ScienceSpaceflight Make Beautiful Things: The Aesthetic Drive Behind Rocket Lab’s Rise in Aerospace Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has some unique approaches to innovation—and they seem to be working. By George Dvorsky Published April 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Virgin Galactic Accuses Boeing of ‘Shoddy’ Work in Its Countersuit Over Failed Agreement The two companies are dueling it out over proprietary information for a new mothership design. By Passant Rabie Published April 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months Corrupted memory hardware is causing the mission to transmit gibberish, but there may be a way to fix it. By Passant Rabie Published April 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Space Junk Just Fell on Your Home, Now What? A Florida man, whose home was hit by apparent space junk, faced a struggle to be heard, raising questions about the correct procedures and accountability. By Passant Rabie Published April 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s First Moon Buggy Since Apollo: Here’s What We Know So Far Fresh details have emerged about NASA's upcoming Lunar Terrain Vehicle, including the competing companies involved and its capabilities on the Moon. By Passant Rabie Published April 4, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Probe’s Daring Flight Through Sun’s Eruption Sheds Light on Solar Storms The Parker Solar Probe flew through a coronal mass ejection in 2021, finding clues that are helping to unravel the mystery of space weather. By Passant Rabie Published April 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The Moon Is Getting Its Own Time Zone The White House ordered NASA to create "Coordinated Lunar Time,' as activity on and around the Moon intensifies. By Isaac Schultz Updated April 2, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Possible Fragment From ISS Battery Pallet May Have Crashed Through Florida Home NASA is investigating the incident to determine if its recent disposal of a gigantic pallet of old batteries is to blame for the damage. By Passant Rabie Published April 2, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Japan’s SLIM Moon Lander Just Won’t Die The lander unexpectedly woke up after surviving the cold nighttime on the Moon for the second time. By Passant Rabie Published March 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ULA Delays Final Launch of Its ‘Most Metal’ Rocket Due to Liquid Pump Failure ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket is set to launch one last mission to orbit, marking the end of an era that dates back to the early 1960s. By Passant Rabie Updated March 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Rockets Set to Probe the Moon’s Shadow During Upcoming Eclipse All three sounding rockets will release soda-bottle-sized instruments to measure the ways in which solar eclipses disrupt radio communications. By Passant Rabie Published March 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Unveils First Astronaut Moon Kit Since Apollo The space agency revealed a trio of scientific instruments for its Artemis 3 mission, the focus being plants, water, and moonquakes. By Passant Rabie Published March 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Engineers Heat Up Dark Universe Telescope, Restoring Euclid’s Sight The Euclid telescope had been gradually losing its vision as layers of water molecules accumulated on its mirrors. By Passant Rabie Published March 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Astronauts Set to Take the Wheel of Lunar Spacecraft for Artemis 2 Test The crew will have to command the vehicle through a series of moves about three hours into the mission. By Passant Rabie Published March 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ‘Most Metal’ Rocket Famous for Setting Itself on Fire Will Make Its Final Launch ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket will conduct a final, classified mission on Thursday after a notable 20-year career. By George Dvorsky Published March 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Boeing Demands Virgin Galactic Destroy All Data From Its Failed Space Tourism Partnership The aerospace company is accusing Virgin Galactic of unlawfully using Boeing's proprietary information for a mothership design. By Passant Rabie Updated March 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Boeing’s Starliner Set for First Astronaut Flight After Engineers Remove a Mile of Flammable Tape Boeing also fixed a nagging parachute issue and is now aiming for a May launch with astronauts aboard. By Passant Rabie Published March 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at the Moon’s Far Side, But Resistance May Be Futile The radio silence on the Moon's far side, ideal for detecting signals from the ancient universe, is increasingly under threat to the dismay of astronomers. By Passant Rabie Published March 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight New Ultrablack Coating on Telescopes Could Reveal More of the Universe A team of scientists from Shanghai developed an ultrablack thin-film coating that could improve the way telescopes absorb light in the depths of space. By Passant Rabie Published March 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Budget Threatens Fate of Veteran X-Ray Telescope, Alarming Astronomers The 2025 budget proposal might be the beginning of the end for the Chandra X-ray telescope, with Hubble also taking a hit. By Passant Rabie Updated March 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
