Space – Page 46 of 88

SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says

It’s been three months since SpaceX launched the first prototype satellites for its Starlink broadband internet network, and there’s been… Read More

Astronaut Alan Bean, Apollo 12’s artistic moonwalker, dies at 86 after sudden illness

Artist-astronaut Alan Bean, the moonwalker who saw himself as different from the rest, died today at the age of 86… Read More

‘The Expanse’ is saved: Jeff Bezos says Amazon will pick up sci-fi TV saga, and the crowd goes wild

LOS ANGELES — I wanted to start out talking with Jeff Bezos tonight about his vision for settling outer space, but… Read More

Five ‘Martian’ miscues to fix in space flicks

LOS ANGELES — Planetary scientist Pascal Lee could give astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson a good run for his money when… Read More

SpaceX propulsion guru Tom Mueller looks ahead to Raptor rocket engines for Mars

LOS ANGELES — SpaceX’s success owes a lot to the tenacity of the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, but some of… Read More

President Trump signs off on directive to deregulate commercial space ventures

President Donald Trump has signed his administration’s second space policy directive, focusing on streamlining licensing procedures and turning the Commerce… Read More

Planetary scientists suggest that Pluto was put together from a billion comets

Did Pluto form like its closer-in brethren in the solar system, or is it the result of an agglomeration of… Read More

Next-generation GOES-17 weather satellite encounters infrared imaging glitch in orbit

Two months after its launch, the main imaging instrument on a next-generation weather satellite is experiencing problems with its cooling… Read More

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sees satellites as bigger market than rockets

SpaceX is taking a commanding role in the rocket business — but Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president and chief operating officer,… Read More

SpaceX launches gravity-mapping probes plus another five Iridium telecom satellites

A refurbished SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent two gravity-mapping satellites and five satellites for Iridium’s next-generation telecommunications network into orbit… Read More

Amazon reportedly talks about reviving ‘The Expanse’ after Syfy cancellation

Just days after the Syfy channel announced it was canceling “The Expanse,” sparking a fan campaign to save the space… Read More

Taking a page from Amazon playbook, Jeff Bezos says it’s ‘Day One’ for space industry

“Day One” isn’t just for Amazon anymore: Billionaire Jeff Bezos says that first-day feeling of being fired up about a… Read More

Zunum Aero strikes deal with JetSuite for debut of hybrid electric airplanes in 2022

Zunum Aero says its first hybrid-to-electric airplanes will wear the colors of JetSuite, a private aviation company that’s a partner… Read More

Orbital ATK sends Cygnus cargo ship to space station with science and a sextant

Update for 10 p.m. PT May 24: Astronauts used the International Space Station’s robotic arm to snag Orbital ATK’s robotic… Read More

Queqiao takes flight: China launches Chang’e-4 relay satellite to moon’s far side

News Brief: China today launched a satellite that will serve as the communications relay for a future probe on the… Read More

Small seeds on Cygnus cargo ship could lead to giant leap for farming in space

When Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket launches a robotic Cygnus cargo spaceship toward the International Space Station, as early as Monday,… Read More

It’s full of stars! NASA’s planet-hunting TESS probe sends back its first test image

One month after its launch, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has sent back an initial test image that shows more… Read More

Asteroid Institute’s first fellows come with credentials that are out of this world

A Silicon Valley institute focusing on the perils and prospects posed by near-Earth objects has chosen its first senior research… Read More

Frosty vs. Leaky: Spacewalkers shuffle spare coolant pumps at space station

News Brief: Two NASA spacewalkers repositioned a pair of spare coolant pumps outside the International Space Station today during a… Read More

How number crunchers could help crack the cosmological mystery of dark energy

Big data just might give astronomers a better grip on the answer to one of the biggest questions in physics:… Read More

Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moon

The Arch Mission Foundation is partnering with Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to have a miniaturized library sent to the moon’s surface aboard… Read More

Smallest interplanetary probe snaps a picture of our Pale Blue Dot (and the moon)

You don’t have to fly beyond the orbit of Neptune to see our home planet as a Pale Blue Dot.… Read More

21-year-old readings boost the case for water plumes spraying out from Europa

News Brief: A closer look at magnetic and plasma wave readings from NASA’s now-defunct Galileo spacecraft firms up the evidence… Read More

NASA adds a drone to its 2020 Mars rover

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has given the thumbs-up to putting a helicopter on Mars. The Mars Helicopter, which is actually… Read More

SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 debuts with launch for Bangladesh (and rocket landing)

SpaceX sent a Bangladeshi telecommunications satellite into orbit today atop what CEO Elon Musk calls the “last major version” of… Read More

United Launch Alliance picks Aerojet’s RL10 rocket engine for Vulcan upper stage

United Launch Alliance has chosen Aerojet Rocketdyne over Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture to provide the upper-stage… Read More

Computer aborts milestone SpaceX rocket launch at last minute, forcing a day’s delay

News Brief: The anxiously awaited launch of the first of SpaceX’s “last” Falcon 9 rockets will have to wait at… Read More

‘Eggs’ for alien Earths? At 94, physicist Freeman Dyson’s brain is still going strong

Alien megaspheres … rockets powered by nuclear bombs … freeze-dried life in outer space: These are just some of the… Read More

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship brings Robonaut and mice back to Earth from space station

News Brief: After a month of unloading and reloading, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule was set loose from the International Space… Read More

Fog and flames: Up-close photos from the Mars InSight mission’s launch pad

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — As thick fog enveloped Space Launch Complex 3 early this morning, the Mars InSight lander… Read More