Space Junk
America to Make Its First Moon Landing in Decades on February 22, Here's How to Watch Live
21 Feb 2024, 08:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and Intuitive Machines are planning to land to Nova-C lander called Odysseus in the Malapert A region of the Moon on Thursday, February 22
Boeing Recoverable Launch Booster Would Have Been the Beauty Queen of Space Rockets
19 Feb 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An animation showing the Boeing Model 832-40 winged double-body booster in action gives us a glimpse of what the world missed out on in space exploration
Soviet Polyblock Rocket Could Have Dropped the Tsar Nuclear Bomb Right on America's Lap
2 Feb 2024, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new animation video imagines the flight of a Russian rocket that never came to be, the Tsar bomb-capable R-56 polublock
World's Smallest Spacecraft Completes Astronaut Testing Inside an Airplane
1 Feb 2024, 11:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aerospace company Collins announced it has completed astronaut testing for its spacewalk suit, a hardware described as the world's smalles spacecraft
SpaceX Starship to Launch a Fully-Assembled Space Station to Low-Eart Orbit
1 Feb 2024, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The station being built by Voyager Space and Airbus, the Starlab, will be transported to low-Earth orbit by the SpaceX Starship
Humans Training in New Artemis Spacesuits Look Like Children Playing in the Sandbox
30 Jan 2024, 09:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and Axiom Space tested the Artemis III spacesuits at the Johnson Space Center, will soon move to the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
NASA Finally Defeats Stubborn Fasteners in Epic Fight for Samples of an Alien World
22 Jan 2024, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA says it now has full access to the contents of the OSIRIS-REx sampler, should retrieve all asteroid pieces soon
Sierra Space's New Inflatable Space Habitat Pushed to Destruction in Burst Test
22 Jan 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center playing the host, Sierra Space just concluded its first full-scale structural test for a semi-rigid space station.
America Botches First Lunar Lander Mission in Decades, Peregrine Will Not Reach the Moon
9 Jan 2024, 09:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Peregrine lunar lander mission has failed, after a fuel leak prevented the spacecraft from pointing itself at the Sun.
Four Telescopes Were Needed to Make This Amazing Pic of Not One, But Two Exploded Stars
5 Jan 2024, 11:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / New image of space compiled with data from four telescopes shows the remnants of two massive supernovas in the the Large Magellanic Cloud
Here's How You Can Beat NASA's Artemis Astronauts to the Moon
5 Jan 2024, 11:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it will be sending human names to the Moon with the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission
NASA's First-Ever Lunar Rover Is Half-Baked, Smells Like 2024 Launch After All
3 Jan 2024, 10:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is halfway through the build, all seems on track for late 2024 launch
Secret X-37B Spaceplane Now in Orbit for Seventh Mission, What Record Will It Break Now?
3 Jan 2024, 09:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceX launched at the end of December 2023 the Boeing X-37B spaceplane on its seventh mission, like all the previous ones this is a secret too
NASA Snaps Incredible Pic of Sol's Most Volcanic World From Just 930 Miles Away
3 Jan 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA mission Juno comes within just 930 miles (1,500 km) from the surface of Jupiter Moon Io, snaps this breathtaking photo
NASA and Roscosmos Put Ukraine Aside, Agree to Cooperate On ISS Until 2025
28 Dec 2023, 17:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In a report first dropped by Reuters and corroborated by The Moscow Times, a tentative agreement between Roscosmos and NASA will collab on ISS for now.
NASA's Rotating Detonation Engine Screams Like an Alien When Fired for Record Burn
21 Dec 2023, 10:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it reached a new milestone in the testing of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE), firing it for over four minutes
Spaceship Flying Strapped to a Balloon Instead of a Rocket Looks Smaller Than Expected IRL
19 Dec 2023, 08:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first images of the Neptune balloon-carried spaceship kind of makes us feel it looks smaller that we were expecting from a capsule meant to carry eight
This Is How a Brand New Rover Plans to Dig Deep, Looking for Little Green Men on Mars
14 Dec 2023, 08:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) released a trailer for the "most accurate animation series made so far of a Mars mission," see it inside
Northrop Grumman Builds a New Solid Rocket Motor in Less Than a Year, Fires It Up
11 Dec 2023, 07:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is running an R&D program called SMART Demo that allowed it to make a new rocket motor in less than a year
Russian-Made Kliper Spaceplane Would Have Looked Like a Penguin Floating in Orbit
6 Dec 2023, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new CGI video breathes life into yet another spacecraft project that was never realized, the Kliper spaceplane imagined in Russia.