The fight over NASA’s premier center for space and Earth sciences trudges on, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill call for a formal investigation into the closing of critical campus facilities
It’s June 1982, and sci-fi fans heading to movie theaters have a choice to make. On one screen, they can watch a feel-good family movie about a kindly alien who
WASHINGTON — Blue Origin said it has passed a key development milestone for its Blue Ring spacecraft, a maneuverable in-orbit transport vehicle designed for national security missions and backed by
File photo: A Falcon 9 stands ready for a Starlink mission at Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX is planning to launch a Falcon 9
TAMPA, Fla. — Europe must move quickly to craft a large-scale strategy for space-based data centers or risk ceding a potential pillar of future digital infrastructure to global competitors, according
Using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, astronomers have obtained their first view of the inner region around a dead white dwarf star that is vampirically feeding on a
Credit: NASA NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid
WARSAW, Poland — Finnish SAR constellation operator Iceye and Japan’s aerospace and defense company IHI Corporation recently signed a deal to develop an Earth observation satellite constellation for security, civilian
The mission HydroGNSS is the first ESA Scout mission. The two-satellite mission uses a technique called Global Navigation Satellite System reflectometry to measure hydrological climate variables, including soil moisture, freeze–thaw state
The mission With global mean sea level rising because of climate change, Copernicus Sentinel-6 is the next radar altimetry reference mission to extend the legacy of sea-surface height measurements until