NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing, verifying how its systems work together, respond to pilot inputs and handle injected failures. (Image credit:
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing, verifying how its systems work together, respond to pilot inputs and handle injected failures. (Image credit:
Distribution of known exoplanet masses plotted vs. semi-major axis (left) and semimajor axis normalized to the location of the snow-line (right) at asnow = 2.7AU M/MSun (green dashed line). Planets
This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. This week we’re at the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis where we’ll post episodes
A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth on May 21, passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance. The close approach will
ST. LOUIS – Hyperspectral imagery startup Kuva Space will expand its focus on maritime-domain awareness with its second satellite scheduled to launch in June. Kuva has delivered Hyperfield-1B, a 60-kilogram
Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) — NASA In 2022 and 2023 the hydrogen comae of two long period comets, C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) and C/2022 E3 (ZTF), were observed with the Solar
Full image of this system of the first epoch in the H band. Left panel: central stars. The fainter component is in the southeast direction of the primary star on
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit show off their ‘Proud to be American’ socks in a photo taken aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit:
4 min read Unearthly Plumbing Required for Plant Watering in Space NASA is demonstrating new microgravity fluids technologies to enable advanced “no-moving-parts” plant-watering methods aboard spacecraft. Boeing Astronauts Sunita Williams
ST. LOUIS — Artificial intelligence continues to loom large over the future of U.S. geospatial intelligence. Speaking at the GEOINT Symposium on May 18, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Deputy Director