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Capella Space intends to offer improved image resolution and quality with a new generation of synthetic aperture radar satellites, called Acadia, scheduled to launch in early 2023. The post Capella unveils a new generati...

With the satellite network being a key component of modern life on Earth, space is now a major battleground for countries looking to get ahead of their competitors.

Gen. James Dickinson, head uf U.S. Space Command, said space traffic management should be transferred to a civilian agency as soon as possible The post Tracking debris and space traffic a growing challenge for U.S. milit...

Musk just tweeted an image of the BN7 Super Heavy Booster successfully conducting a static fire test! The post SpaceX Super Heavy Fires Just one of its Engines. Imagine What it’ll be Like When it Fires all 33 appeared ...

SpaceX has lost its bid for nearly $900 million in rural broadband subsidies for its Starlink broadband service. The post SpaceX loses $900 million in rural broadband subsidies appeared first on SpaceNews.

A new solar activity cycle that may be stronger than forecast poses challenges for smallsat operators keeping their spacecraft in orbit and functioning. The post Increased solar activity creates new challenges for smalls...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12).

A surprise solar storm bashed Earth on Aug. 7 and 8, triggering an appearance of the mysterious glowing phenomenon called STEVE.

BlackSky will launch a new imaging satellite in 2023 that will be used exclusively by the U.S. Army for tests and experiments. The post U.S. Army a key customer of BlackSky's next-generation imaging satellite appeared fi...

The first launch of North Korea's powerful new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this spring apparently didn't go well after all.

NASA will hold a trio of media teleconferences the week of Aug. 14 to preview the science and technology payloads that will fly as part of the agency's Artemis I flight test.

Astronomers have long sought the launch sites for some of the highest-energy protons in our galaxy. Now a study using 12 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirms that one supernova remnant is ju...

Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn't currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads.

An Aug. 6 close encounter saw hundreds of Starlink satellites get uncomfortably close to debris generated in a Russian anti-satellite test in November 2021.

Eleven organizations were selected by DARPA to help develop laser terminals and technical standards to connect satellites in space. The post DARPA selects companies for inter-satellite laser communications project appear...

Ever since humans could first observe sunspots about 400 years ago, we've been using them to try to define the solar cycle. Approximately every 11 years, solar activity such as sunspots and solar flares ebbs and flows, c...

An evocative new image captured by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i reveals a pair of interacting spiral galaxies--NGC 4568 and NGC 4567--as they begin to clash and merge. These galaxies are entangled by their mutua...

A new animation shows what Rocket Lab's totally-reusable rocket will look like when it starts sending satellites to space. The post Hazegrayart Shows how Rocket Lab's Reusable Neutron Rocket Could Work appeared first on ...

La NASA hace un llamamiento a estudiantes de secundaria y preparatoria para que participen en el segundo reto estudiantil TechRise de la agencia, que invita a equipos de estudiantes a desarrollar, construir y lanzar expe...

A NASA cubesat was removed from a recent rideshare launch opportunity on a U.S. Space Force mission because the spacecraft could not meet guidelines for deorbiting at the end of its life. The post NASA cubesat bumped fro...

Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the moon. It was not until Galileo's time, however, that scientists really began study it. Over the course of nearly five centuries, researchers put forward numerous,...

There's only one known specimen for this species of katydids -- but it's preserved wings give hints to its song structure.