Space

SpaceX will use Microsoft Azure’s orbital emulator — a digital environment that allows the user to visualize an entire satellite architecture, test satellite designs and artificial intelligence algorithms. 

“We’re discussing with the Air Force the path forward for certification,” said Megan Mitchell, Blue Origin’s director of government and legislative affairs. 

NASA astronaut Christina Koch reflected on her participation in the first all-woman spacewalk ahead of its one-year anniversary on Sunday (Oct. 18). 

An astronaut’s photograph of the Earth is set to represent her and her crewmates’ new mission, almost four years to the day after the image was first shared with the public.

January 31, 2021, will mark 50 years since the launch of Apollo 14. This historic mission was the first to broadcast a color television signal from the surface of the Moon and marked the heroic return to space of America’s first astronaut, Alan Shepard, who famously hit two golf balls […]

NASA will hold a series of briefings today (Oct. 19) to discuss the upcoming attempt by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe to collect samples of asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx will “tag” Bennu on Tuesday (Oct. 20).