The headline number from Starship’s 13th flight is not 20 satellites. It is one word in SpaceX’s own flight report: intact. Starship lifted off from Starbase in Texas at 5:51pm on Friday, after delays and engine replacements pushed the attempt back. It…
Europe’s ambition to stop hitching rides on someone else’s spacecraft now has a rough price tag. The Exploration Company, the Munich-based startup building what it bills as Europe’s first reusable space capsule, is in talks to raise at least $300mn, ac…
The moon is about the size of Jupiter, and it orbits a brown dwarf instead of a regular planet.
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster’s rocket engines.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others want enormous orbital data center constellations, prompting warnings over atmospheric pollution, debris, and an astronomy problem satellites are already making worse.
Astronomers have found strong evidence for a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf, potentially marking the first convincing detection of a moon beyond our solar system.
If there’s a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
Google spent years as a low-key backer of SpaceX. This week it showed what that patience is worth. In a quarterly filing, Alphabet said its Google unit holds $94.1bn in SpaceX shares, following the rocket company’s record IPO. Google was an early inves…
When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy’s most precise disappearing acts to date. The telescope will carry the first space-bound “active” coronagraph, an instrument that effectively erases most of the light from a star during photography. It will allow astronomers…
NASA researchers also tested out the Psyche spacecraft’s other instruments to make sure they were working.