GPS III SV-09 reaches orbit as Space Force trades launches to speed anti-jam upgrades
Over 4 billion users of GPS use the system daily, although more fundamental upgrades are being inspired by a lesser-known…
Aerospace & Spaceflight
Key checkpoints before Artemis II’s moon rocket can commit to a launch date
The Artemis II stack can be launch-ready many months before being launch-committed. The remaining work with the Space Launch System,…
Orion “Integrity” Tests the Unseen Systems That Make Artemis II Work
“Hope does not belong to management techniques.” David Beaman, Artemis II focuses on the most obvious hardware of the human…
SLS and Orion rehearse the hard part: fueling Artemis II without a crew
“Crew safety will remain our top priority at every turn, as we near humanity’s return to the Moon.” The quote,…
Orion’s Artemis II crew turns a lunar flyby into a full-system checkout
Artemis II is created in such a way that the crew is not merely being carried to the Moon but…
Artemis II puts lunar “rules of the road” at the center of the next Moon era
In April 1970, the crippled spacecraft was publicized when Apollo 13 went round the back of the moon and was…
SpaceX asks regulators to clear a million satellites for orbital AI servers
So how long could a data centre take before it could cease relying on a river-cooled industrial park to supply…
Starliner’s Uncrewed ISS Run Turns Propulsion Fixes Into the Whole Program’s Test
The best lesson of the initial astronaut mission of Starliner was not the precision of docking or the amount of…
Musk Wants a Million Satellites to Compute in Sunlight Engineers See the Bottlenecks
“The satellites will actually be so far apart that it will be hard to see from one to another,” this…