NASA’s X-59 Prepares for First Supersonic Flight
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies over Rogers Dry Lake near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards,…
Observable Space raises $90 million and wins Space Force contract for optical systems
Observable Space, a company that develops optical systems for laser communications and space domain awareness, has raised $90 million and secured a U.S. Space Force contract. The post Observable Space…
JWST Studies a Dark and Airless Super-Earth
There’s a planet out there called LHS 3844 b, orbiting a star about 48 light-years away. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) found it in 2018 when the planet transited…
Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?
A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers on the moon by arguing that these launchers could serve as valuable first strike weapons systems.
I Am Artemis: Daniel Stubbs
4 Min Read I Am Artemis: Daniel Stubbs Listen to this audio excerpt from Daniel Stubbs, NASA aerospace engineer: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element.…
Earthly Hors d’oeuvres For Hungry Red Dwarfs
We know that stars can engulf planets because stars that swell up to become red giants overwhelm any close-in planets. The Sun will do this to Venus, Mercury, and possibly…
New Landsat Science Team Holds First In-Person Meeting
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Andy Weir’s ‘The Martian’ just got a deluxe edition to celebrate the book’s 15-year anniversary, and it’s a stunner
Before ‘Project Hail Mary,’ Weir wrote the quintessential space saga now being given a stunning makeover
NASA is hatching a ‘fast-paced plan’ to boost this space telescope. But first, they’ll have to find it
NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its Swift space telescope will be this fall, so that a private spacecraft can meet up with the observatory and…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4900-4907: Pasadena, We Have a Drill Sample!
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