NASA’s Voyager Probes Are Running Out of Power and Every Watt Now Matters
Fifty years since launch, the Voyager spacecraft operate in an era in which a few watts determine whether an instrument…
Aerospace & Spaceflight
Why Two Navy F-14s Rushed a Mach 2 Concorde
How difficult would it be for an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound to become an unidentified target…
SpaceX’s New Starlink Video Shows How 29 Satellites Spread Out
A newly leaked onboard video transforms what is becoming one of the most familiar sights in contemporary aerospace into something…
NASA’s X-59 Nears Supersonic Speed With a High-Stakes Noise Test Ahead
“The envelope expansion phase of any experimental aircraft is critical, not just for pushing the aircraft higher and faster, but…
Webb’s Little Red Dots May Expose How Giant Black Holes Begin
Hundreds of small red dots captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope might just show the beginning stages of supermassive…
Ariane 6 Faces a Bigger Test Than 32 Amazon Satellites
What does Europe’s new heavy launcher really prove when it lifts another batch of internet satellites? Ariane 6 is due…
Falcon 9 Debris May Carve a New Moon Crater in August
We have another upper stage which is going to hit the Moon in the near future; it will happen in…
Artemis 3 Rocket Stage Reaches Florida as NASA Reworks Moon Mission
“This is the backbone of Artemis III,” NASA’s Lori Glaze said regarding the delivery of the core component for the…
Northern Lights May Strengthen Tonight as Faster Solar Wind Reaches Earth
Fast solar winds tend to be a quiet trigger for some of the best nights of northern auroras. This is…