After serving valiantly for 30 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is going to formally pass the torch as NASA's premier space telescope to its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. On December 7th, it arrived in Guiana, France, where it's currently...
In A Trip to the Moon (George Melies, 1902), a genre-defining science-fiction movie, people travel to the moon in a capsule launched from a canon. Of course, the method is unrealistic for various reasons, and the comedic nature of the depiction reflects that.Since...
Last week, we covered RocketLab and their spectacular new means of recovering their Electron rocket. Reading that article, one will likely understand that they want to achieve cost-effectiveness and short turnarounds. On December 2, they announced new details on their...
We are on our way back to the moon, and this time our stay will hopefully endure longer than during the Apollo program. Hopefully, we'll be able to build colonies on the moon, but for that to happen, we need to be able to live off the resources available...
Presented by Amazon Web ServicesBy using data collected from space, we create a better world here on Earth. It's one of Amazon's mottos. And also Clinton Crosiers. Crosier, a former Major General of the US Air Force and head of the Pentagon's space...
On November 18, Rocket Lab performed the 22nd launch of their reusable Electron rocket. The craft descended using a parachute, splashed down, and could successfully be retrieved. Within 80 minutes of liftoff, the company's engineers had begun securing the...