Boeing subsidiary to build two new Virgin Galactic mother...
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 6, 2021 Virgin Galactic confirmed Wednesday it is retaining Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two next generation mot...

Elon Musk had twins with company exec last year: report
Washington (AFP) July 7, 2022 Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk had twins last year with an executive at one of his companies, online outlet Insider re...

The hawk has landed: Braking mid-air to prioritize safety...
Oxford UK (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that hawks control their flight to ensure the safest landing conditions when ...

Smart earbud will measure how astronauts sleep
Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 Sleep is important for our health and well-being, and bad sleep can negatively impact our attention span, memory, decision...

The path of most resistance could help limit bone loss du...
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 Astronauts that have returned after spaceflights over three months may show signs of incomplete bone recovery even after o...

Terran Orbital completes NASA Pathfinder TD 3 bus commiss...
Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) reports that its Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite has complete...

NTU Singapore successfully launches its 10th satellite in...
Singapore (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 Singapore's latest satellite, designed and built by students from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), i...

NASA program brings big benefits to Big Ten School
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 When Indiana University (IU) introduced the NASA Technology Transfer University (T2U) program at its Kelley School of Busines...

Virgin Orbit launches 'Straight Up' mission for US Space ...
Mojave CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2022 Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) has confirmed the success of its fourth consecutive satellite launch mission. This launch, named Str...

Virgin Orbit mission success brings UK launch another ste...
London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2022 Virgin Orbit's next satellite launch will take place from the UK, following the success of the "Straight Up" mission, which lif...

NASA, SpaceX target new launch date for commercial cargo ...
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Thursday, July 14, for launch of the CRS-25 commercial resupply services miss...

Relativity and Oneweb sign multi-launch agreement for Ter...
Long Beach Ca (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 Relativity Space has signed a multi-year, multi-launch Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with OneWeb, the global space-based c...

Floating in space might be fun, but TBone study shows it'...
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 Ever wondered if you have anything in common with an astronaut? Turns out there are 206 things - your bones. It's these pa...

Airbus to provide 42 satellite platforms and services to ...
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Inc., has been contracted to provide 42 satellite platforms as well as assembly, integration,...

Kongsberg to acquire NanoAvionics; AST SpaceMobile sells ...
Kongsberg, Norway (SPX) Jul 05, 2022 Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace (Kongsberg) has entered into an agreement to acquire Lithuanian smallsat mission integra...

Rocket Lab Moon Mission for NASA a Success
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jul 04, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully deployed a pathfinding satellite for NASA, setting it on a course to th...

Eyeing Kukenan - Sols 3519-3524
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 01, 2022 Curiosity is continuing to proceed through our pre-planned checklist of activities that we've made for drill campaigns. The te...

My Favorite Martian Image: 'Enchanted' Rocks at Jezero Cr...
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2022 Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance's Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she's looking for. Ask a...

Historic Mars mission completes all preset tasks
Beijing (XNA) Jun 30, 2022 Tianwen 1, China's historic Mars mission, has accomplished all its preset scientific tasks, according to the China National Space ...

Digging into our new drill hole: Sols 3517-3518
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2022 After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new drill target...

Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2022 NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help. They've organized a project call...

NASA's Curiosity takes inventory of key life ingredient o...
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2022 Scientists using data from NASA's Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon - a key component in the molecules of lif...

NASA Experiment Suggests Need to Dig Deep for Evidence of...
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2022 According to a new NASA laboratory experiment, rovers may have to dig about 6.6 feet (two meters) or more under the Martian s...

A Long History of Flowing Water Recorded in Clay-Bearing ...
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 A region on Mars may have been repeatedly habitable until relatively late in Martian history, says a new paper by Planetary Scie...

NASA's Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Ma...
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2022 Striking rock formations documented by the rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet's ancient past. For th...

Curiosity latest drilling attempt a success - Sols 3514-3516
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 The MSL team is very happy this week, because our first drill attempt since last November was successful! This Front Hazcam im...

Multiple Lab Analyses of Antarctic Minerals Offer a Bette...
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 24, 2022 Results of multiple and complementary lab analyses of minerals found in samples of material from Antarctica could give scientist...

On the Cusp of Drilling: Sol 3511
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2022 It has been almost 8 months to the day since Curiosity powered up its drill and extracted tailings from a Gale crater rock. To...

NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Color...
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the Red Planet's s...

Fine-grained rocks at Hogwallow Flats
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 Perseverance's exploration of the Hawksbill Gap area of the Jezero Delta continues! The rover has abraded at two different loc...

Bill Nelson Needs A Better Interview Handler
China rejects NASA accusation it will take over the moon, Reuters via NBC "China on Monday rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of NAS...

7 big questions the James Webb Space Telescope is about t...
NASA will release the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week. Here’s what it will be looking at first – and how it could addr...

NASA Reports CAPSTONE Comms Problem (Solved) (Updated)
NASA CAPSTONE Mission Experiences Comms Issue NASA is reporting that communications issue has arisen between the spacecraft and the Deep Space Network. "In a...

First Canadian CubeSat Project satellites ready
The first university built CubeSat’s for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Canadian CubeSat Project (CCP) have made their way to the CSA headquarters for...

A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the s...
If a star flying past our solar system moved Neptune's orbit by just 0.1 per cent, it could eventually cause the other planets to smash into one another or g...

ESA's lunar rovers complete simulated moon trials on Moun...
Paving the way for future moon exploration missions, the European Space Agency has been testing its lunar rovers on Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, as an analog...

City heat extremes
With air temperatures in excess of 10°C above the average for the time of year in parts of Europe, the United States and Asia, June 2022 has gone down as a r...

Blinken to meet China, shun Russia, at G20 talks in Bali
Washington (AFP) July 5, 2022 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a rare meeting with China's foreign minister seeking to contain tensions, but wi...

'Colossal' work ahead, as Ukraine recovery meet to open i...
Lugano, Switzerland (AFP) July 4, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of the "colossal" work ahead as leaders from dozens of countries and org...

Rover plus astronaut complete Mount Etna challenge
In a complex role-played version of a mission to the Moon, controllers at ESOC combined with a team of geological scientists and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter ...

NASA Reports CAPSTONE Comms Problem (Updated)
NASA CAPSTONE Mission Experiences Comms Issue NASA is reporting that communications issue has arisen between the spacecraft and the Deep Space Network. "In a...

Advanced Space - CAPSTONE Mission: 05 July 2022 Update
On July 4, 2022, CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) separated successfully from the launch veh...

NASA CAPSTONE Mission Experiences Comms Issue (Updated)
NASA is reporting that communications issue has arisen between the spacecraft and the Deep Space Network....