Starship Flight 14: SpaceX Attempts Orbit
Starship Flight 14: SpaceX…
Missile production push runs into solid rocket motor bottleneck
WASHINGTON — U.S. production of solid rocket motors is rising, but not fast enough to meet the Pentagon’s missile-defense program demands,…
Revised Artemis lunar lander plans take shape
HOUSTON — NASA has provided more details about the revised approaches that Blue Origin and SpaceX are taking to accelerate work on Artemis…
NASA’s experimental X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for 1…
NASA‘s X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin, has broken the sound barrier for the…
Avanti trims GEO exposure with Hylas-3 sale
TAMPA, Fla. — Avanti Communications is moving to close a chapter on the debt-fueled geostationary expansion that once defined the British…
SpaceX shares rise nearly 20% in historic IPO
WASHINGTON — SpaceX shares rose on the first day of trading as the company went public in a milestone event for both the company and the…
Astronomers fear orbital data centers will interfere with observations
WASHINGTON — As SpaceX gears up to start launching orbital data center spacecraft as soon as next year, astronomers warn those satellites…
H3 successfully returns to flight
WASHINGTON — Japan’s H3 rocket launched June 11 on its first flight since a failure in December, placing six smallsats in orbit. The H3 lifted…
World Cup Fever in Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Mexico, was quite a different place when it last hosted World Cup games 40 years ago. The city welcomed matches in June 1986 and…
All in on AI at Astra
Chris Kemp thinks he could be the last person left working at Astra — but not for the reason most people might think. His company rode the…