Space – Page 27 of 88

NASA's Jim Bridenstine in SpaceX Crew Dragon simulation

NASA’s chief and SpaceX’s Elon Musk mend fences – and give ‘best guess’ for Crew Dragon’s big flight

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited SpaceX’s headquarters in California today, for what was seen as an opportunity to smooth over… Read More

Amazon exec Dave Limp expects Project Kuiper satellites to boost sales and cloud

Why is Amazon planning to put thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit? Part of the motivation is to expand… Read More

Boeing to invest $20M in Virgin Galactic, marking a milestone team-up in commercial space

Boeing says it’s planning to invest $20 million in Virgin Galactic once it goes public, potentially unlocking a new level… Read More

Astronomers spot 20 more moons of Saturn — and want you to help name them

Saturn has pulled ahead of Jupiter again in the moon discovery race, thanks to a batch of 20 outer moons… Read More

NASA picks 25 space technologies for testing by Blue Origin and other companies

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 25 promising space technologies for testing aboard aircraft, high-altitude balloons and suborbital rocket ships… Read More

Japan’s KAGRA detector joins LIGO and Virgo in global hunt for gravitational waves

Japan’s Kamioka Gravitational-Wave Detector, or KAGRA, is due to start teaming up with similar detectors in Washington state, Louisiana and… Read More

First Mode and Western Washington Univ. win NASA’s nod to make Mars geology tool

Seattle’s First Mode team and Western Washington University say they’ve won a NASA contract to advance the technology for sizing up… Read More

Three spacefliers, including first Emirati in orbit, return to Earth from space station

Today’s landing of a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan brought one of the shortest recent stays on the International Space Station… Read More

Blue Origin’s CEO says first space trips on New Shepard will cost ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has always shied away from saying how much it will cost to… Read More

Amazon’s Project Kuiper and OneWeb raise the curtain higher on their satellite plans

Filings with the Federal Communications Commission are providing fresh details about the plans being laid by Amazon and OneWeb to… Read More

Relativity Space raises $140M to stay on track for 3D-printed rocket’s launch

Four years after it was founded in Seattle, Relativity Space has landed its biggest infusion of capital to date —… Read More

NASA issues its fast-track plan to get two commercial lunar landers for 2024-2025

After two preliminary rounds, NASA today published its final call for industry proposals to have the first two landers capable… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk lays out a fast and furious plan for Starship super-rocket

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk set a revved-up timeline tonight for testing and building a fleet of Starship rocket ships that… Read More

NASA awards $10M to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for hydrogen-oxygen storage tech

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is on the top of the funding list for a newly announced… Read More

Stratolaunch rebuilds team for the world’s biggest plane after Paul Allen’s death

Stratolaunch is hiring — nearly a year after the death of its billionaire backer, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and five… Read More

Trio’s arrival boosts space station’s population to nine, including first Emirati

Three more spacefliers arrived at the International Space Station today in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, increasing the orbital outpost’s population… Read More

Blue Origin gets ready for next spaceflights but might delay flying people until 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is laying plans for two more uncrewed tests of its New Shepard… Read More

Experts confirm that a second interstellar visitor is zipping through solar system

Two years after astronomers made their first detection of a celestial object that came into our solar system from the… Read More

NASA’s Orion spacecraft program gets a multibillion-dollar vote of support

NASA says it’s ordering three more Orion spacecraft for missions to the moon, at a cost of $2.7 billion —… Read More

NASA science chief says NEO Surveillance Mission will seek out threatening asteroids

The head of NASA’s science operations says the space agency intends to develop a new space-based infrared telescope to hunt… Read More

Elon Musk tweets a sneak peek at his vision for SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is talking up his Starship Mk1 prototype super-rocket in Texas, less than a week in advance… Read More

Intelsat sues OneWeb broadband satellite venture over a mega-deal that went sour

One of the world’s biggest satellite operators, Intelsat, is accusing the OneWeb broadband satellite venture and its biggest investor, SoftBank,… Read More

Space Talent puts jobs at Blue Origin, SpaceX and elsewhere in one big database

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are often at odds, but there’s at least one place… Read More

SpaceX wants to rearrange its Starlink satellites for faster broadband ramp-up

SpaceX is seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission for changes in the spacing of its Starlink broadband satellites, in… Read More

Brad Pitt coaxes a thumbs-up for his ‘Ad Astra’ movie in hookup with space station

Imagine the taglines in the movie ads: “Really good” portrayal of zero-gravity! “Absolutely” better than George Clooney! There’d be some… Read More

Bigelow Aerospace and NASA test earthly mockup of interplanetary space station

Bigelow Aerospace opened up its ground-based prototype for a space station module — or perhaps even a Mars transport habitat… Read More

After leading Mars rover missions, Steve Squyres joins Blue Origin as chief scientist

Just months after closing out the 15-year-long Opportunity rover mission on Mars, Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres is taking advantage… Read More

The safest bet for space settlers? Would you believe it’s inside Mars’ moon Deimos?

The smaller of Mars’ two moons, Deimos, was named after the Greek god of terror — but the way former… Read More

After 50 years, space settlement experts update their vision for off-planet outposts

Fifty years ago, a Princeton physicist named Gerard O’Neill asked his students to help him come up with a plan… Read More

India loses contact with Chandrayaan 2’s lander at climax of historic moon mission

India’s Mission Control lost contact with the lander for its Chandrayaan 2 mission today, just as it was about to… Read More