SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket grounded after mishap in space, leaving fate of upcoming missions uncertain
Last Thursday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Vandenberg Space Launch Complex in California with a payload…
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Launches Critical Weather Satellite
Update: June 25, 6:00 p.m. ET: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully blasted off shortly before 5:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday. First…
Next-Generation Spaceplanes Are the Cutting-Edge Evolution of the Space Shuttle Dream
NASA’s Space Shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement in 2011. However, the US space agency’s…
Giant Satellite Set for Fiery Reentry After 13 Years of Orbital Creep
After 13 years of slow orbital decay, a legacy satellite will finally be put out of its misery by plunging…
SpaceX’s Giant Starship Tapped to Launch Starlab’s Giant Steel Space Station
Starlab Space’s forthcoming space station is so big and heavy that only the formidable SpaceX Starship megarocket can launch it…
January Was One Hell of Month in Spaceflight
Image: SafranThis striking scanning electron microscope image offers an intimate view of a test glass surface, part of a project…
Tiny Robot Surgeon Will Slice Through Fake Human Flesh on the ISS
Earth orbit is getting its own space doctor in the form of a small cyborg arm reaching out for the…
Satellites Are Getting a Constellation of Traffic Cops
Earth’s orbit will be monitored by a watchful set of robotic eyes, the first commercial constellation of satellites with the…
The Most Precious Human Relics Left in Space
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster and Starman manikin shortly after launch on February 6, 2018. Photo: SpaceXBeing the space nerd that…
Space Force Forms Intelligence Unit to Target Enemy Satellites
The United States Space Force has launched a unit dedicated to warding off threats from other countries in space.Taking out…
