NASA Lost Contact With a Key Mars Orbiter for Good
What happens to a space agency if a spacecraft goes behind a planet and won’t come back out? After a…
Aerospace & Spaceflight
NASA’s Roman Telescope Cleared a Final Mirror Test With Bigger Stakes Than Hubble
On a surface flatter than dust can show can be up or down a space telescope. This was not just…
Neil Armstrong’s Lost Spaceplane Points to Today’s Secret Orbital Race
When the hardware is in place, pilots have been selected, and it feels like it just couldn’t happen in its…
America Hit Mach 9.6, Then Shelved the Mach 15 Follow-Up
“Scramjet-powered vehicles are envisioned to operate at speeds up to at least Mach 15,” NASA said after this program for…
Why America’s Mach 3 Valkyrie Never Became a Real Bomber
What if you design an aircraft that can’t be outwitted or outrun in the sky, but the sky changes before…
Why 4,000 Missiles Still Couldn’t Stop the SR-71
When getting a glimpse of a missile attack, one of the most bizarre engagement strategies of the SR-71 Blackbird was…
Alien Planet Winds Hit 15,000 MPH and Expose Hidden Magnetic Shields
How is an invisible magnetic field observed around a planet, so far away that it is several tens or hundreds…
FAA Grounds Starship After Booster Burn Fails Mid-Descent
The new delay for Starship isn’t really another test test just because the starship has left the realm of being…
NASA’s Plan to Save Swift Depends on a Difficult Orbital Chase
If an engineer could rescue a still working telescope in the fall, which is going down, and never is able…