Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2024
Bluestone Investment Partners has finalized a strategic investment in Qualis Corporation, a Huntsville, Alabama-based firm specializing in missile defense and space systems technology. Qualis is known for its role in advancing next-generation missile defense and satellite communications systems, providing key services in modeling, simulation, and testing. The company excels in simulating R

Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2024
The decision to transfer the crew of Boeing's Starliner to a SpaceX mission after the spacecraft malfunctioned is just the latest twist in a long saga that has undermined the credibility of the US aerospace giant. Here is a recap of the setbacks and delays on Starliner's journey to fly a crew to the International Space Station - and how it was unable to bring them back again. - 2014: N

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2024
Boeing Starliner crewmembers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded aboard the International Space Station since June, will remain there until February, NASA administrators announced Saturday. In weighing whether to allow them to try to return to Earth aboard their malfunctioning Starliner craft or wait until the completion of the upcoming SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon mission i

Houston (AFP) Aug 24, 2024
Two US astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner will have to stay six more months and return home with rival SpaceX, NASA said Saturday, in a fresh public relations blow to the crisis-hit aviation giant. The return of Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams had already been delayed for weeks by thruster malfunctions of the Boeing spacecraft

Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2024
SpaceX is coming to Boeing's rescue. The legacy company needing aid from an upstart rival is hardly welcome news to the aerospace giant. Because of problems with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, two astronauts who rode on it to the International Space Station in June will finally return to Earth on a vessel built by Elon Musk's SpaceX. NASA's announcement Saturday of that plan represe

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2024
The violent collapse of massive, rapidly spinning stars could generate detectable gravitational waves, according to new research published in 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters'. Scientists suggest that these waves, resulting from collapsing stars known as collapsars, are just waiting to be discovered by current observatories. These gravitational waves are produced when stars, 15 to 20 tim

London, UK (SPX) Aug 26, 2024
A team of researchers has identified a rare binary star system, estimated to be around 10 billion years old, that has traveled from the remote regions of the Milky Way's halo to our local stellar neighborhood. The international team, including experts from the University of Hertfordshire, the UK, Spain, and China, made the discovery while examining stars near Earth. They identified a pair

Paris, France (SPX) Aug 23, 2024
The third European Service Module (ESM-3) for NASA's Orion spacecraft has departed from Airbus' Bremen, Germany, facilities, bound for Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This module will be integrated with the Crew Module in preparation for the Artemis III mission, which will see astronauts return to the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Constructed by Air

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2024
A global team of 45 scientists studying meteor showers has uncovered that comets break apart in different ways when nearing the Sun, with these variations tied to the environments where the comets initially formed 4.5 billion years ago. The findings, recently published in the journal 'Icarus', suggest that these differences in comet disintegration are influenced by the conditions in the protopla