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Anil Menon, a NASA flight surgeon who was rejected four times from the astronaut program, eventually joined SpaceX and later became a NASA astronaut, now heading to space on the Soyuz.
This Ars Technica article explores the technical challenges of building orbital data centers, focusing on SpaceX's plans for a constellation of AI1 satellites to power GPUs in space, covering heat dissipation, radiation, and latency issues.
The US FCC has approved Reflect Orbital's Eärendil-1 mirror satellite, which will reflect sunlight to Earth at night for solar energy and other uses, sparking criticism from astronomers and environmental advocates over light pollution.
A live map web app and iOS app that tracks the positions of over 30,000 satellites including Starlink, GPS, and others, using WebGL visualization.
Industry officials express concerns about the limited availability and rising costs of SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle for commercial space stations in the 2030s, as SpaceX may phase it out in favor of Starship.
A personal project website that visualizes all satellites in orbit, both current and historical.
Orbit is an iOS app that uses augmented reality to track over 15,000 satellites, planets, and debris in real-time by pointing your camera at the sky.
NASA has open-sourced SpaceWasm, a WebAssembly interpreter written in Rust that meets aviation standards, designed for spacecraft onboard environments, supporting streaming decoding and deterministic memory allocation.
NASA's weekly update highlights celebrations of America's aerospace legacy with Freedom250 flyovers, preparations for new ISS crew, Artemis III assembly milestones, and global disaster response support.
A team led by Ignazio Ciufolini used the LARES-2 satellite to measure Earth's frame dragging effect with unprecedented precision (0.2% uncertainty), providing the most accurate test yet of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch to the International Space Station on July 14 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, with live coverage available on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.
China successfully conducted a mid-air 'net catch' recovery of a Long March 10B booster at sea, marking a significant advancement in reusable rocket technology.
China's CZ10-II rocket successfully performed a landing into a net, demonstrating a novel recovery method for launch vehicles.
Impulse Space, a non-launch company developing the Helios kick stage, has been on-ramped to the US Space Force's Lane 1 launch program, aiming to provide rapid orbital transfer services using various rockets.
The space industry is witnessing a reversal of the traditional dynamic where satellite payloads dictated rocket design, as SpaceX's massive Starship rocket now forces satellite manufacturers to adapt to its unprecedented capacity and scale.
City Labs launched BOHR, the first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, using a betavoltaic battery powered by tritium decay. The mission demonstrates a compact, regulatory-approved nuclear power system for space, enabling persistent power independent of sunlight.
Blue Origin is raising $10 billion in private capital for the first time, led by Coatue Management and including a $2 billion contribution from Jeff Bezos, to better compete with SpaceX in spaceflight, launch, and related ventures.
The James Webb Space Telescope detected a mysterious chemical signature on Pluto and Titan at 5.113 micrometers that does not match any known compound, baffling astronomers and prompting further study.
British startup Mass Balance launched a self-contained autonomous laboratory into orbit to study disease-causing disordered proteins under microgravity, aiming to generate data to train AI models for drug discovery. The test mission will validate the system's ability to run chemical experiments in space.
SpaceX is launching Falcon 9 on the Transporter-17 mission, with liftoff targeted for 12:12 a.m. PT and a live webcast starting 15 minutes before.