Aerospace

Spaceport America's Spaceport Operations Center. Credit: Spaceport America/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Spaceport America: New Mexico’s Protracted Hope for a Revived Economy

Maggie Grimason 18/05/2018

Just over a decade ago, Spaceport America promised great...

A view of Jupiter's moon Europa created from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990's, according to NASA, obtained by Reuters May 14, 2018. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/ Handout via Reuters

Water Plumes Make Jupiter Moon Europa Prime Candidate for Life

Will Dunham 16/05/2018

A bend in Europa's magnetic field observed by NASA's Galileo...

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Digging Through Long-Archived Data for the Next Big Discovery in Astronomy

Eileen Meyer 15/05/2018

Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data...

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SpaceX Postpones First Commercial Launch of Updated Falcon 9 Rocket

Joey Roulette 11/05/2018

The countdown was halted about one minute before the...

The James Webb Space Telescope undergoes tests at a NASA facility. Credit: NASA

NASA Telescope Runs Into Fresh Problems as Officials Keep an Eye on Finances

Vishwam Sankaran 08/05/2018

Some scientists believe that spending more on the James...

On June 29, 2017, an Ariane 5 rocket launched the GSAT-17 and Hellas Sat 3-Inmarsat S EAN satellites into a geostationary transfer orbit. Credit: Arianespace

ISRO Recalls GSAT-11 From Spaceport to Perform Additional Tests

The Wire Staff 28/04/2018

The 5,800 kg satellite when functional can provide a...

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The SpaceX Launch That Punched a Hole in Earth’s Ionosphere

Ronak Gupta 19/04/2018

It generated circular shockwaves reportedly as big as Maharashtra,...