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A metallic plate about the size of a standard sheet of printer paper is bolting through space as you read this, engraved with the thoughts of U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón: “Arching under the night sky inky with black expansiveness, we point to the planets we know,” Indeed, this slate gray plate is headed toward […]
Northrop Grumman unveils flying data center for military intelligence (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has demonstrated new technology that turns aircraft into a flying data center, processing real-time intelligence from satellites and […]
SpaceX launches 20 Eutelsat OneWeb broadband satellites to orbit (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] SpaceX sent a set of internet satellites to orbit for another company early Sunday morning (Oct. 20). SpaceX launched the last batch of Eutelsat OneWeb’s V1 satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday […]
Blowing up: Inflatable space habitats could be key to exploring the solar system (Image Credit: Space.com) It’s high time to crank up the volume in space! That’s the shout from several private firms that want to see an inflation factor for the future. What is now being evaluated and tested is the […]
Teleoperated rovers could soon be working on the moon, with human controllers on Earth manipulating the rovers’ tools virtually, allowing for greater dexterity when taking samples, digging or assembling. Researchers from the robotics laboratory at the University of Bristol in England have tested their new teleoperations system at the European Space Agency‘s (ESA) European Centre […]
SpaceX to launch 20 Eutelsat OneWeb broadband satellites to space on Oct. 20 (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX plans to send a set of internet satellites to orbit for another company early Sunday morning (Oct. 20). SpaceX plans to launch the last batch of Eutelsat OneWeb’s V1 satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a […]
Watch SpaceX’s Starship come down for nighttime splashdown during epic test flight (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] SpaceX has given us another angle on the epic fifth test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company made history on that Oct. 13 mission, catching Starship‘s Super Heavy first-stage booster with the “chopstick” arms of the […]
NASA’s next-generation Nancy Roman Space Telescope aces crucial ‘spin test’ (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel Assembly — through a rigorous “spin test” designed to evaluate its resilience against the intense gravitational forces it will encounter during launch. This test, […]
In December 2023, a tiny, gold-capped satellite beamed a video of an orange tabby cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer up and down a couch. If you thought you were incessant about showing off your pets, Taters’ 15-second-long adventure was transmitted from 19 million miles away from Earth. A few months later, photos and […]
The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, capturing views of isolated Earth and the moon floating in space. Some of Hera’s instruments — designed to survey the impact site of NASA’s successful asteroid-deflection test — snapped the images below. “Farewell, […]
