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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 four, which SpaceX will re-fly again and again to get crews to space. “We are finishing our final [capsule], but we still…

NASA Finalizes Plans for Its Next Cosmic Mapmaker

March 24, 2022

. 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. Loading Image…

NASA announces plans to develop second Moon lander, alongside SpaceX’s Starship

March 24, 2022

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…

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter and Asteroid-Monitoring System Honored

March 24, 2022

. 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. The Ingenuity team received the club’s preeminent award, the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, which honors a person…

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…

International Sea Level Satellite Takes Over From Predecessor

March 23, 2022

. 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

. 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 with only a small number of known planets, all of them orbiting our Sun. But a new raft of discoveries marks a scientific…

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hightails It to Martian Delta

March 19, 2022

. 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…

NASA Spots Giant Debris Cloud Created by Clashing Celestial Bodies

March 18, 2022

. NASA Spots Giant Debris Cloud Created by Clashing Celestial Bodies Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. …

Pete Davidson won’t actually be going to space on the next Blue Origin flight

March 18, 2022

Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is no longer scheduled to fly on Blue Origin’s space flight later this month, the space tourism venture has announced. No reason was given for Davidson’s departure, only that the date of the launch has shifted from its original March 23rd date. “Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29. Pete Davidson is no longer able…