Investors Put More Than $55 Billion Behind Space Startups Last Year
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the booming space industry, better space weather forecasts,…
Viruses Behave Totally Differently in Space and It Could Help Us Treat Superbugs on Earth
The International Space Station photographed above the Earth from the space shuttle Atlantis in 2011. Credit: NASA. Bacteriophages…
Startup’s Next-Gen ‘Space Armor’ Set for First In-Orbit Test on SpaceX Mission This Year
Georgia-based startup Atomic-6 has come up with a new solution to safeguard spacecraft, satellites, and astronauts from high-speed…
NASA is ending Crew-11 astronauts’ mission a month early
NASA has decided to bring the Crew-11 astronauts home a month earlier than originally planned due to a…
Watch Live as NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk to Prep the ISS for its Demise
After more than 25 years of service, the International Space Station is nearing the end of its operational…
SpaceX will move more than 4,400 satellites to a lower orbit after China cited safety risk
SpaceX has announced it will reconfigure its Starlink internet satellite constellation by lowering the orbit of more than…
The International Space Station Is Retiring: Meet the Private Space Stations That Will Replace It
The International Space Station (ISS), the icon of international collaboration and scientific success, is approaching the end of…
A rare space image links Earth’s glow with the Andromeda Galaxy |
Source: Don Pettit via X (formerly Twitter) A single photograph taken from orbit has managed to make a…
Tour the International Space Station in new NASA walkthrough
There is nearly 16,700 cubic feet of habitable area aboard the International Space Station (ISS). That makes it…
Russia’s Next Space Station Could Reuse Its ISS Parts—Leaks and All
The International Space Station (ISS) is due to retire soon, plunging into the South Pacific Ocean after being…
Proposed Space Station Could Be Deployed in a Single Launch
Florida startup Max Space announced its plans to launch a prototype of its commercial space station by 2027,…
A Starlink satellite just exploded and left ‘trackable’ debris
SpaceX said it experienced an anomaly with one if its Starlink satellites that was likely caused by a…