Space News
NASA Announces $100,000 Winners of Virtual 3D-Printed Mars Habitats
SPACE.com - 6 Apr 2019 15:02
NASA picked three teams to share a $100,000 award from a competition to make virtual Martian habitats.
NASA Approves Extension of Boeing Starliner Commercial Crew Test Flight
SPACE.com - 6 Apr 2019 15:01
A day after Boeing confirmed delays in test flights of its commercial crew vehicle, NASA said that the company's crewed test flight will get an extended stay at the station when it does fly.
Scientists set to unveil first picture of a black hole
Phys.org - 6 Apr 2019 13:02
The world, it seems, is soon to see the first picture of a black hole.
Veteran NASA Astronauts Inducted into US Astronaut Hall of Fame
NASA Breaking news - 6 Apr 2019 23:27Debris from anti-satellite test no danger to ISS, India says
Phys.org - 6 Apr 2019 23:01
India insisted Saturday that debris from its anti-satellite missile test was not a danger to the International Space Station, in a rebuff to criticism from the US space agency.
SpaceX's Starhopper Prototype for Starship Reaches End of Its Rope In Test Hop
SPACE.com - 6 Apr 2019 22:58
SpaceX's squat Starhopper testbed for the future Starship spacecraft reached the end of its tether in an April 5 test.
Are Small Stars a Bit Useless?
Scientific American - 6 Apr 2019 21:00
For photon-eating life, smaller stars are unavoidably inferior providers–according to thermodynamics --
NASA Weekly ISS Space to Ground Report for April 5, 2019
SpaceRef - 6 Apr 2019 20:56
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....
Foust Forward | Commercial space reform still a work in progress
Space News - 6 Apr 2019 17:58
Despite a fast and furious pace, there are some overdue milestones for both the Commerce Department and the rest of the government. SpaceNews.com
Physicists Stuffed a Ghostly 'Skyrmion' Full of 'Antiskyrmions'
SPACE.com - 6 Apr 2019 14:52
The ghostly 'quasiparticles' have barely any material existence, but physicists are still managing to manipulate them into uncanny shapes.
Relativity Signs Contract with Telesat for Launching LEO Constellation
SPACE.com - 6 Apr 2019 02:00
Small launch vehicle developer Relativity announced April 5 a contract with Telesat to launch a portion of that company's low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation.