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In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Kymeta’s Ryan Stevenson. They discuss the benefits and challenges of multi-orbit and multi-band connectivity in a single terminal. About Space Minds Space Minds is a new audio and video podcast from SpaceNews that focuses on the inspiring leaders, technologies and exciting opportunities in space. The…
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, satellites Vela 3 and 4 make the first detection of gamma-ray bursts. Vela 4 was actually two separate satellites made up of nine instruments. It launched in April 1967. Credit: energy.gov/Wikimedia On July 2, 1967, the U.S.’s Vela 3 and 4 satellites, originally launched to…
Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial public offering of SpaceX. Investors are not simply betting on rockets anymore. They are betting on an entire orbital ecosystem. Among the most ambitious and challenging ideas riding this…
The bill also takes a measured step toward addressing NASA’s workforce crisis. The report supports the new “NASA Force” effort to rebuild the agency’s core competencies, language that amounts to an acknowledgment that 2025 was a damaging year for NASA. More than 4,000 civil servants were pressured to leave during the leadership vacuum that preceded…
Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded on Mars and must somehow find a way to grow potatoes in the planet’s unforgiving, ochre soil before he starves. This is the plot of The Martian, which is very much a work of fiction. But for a real-life space botanist, look no further than Jessica Atkin. Her skills might…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has found two “super-puff” planets in the same system, each one as light as cotton candy. The post Cotton-Candy Exoplanets: Two for the Price of One! appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
No done deals Still, HWO will have its work cut out for it. Even if it is lucky enough to detect a promising signal from a planet, Hammel says, the mission’s science team will need to be able to tease out all the relevant information they can to build up a complete picture of what…
Heads up aurora chasers! The sun has been very busy. After unleashing an X1.1 solar flare on June 30, the sun continued its outburst by firing off 10 M-class solar flares in 24 hours! Several of these eruptions were accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that appear to be at least partially Earth-directed. Exactly how…
The weather cover for the Artemis 3 SLS core stage arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. (Image credit: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest) Did a flying saucer just land at NASA? It sure looks like it. This is actually the weather cover for the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is currently gearing…
Science & Exploration 01/07/2026 1022 views 25 likes The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy, the Milky Way. By measuring the distance to these echoes, they find the outer arms to be up to…