Technology Bound for Mars in 2020earthsky.org - By Deborah Byrd The spacecraft for NASA’s next Mars mission – Mars 2020 – is really beginning to take shape now. Here’s the complete cruise stage, suspended in a …
Solar System How to mine space for resources without burning through the solar systemSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Space is hiding an entire universe of untapped resources, especially when humans are using up whatever we have on Earth unnervingly fast — but how …
Play buttonNASA NASA administrator on new Moon plan: ‘We’re doing this in a way that’s never been done before’The Verge - Loren GrushNASA administrator Jim Bridenstine is currently the public face of the agency’s newly named lunar initiative, Artemis, which aims to put the first woman on the surface of the Moon by 2024. On Monday, revealed
NASA NASA taps SpaceX, Blue Origin and others for Artemis lunar lander projectCNET - by Oscar Gonzalez It's serious about going back to the moon.
So You Want to Start your own Space Agency? (Part 2)astropreneurs.space - Astropreneurs Continuing where Part I left off, the next installation of So You Want to Start your own Space Agency? takes an in-depth look at starting a private …
NASA NASA Taps 11 American Companies to Advance Human Lunar Landersnasa.gov - Sean Potter NASA Taps 11 American Companies to Advance Human Lunar Landers NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human …
Space weapons, satellites and anti-satellite systemsspacelegalissues.com - Carlo Belbusti Let’s have a look at space weapons, satellites and anti-satellite systems. One of the first problems to be addressed in the analysis of satellites is …
Robert Zubrin Makes a Strong Case for Space DevelopmentForbes - Greg AutrySpace luminary Robert Zubrin has just released The Case for Space, a book that expands the motif of his seminal The Case for Mars throughout the solar system. While the founder and President of The Mars
NASA NASA's GRACE: What researchers have learned from water in motionphys.org - Esprit Smith When you hear news about ice loss from Greenland or Antarctica, an aquifer in California that is getting depleted, or a new explanation for a wobble …
New Zealand New Zealand's South Island imaged by Proba-Vphys.org - Science X staff The snow-capped peaks of the Southern Alps stretch more than 500 km northeast to southwest across New Zealand's South Island, imaged here in the …
Airbus Reprogrammable satellite takes shapephys.org - Science X staff The payload and platform of the first European satellite that can be completely reprogrammed after launch have been successfully joined together. The …
NASA Moon Plan, Deep Space Exploration and Development: Next Frontier for National Securityneatorama.com - Exuperist Plans for lunar settlements aren't the only things that NASA has in its sleeves. There are possibilities of further advancing national security …
SpaceX Listen: SpaceX is launching 60 Starlink internet satellitesAudioburst - News 96.5 WDBO "Day. Spacex getting ready for another falcon nine rocket launch. A good chance. The launch will be on schedule. Weather conditions are eighty …
Solar Sail SpaceX is About to Launch a Solar Sail Inspired by Carl Saganfuturism.com - Victor Tangermann After months of delays, an 11 pound spacecraft propelled by the power of sunlight is finally launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy this summer from …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Kleos Space Appoints Ground Station Service Providerchronicle.lu Luxembourg-based service company Kleos Space S.A. has signed a ground station service agreement with Norwegian Kongsberg Satellite Services …
Science China's Chang'E 4 mission discovers new 'secrets' from the far side of the moonphys.org - Science X staff A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth Chang'E probe (CE-4) …
SpaceX Elon Musk confirms SpaceX is building multiple StarshipsCNET - by Erin Carson He tweets that the company is building them at different sites to see if one is better.
Play buttonSpaceX SpaceX explains how its internet satellites will survive in orbitEngadget - Rachel EnglandEarlier this week Elon Musk gave us a sneak peek at Space X's Starlink internet satellites before they're propelled into orbit. We can already see that it's a bit of a squeeze for the 60 production satellites
Moon NASA's Artemis mission plans to put the first woman on the Moon by 2024newatlas.com - Nick Lavars NASA has filled in some of the blanks concerning its return to the Moon, today giving the mission a name and declaring plans to put the first woman …
Science Scientists are grappling with our biggest limitation in spaceflight: our own bodiesVox - Brian ResnickThe human body has evolved, for hundreds of thousands of years, to thrive on the surface of the Earth. But what happens when you take such an earthbound body and put it in the weightlessness of space?
SpaceX SpaceX launches first Starlink internet satellitesQuartz - Tim FernholzElon Musk’s space company is planning to launch 60 of its own satellites in a single launch this week, the first of more than 4,000 spacecraft planned for the Starlink network. If successful, the flight
Investing The Beginner's Guide To Investing In Commercial SpaceForbes - Charles BeamesAs with any exciting economic expansion, whether the Wild West of the 19th-century or the tech booms of the 20th-century, there are almost as many swindlers and con artists as there are legitimate business
Sailing Researchers Just Tested a Prototype Probe Designed to 'Sail' Between The StarsScienceAlert - MATT WILLIAMS, UNIVERSE TODAY At the University of California, Santa Barbara, researchers with the UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group (ECG) are currently working on ways to achieve …
Spacecraft Rocket Lab To Launch Multiple Satellites On A Rideshare Mission Next MonthForbes - Jonathan O'CallaghanRocket Lab has announced that its next launch will be a rideshare mission for the company Spaceflight, taking multiple satellites into orbit. The launch will take place in early June from Rocket Lab’s
Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic prepares move to Spaceport America after 2 successful test flightsAxios - Orion Rummler Virgin Galactic announced on Friday that it will finally move operations from its Mojave facilities to the New Mexico launch site Spaceport America, …
Falcon 9 Elon Musk reveals how to stuff 60 Starlink satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon rocketgeekwire.com - Alan Boyle We now know how many of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband data satellites, developed in Redmond, Wash., can be crammed into the nose cone of a Falcon …
Science How asteroid mining will save the Earth — and mint trillionairesMashable - by Chris TaylorNOTE FOR 2019 READERS: This is the seventh in a series of digital time capsules for the next century. The series marks a little-known chronological milestone. According to UN data, life expectancy at in
Space Exploration Blue Origin launches “Club for the Future” to inspire a new generation of space explorationTechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberAs part of his big reveal of Blue Origin’s new lunar lander, “Blue Moon”, Jeff Bezos announced Club for the Future, a new organization to inspire a new generation of space explorers and entrepreneurs.
Space Travel Jeff Bezos Reveals Lunar Lander Designed for 'Sustained Human Presence on the Moon'Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced its first lunar lander, Blue Moon, at a press conference today. The lander has been “years in development,” …
