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How does the Cosmic Web connect Taylor Swift and the last line of your ‘celestial address?’ (Image Credit: Space.com) A new map of the “Cosmic Web” that shaped the universe shows points of gravitational attraction in the local universe called “basins of attraction” in hitherto unseen detail. Created using information from the Cosmicflows-4 dataset, the […]
Following a groundbreaking test flight of Starship in which the booster was caught mid-air by a huge metal tower, SpaceX is already planning on doing the same for the rocket’s upper stage to make way for full reusability of its heavy launch vehicle. Starship lifted off on Sunday, October 13, at 8:25 a.m. ET from […]
See the 99-Ton Robot That’s Printing Rocket Lab’s Neutron Rocket (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) At Rocket Lab’s manufacturing complex in Maryland, a massive robot is hard at work stacking layers of a carbon composite rocket at a rate that will save the company thousands of hours in production. The custom-built 3D printing machine weighs 99 tons […]
A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and adding to the growing swarm of space junk clouding our planet’s neighborhood. The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000km above the Indian Ocean, in a geostationary orbit around […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is moving closer to establishing a commercial reserve program aimed at leveraging private sector resources for national security, and continues to fine-tune the details with satellite operators and other space companies. The initiative, called the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR), would allow the military to tap into commercial space […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is likely to expand its contract for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services, driven by growing demand from military branches for high-speed satellite internet, primarily supplied by SpaceX’s Starshield and OneWeb. The Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services program, which began in 2023 with a $900 million cap […]
Spacecraft landing on dusty surfaces like of the moon and Mars tend to kick up powdery regolith that blurs the lenses of navigation cameras, reducing visibility and making the already-difficult job of landing safely even more arduous. A new instrument that accurately catalogs the abundance of dust and debris in its vicinity may thus be […]
Space Force Is Tracking New Debris Field After Communications Satellite Breaks Apart (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A communications satellite broke apart into smaller fragments in geostationary orbit after an unexpected failure rendered it irrecoverable, littering space with more junk that increases the chance of collision with other spacecraft. The Intelsat 33e satellite, designed to provide communication […]
SpaceX launches 99th operational mission of the year (Image Credit: Phys.org) SpaceX knocked out its 99th operational flight of the year with a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday night. A Falcon 9 with 20 Starlink satellites lifted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:31 p.m. Eastern time. This was the […]
Samples collected from the surface of the moon by the crew of Apollo 16 more than 50 years ago have helped scientists reconstruct billions of years of lunar history. The research team’s findings, published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, are based on analysis of a distinct set of lunar breccias that have never […]
