With SpaceX Taking Up So Many Headlines, Here’s What the other Commercial Space Companies Have Been Up To… Let’s face it. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. And when it comes to making headlines about space, few wheels are more...
The ISS’s NICER Telescope Observed an X-Ray Burst That Released The Same Amount of Energy in 20 seconds as It Takes The Sun About Ten Days To Release! The Neuron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope mounted on the ISS...
The Next Phase of the SpaceX’s Revolutionary Internet Service Program is in Orbit after They Successfully Launched 60 Starlink Satellites Yesterday. SpaceX wants to put a lot of satellites into orbit. Of course, they’ve been successfully doing it for a...
SpaceX’s Next Falcon 9 Launch Features Several Firsts for Musk’s Dream of Reusable Rockets. Elon Musk turned a bunch of heads earlier this week when he told the Air Force that he could launch Starship at a cost of around...
As the 2024 Artemis Deadline Looms, Boeing Pitched Its Idea for a Lunar Lander on Tuesday. I have to admit some biases here before we start. First, I’m a proud Washingtonian, and Boeing is headquartered here. Naturally, I want them...
The Next Generation of Internet Service is One Step Closer as Musk and Co. Get Ready to Add to Its Constellation of Starlink Satellites. It’s been about three months since SpaceX launched a rocket. That doesn’t mean there’s been nothing...
At the Air Force’s Space Pitch Day, Elon Musk Said That His SpaceX Starship Rocket Will Only Use Around $900,000 Worth of Fuel Per Mission. Officials from the U.S. Air Force (our actual, functioning space force) met with engineers, business...
Despite SpaceX’s Claims that They’re Years Ahead, Boeing Says Starliner Could Carry Astronauts Next Year. Today Boeing successfully pulled off a pad abort test for their Starliner crew capsule. The successful test comes just one week after SpaceX President and...
The First ISS Crew Launched Nineteen Years Ago. People Around the Twitterverse Cheer the Accomplishment and Are Already Getting Ready for Next Year’s Big ISS Anniversary. On Halloween of 2000, the first long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS)...
After New Horizons Discovered Some Amazing New Data, a Return to Pluto May Be on NASA’s Agenda Soon. NASA might make a return to Pluto in the near future. Recently, the agency, funded the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in order...
Our Finest Space Scientists Are Embracing Halloween with NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors Trailer! What frightens you most? Is it a ghost? Perhaps it’s a ghoul who makes you feel like a fool. Monsters and vampires, spiders and bats. These are but...
Successful Pre-test of Newly-Redesigned Abort System Indicates the SpaceX Crew Dragon May Be Back On Track Understanding NASA’s frustration with SpaceX doesn’t take a degree in rocket science—if you’ll pardon the pun. Ever since 2011, when the agency retired the...
SpaceX President and COO Claims There’s No Real Competition When It Comes to Falcon 9, Starlink, and Starship. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX President and COO, fired proverbial shots at the competition over the past couple of weeks. In fact, whether meeting...
SpaceX’s President Says the SpaceX Starship Could Land With Cargo in 2022, and with People Shortly After. NASA plans to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024. Those of us covering the story made...
After Last Week’s Presentation, More Nations Are Interested In Artemis and Our Plans for the Moon. Last week NASA sort of hosted the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington DC. The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) technically hosted the event. However, because...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Flew By Again, But There’s Still No Sign of India’s Vikram Lander. Around six weeks ago India attempted to become the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. Unfortunately, the Indian Space Research...
Scientists Say We Have the Tools, We Have the Technology, Let’s Go on a Mission to Venus Tomorrow! A month ago, a group of scientists and others from the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) presented recommendations to NASA’s planetary science...
Google Researchers Harness Quantum Mechanics to Reach “Quantum Supremacy”—A Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough—If They’re Right… Last month some rumors leaked out regarding a possible quantum computing breakthrough. The scuttlebutt was that Google achieved a milestone in quantum computing called “quantum...
It’s a Busy Day at the International Astronautical Congress; Fortunately, NASA’s Streaming All of the Happenings! Today is the third day of the 2019 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington, D.C. Though the IAC is a closed event (until Friday),...
Today’s Live Stream from the International Astronautical Congress, Courtesy of NASA TV, Is Called “Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space – Advancing Space Economy” As we reported yesterday, Washington, D.C. is hosting the International Astronautical Congress this week. NASA kicked things...
Space Force or No, SpaceX Is Talking to The Army—Further Expanding the Military-Industrial Complex. SpaceX shares a partnership with NASA that seems like a good deal for mankind. They’re working on making reusable rockets to get scientists, astronauts, and communications...
Bridenstine, Pence, and Others Speak at the Opening Ceremony of This Week’s International Astronautical Congress in Washington, D.C. This week the who’s who of space folk descend on Washington, D.C. for the annual International Astronautical Congress. The week will be...
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