Virgin Galactic’s future fleet of commercial space planes will now have a home where they will be brought to life starting next year. Virgin Galactic’s new “Delta” class space planes are set to take flight no earlier than 2026. The final flight of their previous space plane, VSS Unity, took place on June 8 and …
Virgin Galactic Completes New Delta Space Plane Manufacturing Facility In Arizona. Read More »
NASA will perform its own re-authorization of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 before the rocket launches its next astronaut crew or cargo mission, the agency confirmed Wednesday (July 17). Falcon 9 experienced a rare failure during an engine burn of SpaceX rocket’s second stage, due to an oxygen leak, during a launch on Thursday (July 11). A …
An astronaut assigned to back up a historic moon mission was seeing orange last week. NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, recently named backup for the Artemis 2 round-the-moon flight scheduled for 2025, finished a standard spacesuit fit check in the agency’s orange outfit. Then he posted how it looked in different positions on X, formerly Twitter. …
Astronomers have imaged a strange S-shaped jet emerging from a neutron star for the first time ever. The weird emission suggests this dead star resembles the shape of water spraying from a garden sprinkler. The “cosmic garden sprinkler” in question is a neutron star that sits in the binary system Circinus X-1, located more than …
Strange ‘Garden Sprinkler’ Jets Are Erupting From A Dead Vampire Star. Read More »
