This morning, space tourism venture Blue Origin will launch its fourth passenger flight to the edge of space and back — but this time, there won’t be any big name celebrities on board. Six crew members — five paying customers and one company employee — will be flying this mission, as Blue Origin transitions into regular commercial flights.
Originally, SNL star and comedian Pete Davidson…
Record-breaking NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is set to return to Earth from the International Space Station on early March 30th, coming back in a Russian Soyuz rocket along with two Russian cosmonauts. His scheduled journey back to the planet has been an ongoing source of…
SpaceX pausing production of new Crew Dragon spacecraft
March 28, 2022
SpaceX says it will no longer build new vehicles of its Crew Dragon capsule, the spacecraft the company uses to take humans to and from the International Space Station, according to a report in Reuters. The plan for now is to cap the Crew Dragon fleet for carrying humans at…
NASA Finalizes Plans for Its Next Cosmic Mapmaker
March 24, 2022
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NASA Finalizes Plans for Its Next Cosmic Mapmaker
The SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space Telescope. But the two observatories will take dramatically different approaches to studying the sky.
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It’s a long road from designing a spacecraft to launching and operating it. Major components of NASA’s…
Today, NASA announced plans to develop a second human lunar lander for its Artemis program, the agency’s major spaceflight initiative to send humans back to the Moon. To build the vehicle, the space agency is calling on commercial space companies to propose concepts for…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter and Asteroid-Monitoring System Honored
The team behind the agency’s history-making rotorcraft soars, picking up high-profile awards alongside a new-and-improved system to assess asteroid orbits.
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Starlink hikes prices for monthly service and starter kit, even if you put down a deposit
March 23, 2022
SpaceX’s internet-from-space program Starlink is increasing prices for both the purchase of Starlink kits and for the monthly service, according to a new email sent out to customers this afternoon reviewed by The Verge. The company says the “sole purpose of these adjustments is to keep pace with rising inflation.”
Originally, opting into Starlink required a $499 upfront purchase of a starter…
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International Sea Level Satellite Takes Over From Predecessor
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the newest addition to a long line of ocean-monitoring satellites, becomes the reference satellite for sea level measurements.
On March…
Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets
March 22, 2022
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Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets
The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.
Not so long ago, we lived in a universe…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hightails It to Martian Delta
March 19, 2022
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hightails It to Martian Delta
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before it – and it’s doing so using artificial…
