Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter....
We noticed this community was abandoned by its previous founder and moderators, and so we’re here to help it thrive again!...
DSN needs more bandwidth to handle everything they want to throw at it, but isn’t getting the budget
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/8492311...
The annular solar eclipse will be visible across North, Central, and South America on October 14. It’s the last one for the U.S. until 2039.
When JAXA’s Hayabusa-1 spacecraft delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in late 2020, anticipation was high. What could the space rock possibly be waiting to tell us?...
The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space’s capsule to return and land on Earth....
To my fellow lemmonades,...
What are the risks, by the numbers? How many asteroids hit Earth and how many can we expect to zip past us?
While rovers have made incredible discoveries, their wheels can hold them back, and erratic terrain can mean damage. There is no replacing something like Perseverance, but sometimes rovers could use a leg up, and they could get that from a small swarm of four-legged robots.
