This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into Space
Satellites go through a lot. As they hurtle around our planet at up to 17,000 miles an hour they must cope with the extreme vacuum of space and vast temperature …
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What has China’s mysterious Shenlong space plane released 600km above the Earth?
But it has not made any kind of manoeuvre since its release, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and space activity tracker at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. “It may …
Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia …
Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit
The Victus Haze mission is more complicated than Victus Nox, involving two prime contractors, two spacecraft, and two rocket launches from different spaceports, all timed to occur with short timelines …
Delta IV Heavy rocket takes to the skies one last time in breathtaking launch: photos
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a classified spy satellite blasted off from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, at …
Orbit Fab unveils $30K port to refuel satellites
Orbit Fab wants to build “gas stations” for satellites — which means it needs the gas cap, a mechanism for transferring propellant from an orbital tanker to the customer spacecraft. …
Bridgit Mendler’s New Space Startup Already Has $6.3 Million
Ready or not, Bridgit Mendler is setting out to disrupt the space industry. On Monday, the former Disney TV star and pop singer announced that she has co-founded Northwood Space, …
SpaceX Launched Military Satellites Designed to Track Hypersonic Missiles
Two prototype satellites for the Missile Defense Agency and four missile-tracking satellites for the US Space Force rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Wednesday from Florida’s Space Coast. …
Intel official warns of serious national security threat
By Matthew Lee, Kevin Freking and Ellen Knickmeyer | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. has gathered highly sensitive intelligence about Russian anti-satellite weapons that has been shared in recent …
NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future
Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the world have stubbornly guarded their secrets: aerosols and phytoplankton. Today, …