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2:49am, 11th April, 2019

Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain Review

I have this thing. I hate cucumber. I hate it so much. But no matter how much I explain why, most people don’t understand. I must just taste it differently than other people. It’s a fundamental, maybe even genetic difference. I get it, others don’t....

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

10:52pm, 5th March, 2019

Space

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

An image captured by the Beresheet lunar lander shows a plaque with the Israeli flag in the foreground, and Earth in the background. (Beresheet / SpaceIL Photo) An Israeli lunar lander gets photobombed by Earth in a selfie released today by SpaceIL’s...

12:02pm, 9th February, 2019

Space

SpaceX seeks FCC approval for up to 1M Starlink satellite earth stations

A simulation shows how a 4,425-satellite constellation could be deployed for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service. (Mark Handley / University College London) SpaceX has opened a new window into its ambitious plans for a global satellite broad...

9:07pm, 8th February, 2019

Space

SpaceX seeks FCC approval for up to a million Starlink satellite earth stations

A simulation shows how a 4,425-satellite constellation could be deployed for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service. (Mark Handley / University College London) SpaceX has opened a new window into its ambitious plans for a global satellite broad...

2:54pm, 15th November, 2018

Space

FCC OKs SpaceX’s plan for 7,500 satellites in very low Earth orbit (and its rivals’ plans)

An artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (OneWeb Illustration) The Federal Communications Commission today gave the go-ahead for SpaceX to operate a constellation of more than 7,500 broadband access satellites in very low...

2:58pm, 4th October, 2018

Space

U.S.-Russian trio returns to Earth from space station on Sputnik anniversary

At the end of its parachute, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft fires its landing pyrotechnic devices as it touches down, bringing a U.S.-Russian crew back to Earth from the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) What better way to celebrat...

NASAs 60th anniversary How a tiny agency grew up and put a man on the moon

6:14am, 1st October, 2018

News

NASAs 60th anniversary How a tiny agency grew up and put a man on the moon

NASA is now 60 years old, but its origins stretch back even farther. Since 1915, the US government has explored flight research, but it wasn't until decades later ...

NASA turns 60! (and has no plans to retire) Watch This Space

5:03pm, 28th September, 2018

News

NASA turns 60! (and has no plans to retire) Watch This Space

NASA is 60 years young! From the early Eisenhower days of racing against Soviet dogs to working with tech giants for the modern mission to Mars, the space ...

Are we alone? NASA turns to the search for technosignatures beyond Earth

3:46pm, 25th September, 2018

Space

Are we alone? NASA turns to the search for technosignatures beyond Earth

An artist’s representation shows a megastructure known as a Dyson sphere capturing the energy from a distant star. Such a structure could create observable technosignatures pointing to the civilization behind its construction. (Credit: Danielle Futse...

1:58pm, 11th September, 2018

Space

Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight’s first move beyond low Earth orbit

An artist’s conception shows SpaceIL’s Sparrow lunar lander on the moon’s surface. (SpaceIL Illustration) is go for launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that’s due to send a telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous orbit...