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SpaceX Confident About Its Starlink Constellation for Satellite Internet; Others, Not So Much

6 Jan

Illustration from FCC filing showing Swarm’s proposed 150-satellite constellation.

Swarm Wants to Send Hundreds of Tiny CubeSats Into Orbit

3 Jan

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Musk vs. Bezos: The Battle of the Space Billionaires Heats Up

1 Jan

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Fast Trains Are Energy Efficient (And Fast)

26 Dec 2018

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Here Are the Odds That One of SpaceX’s Internet Satellites Will Hit Someone

17 Dec 2018

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Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during the Apollo 14 transposition and docking maneuvers.

Don Eyles: Space Hacker

10 Jul 2018

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Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope

6 Jan 2018

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Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk

29 Jul 2017

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NASA Tests Origami-Inspired Robot That May One Day Explore Mars

13 May 2017

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A Gyroscope Jetpack for Astronauts

23 Nov 2015

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Andy Weir on The Martian, Mars, and the Movie

2 Oct 2015

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NASA Remakes the Airplane Wing With Electric Propulsion and a Whole Lot of Propellers

24 Jul 2018

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Hybrid Electric Airliners Will Cut Emissions—and Noise

1 Jun 2018

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Zunum Aero’s Hybrid Electric Airplane Aims To Rejuvenate Regional Travel

26 Apr 2018

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Why Your GPS Receiver Isn’t Bigger Than a Breadbox

19 Apr 2018

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Fiber Lasers Mean Ray Guns Are Coming

27 Mar 2018

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Zipline Expands Its Medical Delivery Drones Across East Africa

2 Jan 2018

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Parts of an engine of the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 are recovered from the sea during search operations in the Java Sea, north of Karawang on November 3, 2018.

Indonesia Releases Preliminary Report on Lion Air Crash

30 Nov 2018

The Passive Seismic Experiment was the first seismometer placed on the Moon’s surface at the Sea of Traquility.

Old Lunar Data Gets New Life, With Help From Seismologists

28 Nov 2018

Illustration of the MarCO cubesats and InSight Lander approaching Mars and relaying back to Earth.

InSight Mission Shows That CubeSats Can Relay Messages From Deep Space

26 Nov 2018

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China Gears Up for Ambitious Landing on the Moon’s Far Side

21 Nov 2018

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An Airplane With No Moving Parts

21 Nov 2018

An artist's rendering depicts CubeSats being deployed from SpaceX's SSO-A spacecraft.

SpaceX to Launch CubeSat Containing “Soul” of First African American Astronaut

13 Nov 2018

Simulating Lightning Attachment and Strikes on Aircraft

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From World War II Radar to Microwave Popcorn, the Cavity Magnetron Was There

31 Oct 2018

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How NASA Will Use Robots to Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil

30 Oct 2018

Cybersecurity, or the lack thereof, is a big issue for U.S. Department of Defense weapon systems

Slipshod Cybersecurity for U.S. Defense Dept. Weapons Systems

15 Oct 2018

The ALPHA-g detector

New ALPHA-g Detector Poised to Search for Signs of Antigravity

12 Oct 2018

A Soyuz-FG rocket booster blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague prior to failure.

Getting Back to the Space Station

11 Oct 2018

Researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore building rugged and compact QKD instruments for spaceflight.

Singapore and United Kingdom Plan Quantum CubeSat for 2021 Launch

3 Oct 2018

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Is There a Giant Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto?

3 Oct 2018

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New Spot-Beam Antennas Boost Communication Satellites’ Bandwidth

28 Sep 2018

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60 Years Ago This Month: The Boeing 707 Flies to Paris

26 Sep 2018

DARPA's LUKE prosthetic arm.

60 Years of DARPA's Favorite Toys

26 Sep 2018

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Are Delivery Drones Commercially Viable? Iceland Is About to Find Out

26 Sep 2018

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