Bureaucracy is one of those words that gets thrown around so frequently but no one seems to know the true meaning of it. As someone with knowledge of how the U.S. federal government works, the true meaning of the word can […]
Happy Friday. As part of our weekly Today in History series, we look at a historical event that happens 50 years ago today. On February 5, 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed on the Moon for […]
Last week, it was the electric-vehicle startup Faraday Future. This week, another tech startup is joining the SPAC craze. Astra, a San Francisco, California-based rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery service and launch service, announced Tuesday it is going public through […]
The global space tourism market is estimated to reach $1. 7 billion by 2027. The companies currently leading this market are Virgin Galactic, Airbus Group, Boeing Company, and others. Now SpaceX wants to make a foray into the nascent space tourism industry. Today, SpaceX […]
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission. According to NASA, the mission’s primary goal is to obtain a sample of at least 60 g (2.1 oz) from 101955 Bennu, a near-Earth […]
Back in October, we wrote a piece about SpaceX after the founder and CEO Elon Musk announced at the 2020 Mars Society Virtual Convention that SpaceX is planning to send Starship to Mars as early as 2024. “I think we’ve got a […]
We’ve written extensively about SpaceX Starlink. Back in May, SpaceX successfully launched its first full batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit. Starlink is a constellation of satellites that provides satellite Internet access to customers. According to SpaceX, the constellation […]
On Wednesday, December 9, the unmanned SpaceX’s Starship prototype exploded while attempting to land after an otherwise successful test launch from the company’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The launch was part of SpaceX’s effort to use Starship for […]
Last month, we wrote about China’s “historic” mission launch to the unvisited area of the moon. In what many experts said could mark the beginning of another era of “space races,” the mission of the unmanned spacecraft launch, was to bring back […]
Late last year, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said it would be landing the first woman ever on the Moon within four years. At the time, the agency said it plans to return humans back to the […]
Unmanned SpaceX’s Starship prototype exploded while attempting to land on Wednesday after an otherwise successful test launch from the company’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas, according to a live video from Reuters. The launch was part of SpaceX’s effort […]
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi), and one complete orbit takes 365.256 days. The temperature of the Sun at its […]
Back in September, we wrote about NASA after the space agency unveiled a $28 billion plan to return humans back to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972. According to NASA, the first mission, known as Artemis I, will begin late […]
Since the beginning of this year, we’ve all been so preoccupied with anxiety and fear of COVID-19 and how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones from this deadly virus. It’s very understandable given that more than one million […]
We don’t always appreciate how mind-blowing the Red Planet is until we see it up close. The NASA Curiosity rover has been exploring the Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission since launched on November […]
Totum Labs, a San Diego, CA-based tech startup that is revolutionalizing wireless technology by enabling low-cost, global, indoor tracking and monitoring of billions of assets, today announced it has closed $13 million Series A funding to accelerate the deployment and commercialization of […]
For many years, black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material they put an end to the life of their host galaxy. This feasting process is so intense that it creates a highly energetic object called a […]
While the United States is still the only country to have successfully conducted crewed missions to the Moon, China formally launched a “historic” mission to Moon this week to collect and bring back rocks samples from the unvisited area. In what […]
We first covered Relativity Space back in 2018 after the Los Angeles-based orbital launch startup raised $35 million in funding. A lot has changed since then. Relativity Space (Relativity) is disrupting 60 years of aerospace tradition by creating an entirely new process […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is preparing to launch its newest satellite to monitor global sea level. Named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the tiny-house-looking satellite is scheduled to launch tomorrow, Saturday, November 21. The satellite will play a big role in efforts to […]
