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Extreme metamaterial ceramic solar sails survive a close pass of our sun to reach speeds of 60-70AU per year which is over 0.1% of light speed. Theis propel low mass spacecraft using a dive to extreme proximity to the sun (just 2-5 solar radii).
About halfway through their historic mission, a pair of NASA astronauts are preparing for their return
SpaceX successfully launched its 11th mission of the year, lofting a next-generation global positioning satellite into space for the U.S. Space Force.
A star that shined with 2.5 million times the light of our Sun has disappeared from the night sky.
NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken will begin a spacewalk in support of space station assembly, maintenance and upgrades.
The value of movie memorabilia is invariably linked to the importance of the film it comes from, with key props from the greatest films of all time always bringing auction prices commensurate with their time in the spotlight.
People know that computers became a multi-trillion dollar industry because it rode the exponential growth in power of Moore's Law.
A GLOBAL MAGNETIC ANOMALY: On June 23rd, Earth's quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe.
Space Adventures, a U.S. space tourism company, has booked two passenger seats on a Russian Soyuz capsule headed to the International Space Station in 2023, and one of those tourists will take part in a spacewalk.
RSC Energia and Space Adventures, Inc plan to fly two tourists to the Russian section of the International Space Station in 2023, with one of them embarking on a space walk with a cosmonaut during the short visit.
It flew higher and faster in the skies over New Mexico.
SpaceX is standing down from the launch of its next batch of Starlink satellites to allow time for additional preflight checks of the Falcon 9.
NASA has released a time-lapse video of our Sun that condenses 10 full years of solar observations into a gorgeous 61 minute movie.
'Robot dog named Zeus' is seen inspecting SpaceX's rocket test site in Texas after a Starship tank exploded during a cryogenic pressure test
Relativity Space is adding another launchpad to its one in Florida
The SpaceX Starship will be fully reusable and could be used for point to point transportation of cargo and people on Earth, flights to space and as habitats in space.
Elon Musk almost crying speaking at SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 post-launch Press Conference right after successful mission on May 30, 2020. Elon is extremely emotinal.
It will act as a travel agency for trips to the space station.
SpaceX Will Use Its Own Steel Alloy in 6 Months and Will Build Spaceports Over the Coming Years
SpaceX has a fleet of three prototype Starships (SN5, SN6, and SN7). The SN5 and SN6 bodies are fully stacked. The SN7 has survived a 7.6 bar pressure test.
Sunday's epic annular solar eclipse explained!
Yes, Mercury will appear to move backwards. No, that doesn't mean your electronics or your relationships will fail.
Amazing images of the Butterfly and the Jewel Bug nebulae have been captured in unprecedented detail by the Hubble Space Telescope, according to NASA.
Test flights of the new "Spaceship Neptune" could begin early next year.
Elon Musk says SpaceX has to improve 1000% to 10000% over Falcon 9 to get to what Starship needs to be.
Moving beyond Earth orbit to lunar orbit
Elon Musk's SpaceX is building floating spaceports at sea to launch rockets into space and hypersonic flights around Earth.
Back in February, the European Space Agency and NASA launched the Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft developed in collaboration to study the Sun in entirely new ways.
The sounding rocket Momo-F5 crashed into the ocean instead.
Liftoff occurred just over an hour before sunrise in Florida on June 13.
