As Space Force Admits to Deploying Weapons in Orbit, US Contempt for Arms Control Continues
During a recent “State of the Space Force” address in Maryland, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess stated…
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Humanity’s 3rd Visit to Mercury Kicks Off with the Successful Arrival of BepiColombo Mission
On September 3rd, the European Space Agency marked the successful arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, just the…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Survives Attempted Budget Cuts to Launch 9 Months Early
9 months ahead of schedule, and surviving attempts in both Trump Administrations to cut its budget in half, the…
Firefly Aerospace Raises Over $800 Million on First Day on Wall Street
Firefly, a civil-commercial spaceflight company out of Texas, recently raised over $800 million on Wall Street during its initial…
Space Force Conducts First ‘Orbital Warfare’ Drill as Militarization of Space Continues
Approximately 700 US Space Force “Guardians,” along with 12,000 US airmen participated in the large-scale Resolute Space 2025 exercise…
House and Senate Committe Poised to Reject Trump’s NASA Budget Cut
The Senate Appropriations Committee is currently engaged in markup of an appropriations bill for Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS),…
As Japan Retires Reliable Rocket, Honda Motors Blasts Off into the Space Sector with Surprise Rocket Test
Surprising investors and industry experts alike, Honda Motor Company announced on June 17th that it had successfully tested its…
Global Space Economy Rockets Towards Half-Trillion Valuation Led by SpaceX’s 138 Launches Last Year
Space is no longer the domain of dreams and fiction. Particularly regarding the Earth’s orbital zones, it’s a domain…
SpaceX Cancellation, Dragon Capsule in Limbo, and US Space Policy Completely Upended
When the SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule was certified to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in 2020,…
NASA’s 25% Budget Cut Cancels Dozens of Science Projects to Fund Mars Exploration
The atmosphere of confusion and disarray communicated generally from several peripheral government agencies and departments since the second Trump…
America’s Weaponization of Space Continues Whilst NASA Sees Budget Cuts
Story at a glance… NASA is seeing flagship missions stall from lack of funding at the same time the…
On the Potential Upcoming Asteroid Colliding with Earth: We’ve Deflected Them Before and Can Do So Again
In January, an analysis was released by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) that concluded the planet faced…
SpaceX Polaris Dawn Success Heralds New Age in Spacesuit Innovation
Early Thursday morning at 7:58 a.m. ET, members of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew successfully completed the world’s first…
Lava Tubes and Water Frost Found on Mars Offer Double Opportunity in Search for Life
Yet more evidence for liquid water on Mars has been uncovered by a European space probe in the form…
Beijing Announces Date for Manned Mission to the Moon’s Surface in Rare Public Statement
Officials with the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO), who rarely comment on the details of future space missions,…
US Intelligence Contracting SpaceX to Build a Satellite Panopticon: ‘No one can hide’
“No one can hide,” one of five sources familiar with a classified program to construct a new global spy…
This Tiny Moon of Saturn Is the Smallest Case of a Subsurface Ocean Ever Found in the Solar System
It’s been known for a decade that Saturn’s icy moon of Enceladus almost certainly hides a subsurface ocean beneath…
Locked in a 4 Billion-Year-Old Dance, Six New Exoplanets Demonstrate the Cosmic Beauty of ‘Resonant Orbits’
Scientists have discovered 6 exoplanets orbiting in perfect resonance around a star, meaning their orbits are synchronized. Such a…
The US Space Force: Brand-Building, Woke Policy, and Economic Parasitism
The US Space Force is now 4 years old, and seems to be a microcosm (micro in the Pentagon…
Webb Detects Water Vapor Just Hanging Out in Space in a Fascinating Star’s Goldilocks Zone
In a fascinating star system 370 light-years from Earth, scientists studying with the James Webb Space Telescope have found…