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It’s getting harder and harder for the Hubble and other telescopes orbiting Earth to capture pristine images thanks to the sudden surge in satellite launches. Satellite trails could mess up nearly 40 percent of images the Hubble takes and up to 96 percent of those taken by three other telescopes over the next decade, according […]
Antares is designing and building small modular reactors that it plans to deploy for commercial, space, and defense applications.
CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn’t “in the space industry; we’re in-space industry,” he said. Space is “just another place to ship to.”
In June of this year, Honda launched and landed a prototype, 20-foot-long reusable rocket at its research facility in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. Though the company is known mainly as an innovative and iterative carmaker, it is also a transportation conglomerate, having developed and produced motorcycles, scooters, e-bikes, ATVs, boat motors, and even jets. Its […]
The discovery suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected.
The nine-engine variant can carry larger payloads and more closely matches the capabilities of SpaceX’s largest rocket, Starship.
The company has been quietly changing how it talks about who its internet customers will be before it announced a big name change last week.
