A Cubesat Deployed a De-Orbiting Tether and Now it’s Losing Altitude 24 Times Faster than Before
A company called Tethers Unlimited has deployed its de-orbiting tether in a successful test on the Prox-1 satellite. The satellite…
A Television Satellite Might be About to Explode
A DirecTV satellite suffered a battery failure and now has to be de-orbited. Otherwise, it could cause a collision and…
Carnival of Space #648
Carnival of Space. Image by Jason Major. This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com…
The Brightest Supernova Ever Seen was Caused by a White Dwarf Spiraling into a Red Giant
Super-luminous supernovae are the brightest explosions in the Universe. In just a few months, a super-luminous supernova can release as…
ESA is Going to Test Two Rovers Working Together to Explore the Moon
The ESA is working on a system (TRAILER) that will allow two robots to work in tandem and explore the…
The Apollo 1 Fire: Excerpt from “Eight Years to the Moon”
Editor’s note: Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts during a routine test…
Stalking Starlink’s ‘DarkSat’
By now, you've no doubt heard of (or seen) Starlink. SpaceX’s mega-satellite constellation has become a permanent fixture in our…
China Releases New Pictures From the Surface of the Moon
China's Chang'e-4 mission just released a trove of data collected by the lander and rover during its year-long exploration of…
Giant Planets Could Form Around Tiny Stars in Just a Few Thousand Years
A new study has shown how gas giants (like Proxima c) can exist around Red Dwarf suns, the most common…
OSIRIS-REx Flew 620 Meters Above its Landing Site. Confirms that it’s a Boulder-Strewn Nightmare, Just Like the Rest of Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu), on December 3rd, 2018. Since then, the spacecraft has been…