ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX Starlink Competitor Plagued by Ground Problems in Quest for Global Coverage For Eutelsat, landing rights and deploying ground are significant hurdles in the global rollout of its OneWeb internet constellation. By George Dvorsky Published January 31, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Space Shuttle Looks Launch Ready for the First Time in Years The museum team stacked the Endeavour orbiter on top of an external tank and two solid boosters, marking a big step towards the completion of the display. By Passant Rabie Published January 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight After Ingenuity: Bigger, Bolder Aircraft for Exploring Aliens Worlds It is difficult to emphasise the significance of the milestone surpassed by NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity. Kevin Olsen, The Conversation Published January 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Tiny Robot Surgeon Will Slice Through Fake Human Flesh on the ISS Launching on Tuesday, the mechanical arm is paving the way for doctors to perform virtual surgeries on astronauts in space. By Passant Rabie Published January 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Japan’s Moon Lander Springs Back to Life, Defying the Odds SLIM fell into an unfortunate position last week, with its solar arrays pointed away from the Sun, but the lander has resumed operations after regaining power. By Passant Rabie Published January 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Wife of SpaceX Worker Left in a Coma After Rocket Test Sues, Claiming Negligence The grave accident is one of many that have occurred at SpaceX, where workers have suffered amputations, burns, and other injuries. By George Dvorsky Published January 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The ISS Is Getting a New Pair of Creepy Robot Arms Space startup GITAI is launching its robotic arms to carry out orbital handy work outside the space station. By Passant Rabie Published January 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Satellites Are Getting a Constellation of Traffic Cops Launching this coming weekend, the first four satellites of NorthStar's planned constellation will monitor space traffic and aid in collision prevention. By Passant Rabie Published January 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The Most Precious Human Relics Left in Space Humanity has sent all sorts of stuff into space over the years. These items are the most valuable and historically significant. By George Dvorsky Published January 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Mars Helicopter Breaks a Blade and Will Never Fly Again RIP, Ingenuity, the first craft to fly on another planet. By Passant Rabie Published January 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Japan’s Lunar Mission Is Lying Face Down on the Moon A new photo reveals what's happened to SLIM lander, which made a historic pinpoint landing on the Moon. By Passant Rabie Published January 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Chinese Startup’s Reusable Rocket Looks Awfully Familiar Landscape's prototype first stage rocket, resembling Falcon 9, performed a brief hop that inches it a tiny bit closer to U.S. industry giant SpaceX. By Passant Rabie Published January 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Want to Send Your Ashes to the Moon? Here’s Why You Should Reconsider As private firms take the lead in space exploration, sending personal items to the Moon is now an option. But this raises important ethical and legal issues. Carol Oliver, The Conversation Published January 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight You Don’t Win Friends With Space Salad New research suggests that leafy greens grown on the ISS could be more prone to bacterial infections in space, exposing the crew to potential health risks. By Passant Rabie Published January 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight 13 Things You Didn’t Know About the International Space Station Think you know everything there is to know about the ISS? Guess again. By George Dvorsky Published January 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Sierra Space Built an Inflatable Space Module the Size of a House, Then Blew It Up The company conducted a spectacular burst test on a full-scale LIFE module to assess the strength of its pressure shell. By Passant Rabie Published January 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Finally Opened the Asteroid Container and Holy Crap That’s a Lot of Asteroid After months of struggling to get to the bulk of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, the space agency has unveiled a treasure trove of ancient rocks and dust. By Passant Rabie Published January 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Sunlight May Reignite Japan’s Struggling ‘Lunar Sniper’ on the Moon Forced to shut down its lander due to power issues, Japan’s space agency is now holding out for some fortuitous sunlight. By George Dvorsky Published January 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Lunar Satellite Shoots Lasers to a Moon Lander for the First Time An orbiting instrument named LOLA succeeded in sending a laser beam to ping India's Vikram lander on the lunar surface. By Passant Rabie Published January 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Astrobotic Feared ‘Catastrophic Situation’ If It Didn’t Destroy Peregrine Lunar Lander Astrobotic made the tough choice to destroy its lunar lander, which disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere on Thursday. By Passant Rabie Updated January 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
