Astranis’ newly announced Perceptor spacecraft will monitor satellite activity in geostationary orbit, a distant and increasingly contested domain.
A radiation-shielding vest aced its Artemis I lunar test in 2022, suggesting that it could protect astronauts on long-duration missions to the moon or Mars.
On Aug. 12, 2005, NASA launched its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission.
SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink global internet satellite constellation to orbit from California on Aug. 11, wrapping the second Starlink launch of the day.
SpaceX started out as a launch company, but it has been transitioning into an artificial intelligence outfit —one that’s poised to make huge profits in the coming years, Elon Musk says.
SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast today (Aug. 11).
Current space exploration aims to establish permanent structures on the Moon, Mars, and eventually other planetary bodies. Successful lunar missions depend on understanding lunar regolith, the granular material covering the Moon’s surface, whose behav…
Without property rights in space, one of the most important economic incentives for the commercial development — and ultimately the settlement — of celestial bodies is missing.
President Eisenhower inspects the Discoverer 13 capsule after its return to Earth.
Operating a million or more data centers in space would mean a massive increase in air pollution from rocket launches and concentrations of toxic ash from reentering satellites.