Geminid meteor shower fills the sky with ‘shooting stars’ in spectacular time-lapse photos
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro of Portugal captured a stunning display of Geminid meteors in these spectacular time-lapse photos.
Vaya Space Announces Multi-Launch Contract for Space Telecommunications, Inc.’s Satellite Constellation
COCOA, Fla., December 10, 2024 – Vaya Space, a space and defense company, has announced a multi-launch contact for Vaya’s Dauntless rocket to launch the first phase of Space Telecommunications,…
Desert Works Propulsion Announces Operational Launch of DW-1, a Rocket Engine Test Facility
New Mexico – December 10, 2024 – Desert Works Propulsion, leading provider of electric propulsion (EP) expertise as a service, proudly announces the launch of DW-1, its state-of-the-art vacuum test…
Has the Universe Been Designed to Support Life? Now We Have a Way to Test it!
The anthropic principle states that the fundamental parameters of the Universe such as the strength of the fundamental forces, have been finely tuned to support life. Whether this is true…
Webb Sees a Supercluster of Galaxies Coming Together
As a species, we’ve come to the awareness that we’re a minuscule part of a vast Universe defined by galaxy superclusters and the large-scale structure of the Universe. Driven by…
Hubble Gets its Best Look At the First Quasar
The term quasar comes from quasi-stellar objects, a name that reflected our uncertainty about their nature. The first quasars were discovered solely because of their radio emissions, with no corresponding…
NASA has Plans for More Cargo Deliveries to the Moon
Through the Artemis Program, NASA hopes to lay the foundations for a program of “sustained lunar exploration and development.” This will include regular missions to the surface, the creation of…
NDAA extends commercial spaceflight learning period and launch indemnification
A defense authorization bill includes language to extend a “learning period” limiting commercial human spaceflight regulations as well as indemnification for commercial launches. The post NDAA extends commercial spaceflight learning…
Globalstar and Parsons unveil satellite service for defense market
The collaboration leverages Globalstar’s low-Earth orbit satellite infrastructure and Parsons’ signal processing technology The post Globalstar and Parsons unveil satellite service for defense market appeared first on SpaceNews.
Heliophysics decadal survey recommends two flagship missions for NASA
A new decadal survey for solar and space physics recommends that NASA’s heliophysics program pursue two billion-dollar missions even as the agency proposes to cancel a recommendation from the previous…