The National Interest17h
MiG-105 Spiral: The Little-Known Soviet Starfighter
The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...
Interesting Engineering15d
The Militarization of Space: What Would a “Space Force” Look Like?
The Soviets also experimented with arming military space stations (see Almaz, below) with the Rikhter R-23 autocannon. These guns were developed for Soviet aircraft and fired 23mm slugs at a rate ...
Space.com19d
NASA delays launch of SPHEREx and PUNCH missions to March 8
NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions five times — they were originally slated to take to the ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston20d
SpaceX's latest Starship mega rocket test flight ends with another explosion
It was not immediately known whether the spacecraft's self-destruct system had kicked in to blow it up.The 403-foot rocket blasted off from Texas. SpaceX caught the first-stage booster back at the ...
Florida Today21d
SpaceX confirms: Gigabay coming, and Starship launch from Florida by end of year
SpaceX has announced plans to launch Starship from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A by the end of the year. Construction of the SpaceX Gigabay, a facility for stacking and finalizing Starship ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation22d
Stranded US astronauts expected to return home after nine months in space
Two NASA astronauts are expected to come home this month after being stranded in space since June. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but their ...
Yahoo Finance23d
US firm Firefly scores its first moon landing with Blue Ghost spacecraft
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful ...
CNN23d
SpaceX’s Starship: The most powerful rocket ever built calls off first flight attempt since explosive mishap
The company only stacked the Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster this morning. Such last-minute assembly is not common in the world of rocketry. Huot said the company opted to wait to ...
CNN23d
SpaceX calls off attempt to launch Starship’s 8th test flight
During the last Starship test run in January, the spacecraft exploded over the Caribbean, damaged a car, and littered populated islands with debris. One noteworthy point: The company only stacked ...
IFLScience23d
"We Ran Into Some Massive Issues": Private Spacecraft Lost 300,000 Kilometers From Earth
A private mission on its way to deep space has encountered "massive issues" shortly after departing the Earth. On February 26, space firm AstroForge launched its new spacecraft, Odin, into space ...
MarketWatch23d
Space stocks climb after successful private landing on the Moon
Space stocks are climbing in premarket trade on Monday, after the private space company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed on the Moon. The Cedar Park, Texas-based company said that its ...