Science Bezos vs. Musk: Blue Origin Files Complaint Over SpaceX’s Florida Launch Plans The company wants to limit the number of Starship rockets SpaceX can launch from Kennedy Space Center. By Passant Rabie Updated July 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The Latest Threat to the Ozone Layer: Elon’s Starlink Satellite Megaconstellation The reentry of defunct satellites is anticipated to increase the amount of harmful chemicals in the atmosphere by nearly 650% over natural levels. By Passant Rabie Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight A Parachute Failed to Deploy During Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Comeback Mission On May 19, during its first crewed flight in two years, one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate, prompting an investigation. By Passant Rabie Published June 4, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Bezos’ Space Tourism Venture Set for Restart After Explosion Forced 2-Year Hiatus Blue Origin will launch its first crew of astronauts since a liftoff malfunction grounded its New Shepard rocket in 2022. By Passant Rabie Published May 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029. By Passant Rabie Published April 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Pentagon Mission Will Include Test of Blue Origin’s ‘Space Truck’ With the New Glenn rocket moving closer to launch and plans to land on the Moon next year, Jeff Bezos' company is finally showing signs of life. By Passant Rabie Published March 20, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Former Blue Origin Employees Want to Harvest Helium-3 From the Moon The company's founders, including an Apollo 17 astronaut, just rounded up $15 million to fund their venture. By Passant Rabie Published March 16, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace SpaceX Photobombs the Moon and More of the Week’s Best Space Images Plus, an incoming comet and stunning new views from the ISS. By George Dvorsky Published March 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight When It Comes to Exploring Space, We’re Still Stuck in the Stone Age A trio of clumsy Moon missions to start the year has me reflecting on humanity’s limited ability to explore and work in space. By George Dvorsky Published March 7, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Could Blue Origin Actually Beat SpaceX to the Moon? Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, aiming for a Moon landing next year, has established an ambitious schedule that could leapfrog Elon Musk’s SpaceX. By George Dvorsky Published March 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
Tech NewsCulture 9 Retrofuturistic Predictions That Came True Bold predictions from pop culture's past may have inspired today's state-of-the-art technology. By Maxwell Zeff Published January 31, 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 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 What to Know About the New Rocket Launching a Major Moon Mission on Monday United Launch Alliance's 200-foot-tall Vulcan Centaur—its first new rocket design in 18 years—is a potent combination of strength and versatility. By George Dvorsky Published January 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Rocket Set to Launch Monday, a Challenge to SpaceX The 200-foot Vulcan Centaur, in development since 2014, is set for its first flight and poised to make a big impact in the industry. By George Dvorsky Updated January 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Blue Origin Rebounds With New Shepard’s Successful Launch After Previous Mission Failure The NS-24 mission carried 33 payloads to suborbital heights during an uncrewed flight on Monday. By Passant Rabie Published December 19, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX’s Starship Explodes—Twice—and More Top Moments in Spaceflight for 2023 The year offered a roller coaster of emotions, from rocket explosions and Moon crashes, to record-setting launches and the discovery of a triple asteroid. By George Dvorsky Updated December 15, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Blue Origin Finally Ready to Launch New Shepard Rocket After Last Year’s Fiery Anomaly Jeff Bezos' space company is targeting a Monday launch window for a cargo mission. By Passant Rabie Published December 13, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight 2024 Will Be an Epic Year in Spaceflight It will be a year filled with exploration, innovation, wonder—and no shortage of risk. By George Dvorsky Published December 9, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Amazon Teams Up With SpaceX in Unlikely Satellite Alliance Confronted with a regulatory deadline, Amazon—in a twist of competitive fate—has secured three launches aboard rockets from its rival SpaceX. By George Dvorsky Published December 4, 2023 | Comments (0)
