Exploring the Moon’s Shadowy Craters With Nuclear-Powered Rovers
Rovers equipped with Radioisotope Power Systems (RPSs), aka. nuclear reactors, could effectively explore the craters in the Moon’s southern polar region.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4859-4866: One Small Crater and Thousands of Polygons
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Kepler to lead interoperability tests for ESA’s HydRON optical relay network
The European Space Agency has picked Canadian small satellite operator Kepler Communications to lead a hosted payload mission to test terminal interoperability for HydRON, ESA’s flagship optical relay network program.…
Blue Origin moves toward launch at Vandenberg
COLORADO SPRINGS – Blue Origin moved a step closer to launching New Glenn rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base with a U.S. Space Force decision to conduct final negotiations of…
NRO highlights government and industry partnerships
COLORADO SPRINGS – The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for U.S. spy satellites, seeks partners to accelerate its adoption of state-of-the-art intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. “We are ready…
NASA’s Artemis 2 moonshot was just the ‘opening act’ for America’s return to the moon, space agency chief says
Artemis 2 kicks off a lunar “relay race” that will lead the NASA and its international partners to a moon base and, eventually, Mars, NASA chief Jared Isaacman says.
SES and Boeing move toward factory-installed multi-orbit inflight connectivity
SES announced an agreement with Boeing April 14 to start integrating multi-orbit hardware during aircraft production, marking a key step away from retrofit installations to incorporate LEO broadband. The post…
Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes ispace-U.S. to Board of Directors
April 14, 2026 – Washington, D.C.—The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) and ispace technologies U.S., inc. (ispace-U.S.) today announced that ispace-U.S., a U.S.-based commercial lunar exploration company, has joined its Board…
The Incredible Shrinking Neutrino.
They are the most abundant particles in the universe, yet we barely know they exist. Neutrinos stream through everything, through walls, through planets and even through you…. in their billions…
Reading the Moon’s Buried Past.
The lunar south pole is where humanity plans to build its first permanent outpost but we still don’t fully understand what lies beneath the surface. A new study has used…