a pool of non-traditional defense space vendors to compete for experimental and demonstration satellite contracts in low-Earth orbit, director Derek M. Tournear announced Oct. 23. The Hybrid […]
Data Integrity, Not Cyber Attacks, Are What Most Worry Space Command’s Cyber Boss (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) Oct. 24, 2024 | By Shaun Waterman Share Article What keeps the digital warriors charged with fighting America’s wars in space awake at night isn’t cyber attacks per se, but more nebulous threats to the integrity of their data, […]
Artemis 2 astronauts train for emergencies with Orion spacecraft ahead of 2025 moon launch (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) In case of emergency on Earth, open the spacecraft door. The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently practiced a key contingency operation as they continue to prepare for their moon mission: opening the side hatch of their Orion […]
30 years of polar climate data converted into menacing, 6-minute song (Image Credit: Space.com) A Japanese scientist has taken inspiration from the climate crisis to compose music that sounds as ominous as current forecasts of ecological breakdown. Hiroto Nagai, a geoenvironmental scientist and associate professor at Rissho University in Tokyo, compiled publicly available climate data […]
Watch comet ATLAS burn up as it flies into the sun (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward perihelion, the closest point to the sun in its orbit. There were earlier hopes that the comet, officially designated […]
SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut released from hospital, returns to Houston (Image Credit: Space.com) The NASA astronaut who was hospitalized for a night after the splashdown of SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission has been released and is doing well, according to the agency. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule “Endeavour” returned to Earth on Friday morning (Oct. 25) off the […]
Watch Astronauts Give a Rare Tour of China’s Luxurious Space Station (Image Credit: futurism-com) [embedded content] We’ve never seen this much of the station before. Space Cribs Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station have given us a rare glimpse into what life is like roughly 260 miles above the surface. As seen […]
NASA Astronauts Hospitalized After Splashdown in Rare Incident (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) All four Crew-8 astronauts underwent medical evaluations at a Florida hospital Florida after returning from space on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon, and one astronaut was forced to stay overnight due to an unspecified medical issue. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission splashed down at 3:29 […]
