Thanks to Musk’s preference for sharing his ideas directly with the public, SpaceX is inundated with all kinds of proposals from citizen scientists and space-exploration enthusiasts – some of which are practical and some outlandish. This latest proposal definitely straddles these two categories! In an animation shared via Twitter, 3D […]
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Meteorites Hold Early Atmospheres From Across the Solar System
Since they were formed in the early solar system, many meteorites offer an unadulterated view into what that solar system was made out of, or what happened to it as we reported before. Recently a team of researchers led by Maggie Thompson at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) took […]
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U.S. Army approves plans for a future ‘tactical space layer’
One of the desired capabilities for the tactical space layer is positioning, navigation and timing.
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NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Astronauts on the Moon!
As part of the Artemis program, NASA is gearing up to send the “first woman and next man” to the Moon by 2024. Central to this is the development of the Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V that took the Apollo astronauts to the […]
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NRO to sign deals with commercial providers of satellite radar imagery
NRO’s Pete Muend: ‘One of the things that we are moving out on is the potential to purchase commercial radar imagery’
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Watch the first footage of a helicopter on Mars
There’s new video of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, captured by the Perseverance rover’s cameras and posted to Twitter by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The copter had its first flight earlier today, lifting 10 feet off the Martian surface for 39 seconds and marking the first flight of a powered […]