Four NASA payloads to fly on Astrolab’s first lunar rover
WASHINGTON — Astrolab’s first lunar rover will carry four NASA payloads on a mission planned to launch later this year.
What time is SpaceX’s Starship V3 launch on May 20? (Starship Flight 12 timeline)
SpaceX will launch its first Starship V3 vehicle on the Flight 12 test flight on Wednesday (May 20).
Asteroid 2022 OB5 Spins Too Fast For Current Prospectors Highlighting the Divide Between “Accessible” and “Exploitable”
Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either processes it on site or returns it back…
NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars
In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Using instruments aboard…
NASA Selects Next Class of Space Health Postdoctoral Fellows
A view of NASA’s Orion spacecraft aboard the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on April 1 during the launch of the Artemis II test flight. Credit: NASA The NASA-funded Translational…
Watch Vega C rocket launch European-Chinese space weather satellite to orbit tonight
A Vega C rocket will launch the European-Chinese SMILE space weather mission to orbit tonight (May 18), and you can watch the action live.
Gazing Into the Past With TIME
How can astronomers observe ancient galaxies when they’re so challenging to resolve? By looking at a whole bunch of them at once in a single spectral line and seeing how…
Inside Golden Dome’s push to court commercial tech firms and investors
WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials overseeing Golden Dome are trying to convince commercial space founders, venture investors and software companies that missile defense can be built more like a modern technology…
Tomorrow.io adds $35 million to DeepSky funding round
TAMPA, Fla. — Weather intelligence provider Tomorrow.io has added $35 million to its latest funding round, bringing the total to $210 million to accelerate development of a next-generation constellation for…
House bill restores funding for TraCSS
WASHINGTON — A House appropriations bill would reverse plans by the administration to stop development of a civil space traffic management system.