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Dawn Aerospace seems to want to play with the big kids as it announces that it will be selling its spaceplane directly to customers the same way that airliner manufacturers market their aircraft, suggesting a major shift in space launch business mode
The White House is withdrawing its nomination of Jared Isaacman to serve as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator, according to several reports.
Blue Origin launches 1st New Zealander to reach space, 5 others on latest New Shepard suborbital flight (video)
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Oregon as speedy solar winds fuel geomagnetic storm conditions.
Credit where it's due - SpaceX is keeping the U.S. ahead of Chinese Communist...
Starship and the Booster will eventually each be made about 20% more powerful. There will be versions by the end of the year that will be improved by about 5-10%.
I would pay dearly for young people to feel what it was like to be a scientifically minded child in the 1960s. It was a special and beautiful moment.
Flight 9 wasn't a success, but it wasn't an outright failure. Superheavy becomes the second rocket design to reuse a propulsively landed booster, and while the booster wasn't expected to fly again it did complete its mission. The Starship upper stage
SpaceX launched its ninth Starship test flight.
A scar-like coronal hole has opened up on the Sun across the solar equator, and the high-speed-stream of solar wind emanating from it is expected to hit Earth May 28th-29th.
The US Air Force is investing in a transport system that could one day deliver 100 tonnes for cargo or personnel by rocket to any spot on Earth in under 90 minutes. Unimaginatively called Rocket Cargo, it may begin preliminary tests next year.
SpaceX is aiming to launch its Starship Flight 9 test mission no earlier than Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT), but only if conditions allow.
FAA has approved Starship's return to flight.
The Moon in the image is lit up by light reflected off the surface of Earth.
Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468
Bizarre plan for world's first SPACESCRAPER that will be built UPSIDE DOWN and dangle from asteroid over Dubai
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX said SpaceX Starlink satellites can be a next-generation Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solution.
"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager."
"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from."
Virtus Solis wants to group satellites into massive arrays--100,000 satellites for 100MW--allowing for a highly scalable energy platform. Arrays can grow to 20 Gigawatt or more.
...potentially leaving the US in the dust
SpaceX Starship flight 9 could launch as soon as Wednesday, May 21 based upon a Coast Guard notice.
Local Texas outlet KUT News reported that Boca Chica Village residents voted overwhelmingly--212 to 6--in favor of incorporating Elon Musk's SpaceX launch site as an official city, now named Starbase, Texas.
It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under four months and Pluto to under four years.
NASA Veteran Astronaut Bill McArthur to Command Inaugural Titans Spaceplane Flight and First Titans Space Station Mission
The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details.
"Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond.
There are two propulsion experiments on the Rogue Systems OTP2 satellite.
Scientists have found a nearby planet that appears to be teeming with life, and now Earth's most advanced computer programs revealed what it could look like.
Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King, and a crew of celebrity passengers are under fire after their 10-minute Blue Origin "space flight" sparked massive backlash online.
