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SpaceX just fueled up its giant Starship rocket, checking another box ahead of the vehicle’s fourth test flight. The company performed a “wet dress rehearsal” with Starship at its Starbase site in South Texas today (May 20), filling both of the vehicle’s stages with supercold liquid oxygen and liquid methane in a key prelaunch test. …

SpaceX Fuels Up Starship Megarocket Ahead Of 4th Test Flight. Read More »

The lead scientist for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rover’s sample tubes, both dropped on the surface of Mars and contained within the rover itself while wheeling about within Jezero Crater. Given the samples of Mars that Perseverance has collected so far, could one of those …

Perseverance Rover’s Mars Rock Sample May Contain Best Evidence Of Possible Ancient Life. Read More »

Ed Dwight got to live out his long-delayed spaceflight dream over the weekend — and set a record in the process. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy selected Dwight to train at the U.S. Air Force’s Aerospace Research Pilot School. ARPS was widely regarded as a conduit into NASA’s astronaut corps at the time, so …

‘This Was A Life-Changing Experience:’ 1st Black Astronaut Candidate Exults After Suborbital Launch. Read More »

There might be total darkness in the depths of the sea, but the sun still impacts the abyss. During this month’s solar storms — you know, the ones that resulted in the aurora lighting up half of the planet on May 10 — Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) deep-sea observatories recorded disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field. The …

Solar Storm Frenzy Of May 2024 Was Strong Enough To Affect The Deep Sea. Read More »

According to the Nigerian Communications Commission, Starlink Services, LLC, is Nigeria’s third-largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) by subscriber count in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2023. The satellite internet constellation company has an aggregate of 23,897 active subscribed customers, cementing its status as one of the leading ISPs in the country. In addition, the NCC’s …

Starlink Emerges As Nigeria’s Third-largest ISP In Q4 2023. Read More »

An innovative rocket system could revolutionize future deep space missions to Mars, reducing travel time to the Red Planet to just a few months. The goal of landing humans on Mars has presented a myriad of challenges, including the need to quickly transport large payloads to and from the distant planet, which, depending on the …

NASA-Funded Pulsed Plasma Rocket Concept Aims To Send Astronauts To Mars In 2 Months. Read More »

On May 20, 1978, NASA launched a spacecraft to Venus. The mission was called Pioneer-Venus 1, but it’s also known as the Pioneer Venus Orbiter. This was the first of two spacecraft that made up the Pioneer Venus mission. Pioneer Venus 2 launched a couple months later, and that spacecraft dropped five probes onto the …

On This Day in Space: May 20, 1978: NASA Launches Pioneer Venus Orbiter. Read More »

Blue Origin’s nearly two-year human spaceflight drought is over. Jeff Bezos‘ aerospace company launched its NS-25 mission today (May 19), sending six people — including the United States’ first-ever Black astronaut candidate — on a brief trip to suborbital space aboard its New Shepard rocket-capsule combo. It was Blue Origin‘s first space tourism launch since …

Blue Origin Launches 1st Black Astronaut Candidate, Age 90, And 5 Space Tourists On New Shepard Rocket. Read More »

NASA is preparing to launch its latest climate science mission, the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE), which aims to capture brand new data on how heat is lost to space from Earth’s polar regions. PREFIRE consists of a pair of cubesats that will launch separately into near-polar orbits. The first, “Ready, Aim, …

NASA’s PREFIRE Mission Is Ready To Unlock The Mysteries Of Earth’s Poles. Read More »