NASA's 'flawless' heat shield demo passes the test
Monday, 20 November 2023 18:50
A little more than a year ago, a NASA flight test article came screaming back from space at more than 18,000 mph, reaching temperatures of nearly 2,700°F before gently splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. At that moment, it became the largest blunt body—a type of reentry vehicle that creates a heat-deflecting shockwave—ever to reenter Earth's atmosphere.
The Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) launched on Nov. 10, 2022, aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket and successfully demonstrated an inflatable heat shield. Also known as a Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) aeroshell, this technology could allow larger spacecraft to safely descend through the atmospheres of celestial bodies like Mars, Venus, and even Saturn's moon, Titan.
U.S. delegation stokes optimism on wireless and satellite goals at WRC-23
Monday, 20 November 2023 16:51
Using recovery capsules to prevent loss of data from balloon-based telescopes
Monday, 20 November 2023 15:30
Webb reveals new features in heart of the Milky Way
Monday, 20 November 2023 14:00
The latest image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense centre of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
Arctic Weather Satellite in shape
Monday, 20 November 2023 13:44
Embracing the New Space approach, it has taken just 36 months to develop and build ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite. Now complete, this remarkable microsatellite has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to Germany where it is starting a series of tests to make sure that it will survive liftoff next year and its subsequent life in orbit.
Emirati university signs up to China’s moon base project
Monday, 20 November 2023 13:04
Australians vote on name for home-made Moon rover
Monday, 20 November 2023 11:14
Australians began voting Monday on a name for the country's first home-made Moon rover, with a shortlist including "Mateship", "Roo-ver" and "Kakirra" - an Indigenous word for the Earth's satellite.
Australia's space industry will develop the semi-autonomous rover to collect lunar soil under an agreement signed two years ago with NASA, which plans to fly it to the Moon's surface as soon as OpenAI stands by decision to fire Sam Altman despite pressure
Monday, 20 November 2023 11:14
The board of ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Sunday rejected pressure from Microsoft and other major investors to reverse its stunning decision to fire CEO Sam Altman, US media reported.
OpenAI and Altman rocketed to fame with the launch of ChatGPT last year, showcasing advances in generative artificial intelligence that set off a gold rush in the sector.
But the company's board shocked the in 
World View ends plans to go public through a SPAC merger
Monday, 20 November 2023 09:53
Watch live: Ariane 6 eight-minute hot-fire test
Monday, 20 November 2023 09:36
Watch live on ESA Web TV on 23 November as Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket goes through a full-scale rehearsal in preparation for its first flight, when teams from ArianeGroup, France’s space agency CNES, and ESA on the ground will complete a launch countdown rehearsal. The test includes the ignition of the core stage Vulcain 2.1 engine, followed by 470 seconds of stabilised operation covering the entire core stage flight phase, as it would function on a launch into space.
Rocket engine startup Ursa Major to venture into solid propulsion
Monday, 20 November 2023 07:07
SpaceX Starship disintegrates after successful stage separation
Sunday, 19 November 2023 12:44
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft test launch ended with "rapid unscheduled disassembly," Saturday when the booster stage and spacecraft disintegrated shortly after completing a successful stage separation.
The Starship test launch was originally planned for Friday but had to be delayed as technicians replaced a grid fin actuator, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
In April, the first Advanced Space's CAPSTONE operates one year at the Moon
Sunday, 19 November 2023 12:44
Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, announced today that their Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has successfully operated on-orbit around the Moon for a full year.
This milestone puts the company in an elite category logging over 365 days of continuous operations in the cislunar environment. As the Cube Quest concludes: Wins an lessons learned from Centennial Challenge
Sunday, 19 November 2023 12:44
Artemis I launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022, penning a new era of space exploration and inching the agency closer to sending the first woman and first person of color to the lunar surface.
Aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket were 10 small satellites, no bigger than shoeboxes, whose goal was to detach and capably perform operations near and beyond