By NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory February 26, 2023Mars Observer (artist’s concept). Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-CaltechHubble in 1990 meant trouble. The highly touted space telescope was designed to escape Earth’s blurry atmosphere to capture unparalleled visual images of the universe. But its creators were shocked to discover that it was cruelly nearsighted from a minuscule flaw.Enter…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Space Force officials will sit down with industry executives in Los Angeles this week to discuss the fine points of the upcoming national security space launch procurement. Companies expect to hear details about the Space Force’s plan to attract new launch providers to compete for as many as 70 missions projected for…
Home News Science & Astronomy Three galaxies in the constellation Boötes imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as they are heading for a collision. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun) A stunning new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows three galaxies heading for a collision and merger. While galactic collisions are fairly common,…
WASHINGTON — When the Pentagon was ordered to evacuate U.S. troops and civilians from Afghanistan in 2021, the military’s transportation command called up the nation’s commercial airlines to help with the evacuation. This was a rare instance when DoD activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF), a program set up by the U.S. government with…
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Move Over, Man of Steel – an Iron Man is Rocketing Into Production A long while back, Electronic Arts announced that a game based on Marvel’s Iron Man had entered pre-production. Now, that announcement is starting to bear fruit. Motive Studios, the developer behind the incredible Dead Space remake, is now hiring for several new…
Screenshot: Motive Studio / KotakuMotive Studio’s Dead Space remake is a bloody slow-crawl to victory, one that might be made easier with an exploit spotted by a Reddit user earlier this week. The exploit lets players pop out endless Pulse Rifle ammo to exchange for currency, a process one commenter in that Reddit remembers using…
ADEO being deployed from the ION Satellite Carrier during the December 2022 test.Gif: High Performance Space Structure Systems/GizmodoThere’s a lot of junk orbiting our planet, from tiny flecks of paint to defunct rocket stages. While solutions to remove pre-existing debris have been developed, a private space company in Germany has successfully tested a method to…
by Sandra Erwin — January 23, 2023 The Space Development Agency renamed its constellation “Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.” It was formerly known as the “National Defense Space Architecture.” Credit: SDA SDA said the rebranding does not reflect any change to the mission WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency is renaming its planned network of military…
The James Webb Space Telescope is one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023. Explore the rest of the list here. Natalie Batalha was itching for data from the James Webb Space Telescope. It was a few months after the telescope had reached its final orbit, and her group at the University of…