Aerospace & Spaceflight Stranded Chinese Astronauts Expose Escalating Orbital Debris Threat David WhitakerDecember 4, 2025December 4, 20250 Would humanity risk its own astronauts to keep crowding low Earth orbit with satellites? That question has taken on new…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Jupiter’s Gravitational Edge and the Razor-Thin Path of 3I/ATLAS David WhitakerDecember 1, 2025December 5, 20250 One recent orbital analysis commented, “The distance of the comet 3I from Jupiter is very close to the Hill radius…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Tryptophan Discovery on Bennu Reveals Space-Cooked Ingredients for Life David WhitakerDecember 1, 2025December 5, 20250 “Asteroids were the early Earth’s grocery delivery service,” said Kate Freeman of Penn State University, commenting on finding one such…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Rare ‘Mini-Lightning’ on Mars Revealed by Perseverance’s Accidental Audio David WhitakerDecember 1, 2025December 4, 20250 “It is like finding a missing piece of the puzzle,” said Dr. Baptiste Chide in describing the faint twinkling of…
Aerospace & Spaceflight SpaceX’s Transporter-15 Marks 140 Deployments and Booster’s 30th Flight David WhitakerDecember 1, 2025December 4, 20250 “Every mission is different, and our strength lies in tailoring integration approaches for payloads that don’t fit a one-size-fits-all model,”…
Drones & Unmanned Systems NASA-Backed Drone Challenge Accelerates STEM Learning in Schools David WhitakerDecember 1, 2025December 4, 20250 The greatest movement in STEM education may well be occurring in the school gym or auditorium instead of in the…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Damage at Baikonur’s Only ISS?Ready Soyuz Pad Sparks Operational Concerns David WhitakerDecember 1, 2025December 4, 20250 A 20?metric?ton service platform falling into a flame trench is not the kind of post?launch headline any space agency wants….
Aerospace & Spaceflight NASA Confirms First Martian Lightning Sparks with Perseverance David WhitakerNovember 28, 2025December 4, 20250 It is no longer a theory but a fact that sparks happen on Mars. For the first time in recorded…
Aerospace & Spaceflight First Recorded ‘Mini Lightning’ on Mars Could Shape Future Exploration David WhitakerNovember 28, 2025December 4, 20250 Could a spark no more than a few millimeters long change the way humans explore Mars? First direct evidence that…