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The brains of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft are stored in a metal vault. It’s where the large exploration vehicle — the length of a basketball court — safeguards its computers, software, and many electronics. On Oct.14, the craft launched to Jupiter’s moon Europa, a world planetary scientists suspect harbors an ocean twice the volume of […]
SpaceX secures new contracts worth $733.5 million for national security space missions (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. Updated October. 19 with additional information on the task orders WASHINGTON — SpaceX has been awarded contracts for nine launches under […]
MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) is building infrastructure to support lunar exploration. ESA officially launched the Moonlight Lunar Communications and Navigation Services (LCNS) program here at the International Astronautical Congress on Tuesday (Oct. 15), with the aim of providing services for the more than 400 moon missions planned by space agencies and private […]
Researchers at MIT recently published the first results of an experiment aimed at searching for axion dark matter by probing the axion-induced birefringence of electromagnetic waves. While these findings, published in Physical Review Letters, did not lead to the observation of signals associated with these hypothetical dark matter particles, they established a new technique to […]
Space-Based Targeting Challenges Nothing New for NRO, Deputy Director Says (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) The scale and pace of providing intelligence to military forces is changing, but the deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office said Oct. 17 that the agency is drawing on decades of experience to meet the challenge. Speaking at an event hosted […]
In recent decades, we’ve learned huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes—both on Earth and in space—has been a key part of this process, and those that are due to start operating over the next two decades should push the boundaries of our understanding of cosmology much further. […]
SpaceX launches 20 Starlink internet satellites from Florida (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Oct. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 20 Starlink craft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight at 7:31 […]
US Space Force awards SpaceX $730 million to launch at least 9 national-security missions (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX just added another batch of launches to its already-busy manifest. The U.S. Space Force announced on Friday (Oct. 18) that it has awarded SpaceX $733.6 million, in the form of two “National Security Space Launch Phase 3 […]
SpaceX Wins New Launches; USSF Continues to Press for Competition (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) SpaceX secured more orders for Phase 3 launches under the National Security Space Launch program, the first provider to do so, even as the Space Force continues its push to increase its launch options. Space Systems Command awarded two task orders to […]
MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. ESA signed a contract worth €63 million (about $68 million US at current exchange rates) with OHB Italia at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here on Thursday […]
