Ultra-Black Coating Could Mitigate Light Pollution Caused by Satellites
There’s no doubt about it: the skies are filling up with satellites that regularly pass overhead, creating light…
Wally Funk, trailblazing aviator who waited 60 years to go to space, dies at 87
When Wally Funk was 5, she donned a Superman cape and leaped from the roof of her family’s…
Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Two new reports from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluate data from the Umbra X-band Synthetic…
NASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea Ice
This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will…
‘Astronomers have to revise estimates’: The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized
Two of the Milky Way‘s gigantic spiral arms appear to be much farther away than we realized, scientists…
On July 1, 2026, the company once known as Maxar began selling 3D maps of Earth it can refresh within a day or sharpen to 15 centimeters, built less for people to study than for the autonomous drones and weapons that navigate by matching their cameras against the terrain
Vantor, the American Earth-observation company formerly known as Maxar, is now rebuilding chosen stretches of the planet as…
Satellites in tandem reveal 30 years of Antarctic ice flow
Applications 09/07/2026 71 views 2 likes Thirty years after the European Space Agency first demonstrated the power of…
A “Smart Ruler” Could Help Swarms of Space Telescopes Image Exoplanets
We’ve talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image…
Interior Department asks: Can oil platforms be used for space launches?
The Interior Department wants the public to weigh in on one idea for what to do with hundreds…
On July 7, a small Miami company called City Labs put a tritium-powered battery the size of a pencil eraser into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 — its softball-sized BOHR CubeSat becoming the first commercial spacecraft ever cleared to carry a nuclear power source under the FAA pathway built after a 2019 White House memo
Early Tuesday morning, a softball-sized satellite built by Miami’s City Labs reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX…
Trump Heaps Praise on Gwynne Shotwell for SpaceX Stock Gift
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to thank SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell for her and her husband’s…
Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.
But flat-packed, stackable satellites allow operators to deliver more capability to orbit faster. Starship will take this to…