BETHEL, Maine—A Maine museum will play host to a chunk of rock it said is the largest intact Mars rock on Earth. The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum said the specimen weighs 32 pounds and is about 10 inches at its longest point. The museum said the rock was the result of an asteroid impact…
CCP’s Anti-Satellite Weapons Present Complex Challenge for US: Experts
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued to develop an array of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons designed to overwhelm U.S. assets in space, even as advisers to the Biden administration issued calls for cooperation between the two nations. The CCP’s growing arsenal of space weapons now includes missiles, cyberweapons, satellite jamming devices, space robots with grabbing…
Blue Origin Launches Artwork, Moon-Landing Test Into Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Blue Origin launched artwork painted on a capsule and a moon-landing navigation experiment into space Thursday, a month after sending founder Jeff Bezos on the company’s first passenger flight. No one was aboard for Thursday’s 10-minute flight, which included other experiments from NASA and others. The paintings by Ghana artist Amoako Boafo were…
Mystery of Space Inspired New Zealand Rocket Man’s Journey to Nasdaq
WELLINGTON—New Zealand entrepreneur Peter Beck said his space firm Rocket Lab was the result of a lifelong quest for signs of life outside earth, as the startup hit a new milestone with a Nasdaq listing on Thursday. The small satellite launch firm, often compared to Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk’s SpaceX, listed on the Nasdaq…
Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Captures Venus Glare
This is the moment Solar Orbiter passed Venus earlier this month. The images show a dark area of the planet that is hidden from the Sun and a bright crescent of light—glare from Venus’s incredibly bright sunlit side. The footage was filmed by the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager, SoloHI, as the spacecraft made its second…
Branson’s Virgin Orbit to Go Public Through $3.2 Billion SPAC Merger
Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, a small satellite launch service provider, is going public through a merger with a blank-check vehicle that values it at about $3.2 billion. The deal with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, announced on Monday, includes $100 million in funding from Boeing Co, AE Industrial Partners, and others in the form of…
Taiwan to Launch a Rocket from Australia
Australian company Southern Launch will send a Taiwanese rocket into space in Australia’s first major launch since the 1960s. Taiwanese company tiSPACE will launch its Hapith I—a ten meter rocket—from Southern Launch’s complex, 680km west of Adelaide later this year. Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Christian Porter, announced the launch approval on Aug. 23, saying…
Astronaut’s Undisclosed Minor Medical Issue Delays Spacewalk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA is delaying a spacewalk at the International Space Station this week because of an undisclosed medical issue involving one of its astronauts. Officials announced the postponement Monday, less than 24 hours before Mark Vande Hei was supposed to float outside. Vande Hei is dealing with “a minor medical issue,” officials said in…
Elon Musk Teams up With Netflix to Stream SpaceX Space Mission in ‘Near Real Time’
By Entrepreneur Staff September 15, 2021 is the scheduled date for the launch of the Inspiration4 mission, the first to send a ship occupied only by civilians into space. The space travel aboard a rocket from SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, will be broadcast on Netflix in “near real time.” This Thursday, the streaming platform announced the launch…
Elon Musk’s Satellites Beam Internet Into Remote Chilean Fishing Hamlet
SOTOMO, Chile—After half an hour’s windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerrero can finally access the internet. His school is located in the hamlet of Sotomo, around 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Santiago in the region…
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