NASA and Small Business Administration partner on funding key space technologies
WASHINGTON — NASA is partnering with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on an effort to attract capital to invest in companies…
Airbus to build Aeolus-2 wind-monitoring satellite
WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency has selected Airbus Defence and Space to start work on the successor to a wind-monitoring satellite.…
Superintelligent AI in space could explain the Fermi Pa…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it mean in the long run?…
‘Next-door neighbor’ exoplanet has a much higher chance…
A hefty “super Earth” lurking in one of the closest star systems to our planet may be much better suited to supporting…
GAO flags satellite costs, launch risks in Space Force portfolio
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has earned a reputation inside the Pentagon for moving faster than traditional military acquisition…
Starship in Florida pushing for launch this year
Starship in…
Pegasus launches Swift reboost mission
WASHINGTON — A Pegasus XL launched a mission to reboost a NASA astrophysics spacecraft on what may be the final flight of that rocket. A…
Chinese satellite manufacturer Hongqing raises $191 million
HELSINKI — Hongqing Technology, the satellite manufacturing affiliate of launch firm Landspace, has secured one of the largest single raises…
‘It’s more than a hope, it’s a guarantee’: The Vera C. …
On a dark mountaintop in Chile, the world’s largest digital camera has begun filming its masterpiece. This Tuesday (June 30), scientists…