ScienceSpaceflight Odysseus Lander Touches Down on the Moon The Intuitive Machines spacecraft is the first American lunar lander since Apollo. By Passant Rabie Published February 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Not a Scene From Star Wars: This Is a Real Satellite Falling to Earth ERS-2 made an uncontrolled reentry on Wednesday and landed in the North Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii. By Jody Serrano Published February 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight How to Watch Today’s Attempted Moon Landing Live The Odysseus lunar lander is set for a Thursday touchdown, as Intuitive Machines aims to become the first private company to pull off a soft landing. By Passant Rabie Updated February 21, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Odysseus Lander Snaps Gorgeous Photos of Earth Ahead of Moon Landing The commercial lunar lander is targeting a Thursday touchdown on the Moon, hoping to break a streak of failures. By Passant Rabie Published February 20, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Are You Kinda Healthy and Over 30? Apply to Join NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission A lucky four-person crew will spend a year in a 1,700-square-foot habitat. By Passant Rabie Published February 17, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Fire-in-Space Experiment Ends in Flames The Saffire experiment set fire to a Cygnus cargo vehicle in orbit to learn how flames behave in space. By Passant Rabie Published February 16, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight After Months of Being Stuck in Orbit, Space Drugs Are Finally Coming Home At long last, Varda Space has a license to bring back its orbiting drug manufacturing capsule, which was earlier barred from Earth reentry. By Passant Rabie Updated February 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight We Finally Know How Much of That Asteroid OSIRIS-REx Grabbed in Space Engineers struggled to open the sample canister for months, but it was all worth it for twice the amount of asteroid they thought they were getting. By Passant Rabie Published February 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ‘Odie’ Lander Begins Its Journey to the Moon. Here’s What’s Next Intuitive Machines aims to be the first private company to land on the Moon, but it must navigate a series of critical and precise steps to achieve success. By George Dvorsky Published February 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Elon Musk Is Moving SpaceX to Texas After Spat With Delaware Judge The world's richest man is done with Delaware after being at risk of losing his $55.8 billion pay package at Tesla. By Passant Rabie Published February 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Tiny ISS Robot Performs First Simulated Surgery in Space A remote surgeon guided spaceMIRA as it sliced through rubber bands 250 miles away from Earth. By Passant Rabie Published February 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Mysterious National Security Threat Hyped By Republicans Likely Nukes In Space: Report Is the hyperventilating in Congress all part of a plan to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? By Matt Novak Updated February 14, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight There’s Trouble on Mars for NASA’s Perseverance Rover Engineers are trying to resolve an issue with one of the rover's instruments, which lets Perseverance shoot lasers at rocks. By Passant Rabie Published February 14, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX Launches Private Odysseus Lander to the Moon Intuitive Machines is hoping to become the first private company to touchdown on the lunar surface after several recent failures. By Passant Rabie Updated February 13, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight A New Mission to the Moon Is Set, But Can We Just Not With the Space Garbage? Early Wednesday, a rocket carrying Intuitive Machines' lunar lander will blast off, loaded with NASA gear, but also some dubious items destined for the Moon. By Passant Rabie Updated February 13, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX to Deorbit 100 Starlink Satellites Due to Detected Flaw The removal of so many satellites at once is unprecedented, highlighting the challenges of huge satellite constellations. By George Dvorsky Published February 13, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s New ‘Hybrid Antenna’ Boosts Links to Deep Space For the first time, a hybrid antenna successfully received both radio and laser signals, in what's a big leap in space communications technology. By Passant Rabie Published February 12, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight After an Explosive First Attempt, Japan Will Try Again to Launch the H3 Rocket Japan's H3 rocket is set for a pivotal launch this week, aiming to reignite the nation’s space ambitions. By George Dvorsky Published February 12, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Texas Billionaire’s Push for Land Swap With Elon’s SpaceX Is Total Crap SpaceX is trying to acquire 43 new acres, but the land it's offering in return is already protected. This means Texans won't see any new conserved land areas. By Passant Rabie Published February 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Next-Generation Spaceplanes Are the Cutting-Edge Evolution of the Space Shuttle Dream Spaceplanes seemed out of favor when the Shuttle was retired in 2011. They now seem to be making a comeback. Oluwamayokun Adetoro, James Campbell, The Conversation Published February 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
