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Inmarsat not for sale, CEO says
Space News - 3 Aug 2018 18:23
Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce said Wednesday the two purchase offers Inmarsat received from EchoStar this summer priced the company too low to take seriously. SpaceNews.com
Space launch vehicles eyed by the military to move supplies around the world
Space News - 3 Aug 2018 01:39
Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart: If the military wanted to transport cargo across the globe, the technology is available to do that, but a lot of planning and engineering would be required. SpaceNews.com
Five Teams Compete to Design a 3D Printed Mars Habitat for NASA
Universe Today - 3 Aug 2018 23:51
As part of their 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge, NASA recently awarded five teams with a total of $100,000 for their designs for Martian habitats. The post Five Teams Compete to Design a 3D Printed Mars Habitat ...
NASA assigns astronauts to first commercial crew missions
Space News - 3 Aug 2018 18:58
NASA announced Aug. 3 the assignment of eight agency astronauts, a mix of veterans and rookies, as well as one company astronaut to fly on the first set of commercial crew missions by Boeing and SpaceX. SpaceNews.com
Meet the Astronauts: Here's Who Will Fly on SpaceX's and Boeing's First Crewed Flights
SPACE.com - 3 Aug 2018 18:27NASA Assigns Crews to First Commercial Spacecraft Flights
SpaceRef - 3 Aug 2018 18:11
NASA introduced to the world on Friday the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station....
NASA Announces First Astronaut Crews to Fly on Boeing and SpaceX Spaceships
SPACE.com - 3 Aug 2018 17:40Trump Hails Astronauts That Will Fly on SpaceX and Boeing Spaceships. And Space Force, Too?
SPACE.com - 3 Aug 2018 17:33Blend of novices, veterans to fly on first private US spaceships
Phys.org - 3 Aug 2018 17:31
NASA on Friday announced the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019, a mix of novices and space shuttle veterans.
NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft
NASA Breaking news - 3 Aug 2018 16:36MEO startup Methera plans "high density" HTS constellation
Space News - 3 Aug 2018 15:47
In medium Earth orbit, the only system providing satellite broadband today is SES Networks' constellation of 16 O3b satellites. A British startup with its own 16-satellite constellation idea wants to change that. SpaceNe...
Week in images
ESA - 3 Aug 2018 15:36
Our week through the lens: 30 July - 3 August 2018
How Boeing's Commercial CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Works
SPACE.com - 3 Aug 2018 15:30VLA detects possible extrasolar planetary-mass magnetic powerhouse
Phys.org - 3 Aug 2018 15:17
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. The object, about a dozen times ...
Hubble Probes the Distant Past
PTTU - 3 Aug 2018 15:14
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:
"Unique?" --Did a Mutation of the Homo sapiens' Language Gene Race Through Ancient Populations (Today's Top Science Headline)
The Daily Galaxy - 3 Aug 2018 15:05
The evolution of human language was once thought to have hinged on changes to a single gene that were so beneficial that they raced through ancient human populations. But an analysis now suggests that this gene, FOXP2, d...
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner: A 21st Century Space Capsule in Photos
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One cool camera--LSST's cryostat assembly completed
Phys.org - 3 Aug 2018 13:50
Work on the camera for the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has reached a major milestone with the completion and delivery of the camera's fully integrated cryostat. With 3.2 gigapixels, the LSST camera will...
Microscopic 'Speck' of Asteroid Dust Gets an Incredible Close-Up (Photo)
SPACE.com - 3 Aug 2018 13:50Captain America on Mars
Scientific American - 3 Aug 2018 13:30
The Marvel hero's origin story has implications for human adaptation to living on other planets --