Browsing: Spaceflight & Orbital

TAMPA, Fla. — Amazon received approval Feb. 10 to deploy thousands more broadband satellites, weeks after seeking relief from a July milestone for its first-generation network…

Tesla executive Raj Jegannathan is moving on from the company after 13 years, he announced on LinkedIn on Monday. “It is challenging to encapsulate 13 years…

Teams monitor the countdown during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s…

By now, 3I/ATLAS is no stranger to astronomers. The interstellar comet has already reshaped expectations simply by existing, and by lingering long enough to be studied…

Elon Musk has always been locked in on Mars.The world’s richest man has repeatedly said that he founded SpaceX back in 2002 primarily to help settle…

Germany’s top intelligence officials made waves last year by calling for the creation of a European spy network to lessen Europe’s dependence on American intelligence. After…

Elon Musk has clarified that SpaceX is prioritizing the Moon over Mars as the fastest path to establishing a self-growing off-world civilization.  The shift, Musk explained,…

The nine Merlin 1D engines at the base of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket briefly ignited during a static fire test of the vehicle on Sunday, Feb.…

Rolls-Royce is halting the development of its mini nuclear reactor, which was planned for use on the Moon. The decision to put a pin in the…

The sky is never clearer than on a cold, starry midwinter night. It is on such occasions, thanks to winter’s exceptional atmospheric transparency, that fainter stars…