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SpaceX could attempt a long-awaited static-fire test of all 33 Raptor engines in its Super Heavy booster as soon as next week, one of the final technical milestones before an orbital launch attempt, a company executive s...

A NASA asteroid smallsat mission that lost its original ride to space is considering alternative missions while also accommodating performance issues with its propulsion system. The post Janus considering alternative mis...

The gaming sandbox includes rockets, airplanes, cars and anything else that you want to subject to realistic physics.

The U.S. has sanctioned a Chinese small satellite manufacturer for allegedly supplying Russia's Wagner Group with radar satellite imagery of Ukraine to support its combat operations The post U.S. sanctions Chinese satell...

The JWST is having a problem. One of its instruments, the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS,) has gone offline. The NIRISS performs spectroscopy on exoplanet atmospheres, among other things. It’s b...

Top acquisition executive Frank Calvelli said the Space Force must focus on advancing satellites systems for military operations on Earth The post Supporting military operations on Earth to remain U.S. Space Force's top ...

NASA has funded a new set of visionary concepts for space exploration that could one day prove useful -- and perhaps even transformative.

Lynk Global is close to completing a ground station in Hawaii as part of plans to connect its growing constellation of small satellites to standard smartphones this spring. The post Lynk Global finalizing ground station ...

Watch asteroid 2023 BU make a close flyby of Earth in images shared by the Virtual Telescope Project taken when the rock was just 13,670 miles (22,000 kilometers) from the surface.

L3Harris announced Jan. 26 it delivered the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 to the U.S. Air Force The post Satellite billed as the 'future GPS' begins key tests appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by 2027. The post NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space appeared first on Universe Today.

Now that the Perseverance rover has dropped off ten regolith and rock sample tubes for a future sample return mission to retrieve, the plans for such a mission are coming together. The mission is a joint venture between ...

Europe's mission to explore three icy moons of Jupiter is all set to begin its voyage to the outer solar system.

On Oct. 5, 2020, the rapidly rotating corpse of a long-dead star about 30,000 light years from Earth changed speeds. In a cosmic instant, its spinning slowed. And a few days later, it abruptly started emitting radio wave...

Christopher Kubasik, CEO of L3Harris Technologies, said Jan. 27 regulators continue to review the company's proposed $4.7 billion acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne and expects the merger to close in 2023. The post L3Harr...

China last year performed 64 orbital rocket launches and finished building its own space station, but the country is planning an even busier year for 2023.

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image. Both stars lie in the Or...

One of the main jobs for the Perseverance Mars rover past few weeks has been collecting carefully selected samples of Mars rock and soil. These samples have been placed and sealed in special sample tubes and left in well...

Students from Choctaw Nation Head Start, Jones Academy Elementary, and seven area public schools in Durant, Oklahoma, will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Statio...

Astronomers may finally know what delivers the gas that feeds the powerful phenomena surrounding active black holes.

The mission to return Martian samples back to Earth will use a European 2.5 meter-long robotic arm to pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary deliver...

An excellent choice for entry-level astronomers the Celestron SkyMaster 12x60 binos are great for long-range terrestrial observing.