2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (550+ words) If you ask most satellite companies aside from SpaceX, they will tell you the world doesn’t have enough capacity for launching payloads into orbit. This is despite the blistering launch cadence we’ve seen around the world in recent years, led…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (617+ words) Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships. The European Space Agency is moving “full steam ahead” with development of a robotic mission to Venus after NASA officials determined they…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (436+ words) “We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence.” All of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere. This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet, at a high-profile…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (178+ words) 3D-printed aluminum eggshell arrays filled with water proved more effective at impact resistance. Another popular demonstration is the classic egg-drop challenge, in which students must figure out how best to protect a single egg from breaking when dropped from a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (765+ words) “Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is.” The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (404+ words) “Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there.” The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (685+ words) He reported from space that only “fat” Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness. The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyama was also the first commercially sponsored cosmonaut and the world’s first journalist to file reports while on a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (655+ words) Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership. Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (867+ words) NASA’s cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn’t include the helicopters. For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the agency’s near-term…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (411+ words) “We could really be facing the great filter.” Philip Johnston is someone who thinks a lot about the Fermi paradox. A mathematician and physicist from the United Kingdom, Johnston has gained some notoriety lately in the space community as one…...