Could You Find What A Lunar Crater Is Made Of By Shooting It?
Americans are famously fond of their guns. So it should come as no surprise that a team of NASA scientists has devised a way to “shoot” a modified type of…
There are Plenty of Uses for Powerful Lasers in Space. But Where Should We Put Them?
Is it time for space lasers yet? Almost. As time passes, ideas that were once confined to the realm of science fiction become more realistic. It’s true of things like…
A ‘primordial’ black hole may zoom through our solar system every decade
If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational…
There Could be a Way to Fix Spacecraft at L2, Like Webb and Gaia
Billions of dollars of observatory spacecraft orbit around Earth or in the same orbit as our planet. When something wears out or goes wrong, it would be good to be…
ESA tests Neuraspace traffic management services
PARIS – The European Space Agency plans to test space traffic management services offered by Portuguese startup Neuraspace. Under a contract announced Sept. 16, ESA’s Space Debris Office will integrate…
ImageSat International (ISI) Announces $54.5 Million Contract to Provide Space-Based Analytics Services
ImageSat International (ISI) has been awarded a $54.5 million agreement to provide space-based intelligence analytics services for an International Defense Customer, for a period of three years. The service will…
Apex unveils larger satellite bus
Satellite manufacturer Apex formally rolled out a larger satellite bus that the company says is geared for more demanding missions from government customers. The post Apex unveils larger satellite bus…
Can a Greenhouse with a Robotic Arm Feed the Next Lunar Astronauts?
Continuous human habitation of the Moon is the state aim of many major space-faring nations in the coming decades. Reaching that aim requires many tasks, but one of the most…
Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Two of the Biggest Mysteries in Cosmology
Of all the mysteries facing astronomers and cosmologists today, the “Hubble Tension” remains persistent! This term refers to the apparent inconsistency of the Universe’s expansion (aka. the Hubble Constant) when…
Studying Stars from the Lunar Surface with MoonLITE, Courtesy of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Optical interferometry has been a long-proven science method that involves using several separate telescopes to act as one big telescope, thus achieving more accurate data as opposed to each telescope…