SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others want enormous orbital data center constellations, prompting warnings over atmospheric pollution, debris, and an astronomy problem satellites are already making worse.
Astronomers have found strong evidence for a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf, potentially marking the first convincing detection of a moon beyond our solar system.
If there’s a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
Google spent years as a low-key backer of SpaceX. This week it showed what that patience is worth. In a quarterly filing, Alphabet said its Google unit holds $94.1bn in SpaceX shares, following the rocket company’s record IPO. Google was an early inves…
When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy’s most precise disappearing acts to date. The telescope will carry the first space-bound “active” coronagraph, an instrument that effectively erases most of the light from a star during photography. It will allow astronomers…
NASA researchers also tested out the Psyche spacecraft’s other instruments to make sure they were working.
Eight NATO allies have launched an initiative to connect their military satellites into a single networked mega-constellation, marking the Alliance’s most ambitious move yet to treat space as shared operational infrastructure rather than a collection o…
Munich-based space startup deltaVision has raised €10.2 million in its first outside funding round, money earmarked for scaling production of the valves, pumps and pressure regulators that shuttle propellant around spacecraft. The company also wants to…
Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX – a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced – is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does […]
SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chic…