The Amazon Rainforest often referred to as the “planet’s lungs,” the Amazon rainforest has been subject to a series of devastating fires that the National Institute for Space Research says amounts to more than 75,000 incidents this year alone. Many are calling these fires a deliberate act on the part of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, […]
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 two-stage rocket to orbit on Tuesday, offering a free ride for the AMOS-17 communications satellite. It was the third flight for the Falcon 9 booster and to get the satellite to orbit SpaceX had to do away with the booster — so we don’t get to see SpaceX pull off […]
SpaceX announced a new business strategy on Monday that indicates the company wants to adapt: It’s establishing a “rideshare program” for small satellites. Under the new initiative, SpaceX will dedicate “regularly scheduled” launches of its mighty Falcon 9 rocket to carrying large batches of smallsats, rather than focusing on one large, primary payload. SpaceX is […]
One week after a “technical snag” forced the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to delay the launch of its Chandrayaan-2, the lunar mission launched today. Chandrayaan-2 was launched at 14:43 local time (09:13 GMT) from the Sriharikota space station. India’s space chief said his agency had “bounced back with flying colours” after the aborted first […]
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 news about the country’s next trip to the Moon has been giving. Both Lockheed Martin and NASA have confirmed completion of the Orion crew capsule that will play a key role in Artemis 1, the uncrewed mission that will fly past the Moon while verifying Orion, the Space Launch […]
The same day as the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. A three-person crew made up of NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are heading to space on top of a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan. The trio will be joining […]
Google’s latest homepage Doodle is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with an animated video commemorating the historic occasion. Google recruited Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins to narrate the video. The video is longer than a usual Google Doodle, almost five minutes, but it’s worth it for Collins’ […]
Just ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, you’ll have another way to tune into NASA TV’s live stream. Hulu will carry the feed on its live TV service as of July 19th, and a selection of video-on-demand material will arrive on the platform this week. _________________| ,————– | | | […]
The US isn’t the only country that wants to create a dedicated space force within its military. French President Emmanuel Macron has greenlit plans to create a space command within his country’s air force. Beginning this year, the new space command will form part of the Air Force, which will later be renamed to the […]
SpaceX reveals that its Starship test vehicle will target launching commercial flights as early as 2021. According to SpaceX VP of commercial sales Jonathan Hofeller, the company is hoping to send it to space for its first commercial mission in 2021. He revealed at an event in Indonesia that SpaceX is already in discussions with […]