Virgin Galactic reaffirms plans to begin commercial service this year
Virgin Galactic said May 14 it remains on track, technically and financially, to start commercial flights of its next-generation suborbital spaceplane before the end of the year.
Chinese satellite maker MinoSpace seeks $736 million in IPO
Chinese satellite maker MinoSpace has seen its initial public offering application accepted, seeking $736 million for constellation and product expansion plans.
Picturing Earth in a New Light
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Ice Moves Out of Aniak
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We’ve Been Listening for Ten Years. Here’s What We Heard
For ten years, astronomers at UCLA have been pointing one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes at the stars and listening. Not for pulsars or gas clouds, or the…
The ‘Doctor Who’ TV movie at 30: Too British for America, too American for the UK
How an unlikely transatlantic alliance attempted to bring a Time Lord back from the dead.
Cowboy files plans for up to 20,000 orbital data centers
Cowboy Space has filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission for a 20,000-satellite “Stampede” orbital data center constellation, shortly after raising $275 million to develop rockets whose upper stages would…
NASA Draws on Industry for Mars Telecommunications Network
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) away from the rover, on April 29,…
No, this isn’t a solar eclipse. It’s an image of Mars, captured by NASA’s asteroid-bound Psyche probe
NASA spacecraft Psyche has captured a stunning image of Mars ahead of a flyby on Friday (May 15).
Intuitive Machines to buy ground station company
Intuitive Machines has agreed to purchase a company that operates ground stations in the United States and United Kingdom to help build out a lunar communications network.