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Take This, Reusability: Rocket-Powered Space Drone Flies Twice in Just Eight Hours
7 Oct 2024, 05:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Dawn Aerospace announced it flew the Mk-II Aurora uncrewed spaceplane twice in the span of just eight hours
This Is the First-Ever Moon Rover Prototype, Helps Build the Three Artemis LTV Designs
4 Oct 2024, 10:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA has created a test bed vehicle called Ground Test Unit (GTU) to help inform the design of the future Lunar Terrain Vehicle
Anti-Gravity Trick: Europe to Tie Strings to Humans and Make Them Feel Like on the Moon
30 Sep 2024, 10:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The LUNA Gravity-offloading System (aka Puppeteer) is being designed in Europe as a means to simulate lunar gravity conditions here on Earth
Space Telescope Sees Stars So Young There's Twice as Hot as the Ones Today
30 Sep 2024, 06:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Astronomers found with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope a galaxy where stars are so hot they make the gas around them brighter than themselves
Subaru Helps NASA Find a Possible Kuiper Belt Beyond the Kuiper Belt We Already Knew About
26 Sep 2024, 09:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Subaru Telescope in Hawaii was used to find evidence of a mass of objects beyond the believed border of the Kuiper belt
New Glenn Rocket Nails Hot Fire Test Before Hauling a Space Truck to Orbit
24 Sep 2024, 06:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Blue Origin announced it conducted a hot fire test of the second stage of the New Glenn rocket ahead of first launch in November
NASA Wants Atomic Clocks on the Moon, Doesn't Yet Know Where to Put Them
23 Sep 2024, 08:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is trying to wrap its head around the best way to create a Coordinated Lunar Time in light of upcoming exploration missions
Metal Sunflower Meant to Catch Energy on the Moon Deploys in Glorious Fashion
20 Sep 2024, 13:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Lunar Array Mast and Power System (LAMPS) power harvesting tool developed by Honeybee Robotics ends thermal vacuum testing over at the NASA
NASA Giving People $10,000 for Drawings of the Moon and Mars, AI Not Allowed
17 Sep 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA launches the Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge as it seeks for images to promote its exploration projects
Tiny SpaceX Super Heavy Scale Model Went Against Mach 1.4 Gales Inside Wind Tunnel
16 Sep 2024, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA revealed that before the Starship flight number 3 the Super Heavy rocket was tested in a wind tunnel as a scale model
Crew Dragon Leaves Earth with a Crew of Four in the Most Daring All-Civilian Mission Yet
10 Sep 2024, 10:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American private space company SpaceX launched the civilian Polaris Dawn space mission, four people to spend five days in space
NASA Is On a Mission to Remind Us All Our Sun Is Just Another Star
21 Aug 2024, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Full-sun Ultraviolet Rocket SpecTrograph (FURST) sounding rocket instrument will give us the first high-resolution spectra of the Sun in vacuum ultraviolet
NASA Looking to Establish a Logistics System on the Moon, Trash Management Included
20 Aug 2024, 10:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is asking the space industry's help to come up with ideas for a logistics system on the Moon to serve the needs of the future human presence there
First Supermoon of 2024 Coming to the Sky Above You on August 19, They Call It Blue Moon
16 Aug 2024, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first of four consecutive supermoons this year will occur on August 19, it's the Blue Moon that will light up the sky
Space Missions Will Require Cold Storage of Fuel for Months, NASA Pays for Good Ideas
15 Aug 2024, 10:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The second year of the NASA Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) program will focus on solutions for long-term cold storage of fuel
SpaceX To Fly Four Civilians Over Our Planet's Poles in First-of-Its-Kind Mission
13 Aug 2024, 11:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company SpaceX announced its sixth private mission to space. It's called Fram2 and it will take humans over the poles for the first time
World's First Microgravity Space Station Sheds a Few More of Its Secrets
2 Aug 2024, 10:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Vast released a few more details on the Haven-1 Lab space station it plans to send into orbit in 2025
NASA Goes Full Steam Ahead With On-Demand Streaming Service Called NASA+
31 Jul 2024, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it will place all its weight behind the NASA+ on-demand streaming service, drops cable and over-the-air
Sierra Space’s Next-Gen Space Station Will Be an Absolute Beast, Passes Crucial Trial
26 Jul 2024, 03:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At NASA's Marshall Flight Center in Alabama, Sierra Space's 20-foot tall test article completed the 7th in a series of crucial structure integrity tests.
Rolls-Royce Is Making a Nuclear Reactor to Power the Moon
25 Jul 2024, 07:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / British aerospace company Rolls-Royce says it secured a 4.8 million pounds ($6.2 million) award from the UK Space Agency to advance its micro nuclear reactor