MIT’s New Dual-Mode Rocket System Could Send Tiny Satellites to Mars
These four flight unit electrospray thrusters were delivered by MIT Space Propulsion Laboratory to NASA for the upcoming…
Chinese team flags life-threatening ‘glaring weakness’ in Nasa’s Artemis programme
China and the United States are answering this in contrasting ways. Their answers could reveal the value they…
Parker Solar Probe Makes Another Flyby Of The Sun, Solar Energy Bags A Win, And More Science Stories
NASA this week announced the four-person crew that will lead its Artemis III mission in 2027: NASA astronauts…
In 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the first image of the monster at our galaxy’s center, Sagittarius A* — a black hole 4 million times the Sun’s mass, sitting quietly 27,000 light-years away the whole time
On 12 May 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration unveiled the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black…
Alphabet’s New SpaceX Exposure Adds A Fresh Dimension To Its Story
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It was not Elon Musk but Gwynne Shotwell, the engineer who has turned his ambitions into operating reality since becoming SpaceX’s president in 2008, who helped ring the Nasdaq bell on Friday — the moment a company built on reusable rockets and satellite internet became, on paper, worth more than two trillion dollars.
When SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq on Friday, Elon Musk appeared on a video feed from Starbase in…
Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire: The SpaceX IPO and the social physiognomy of oligarchy
Elevenlabs AudioNative Player Elon Musk gives a Nazi salute at an indoor presidential Inauguration event in Washington, Monday,…
Why SpaceX may not be a model for Chinese companies to copy
The company raised US$75 billion when it went public on Friday and made its chief executive Elon Musk…
A solar storm was seen speeding up instead of slowing down, and scientists think they know why
Data from Solar Orbiter (0.85 AU) and Wind (0.98 AU) show the November 2021 CME speeding up as…
A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?
The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map…
JWST Finds Exoplanets Choked by Diesel Smog
It’s 2134, and humanity has finally embraced green technologies while ridding the Earth of harmful fossil-burning technologies, most…
Elon Musk’s vast empire – from rockets to brain implants
Elon Musk, Photo: REUTERS Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and now the first trillionaire, controls…