Terran R second stage heads to Stennis as Relativity advances toward 2026 debut
There’s an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole. We call it the rotation axis. For the Earth, the rotation axis points toward a bright star, Polaris, which is visible on clear nights in the Northern Hemisphere. If you want to know which way to spin your globe, make the goofy “thumbs-up”…
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary today, it’s worth noting a certain sense of irony that Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” seems oddly prescient into today’s AI-obsessed environment, especially when compared to the master director’s recently released “Disclosure Day,” which sadly feels three decades late to the whole governmental cover-up UFO/UAP party. “A.I. Artificial…
California-based launch company Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium. Rocket Lab has brought a variety of companies into its space systems architecture in recent years, but none of those previous purchases were as notable as the acquisition announced today (June 29). Rocket Lab and Iridium…
The universe is ready for its close-up! That’s because today marks the day that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins it’s 10-year mission to shoot the greatest cosmic move ever created. The decade-long project officially known as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is set to revolutionize our view of the universe. That…
NASA has awarded three new robotic missions to the Moon, taking another step toward its goal of building a permanent lunar base. The nearly $600 million initiative comes as the agency keeps its long-term plans on track despite recent setbacks involving one of its commercial launch partners. Before astronauts can spend extended periods on the…
Jezero Crater on Mars is a 45-kilometer-wide (28-mile) crater that once hosted a lake billions of years ago fed by two distinct river valleys with Jezero eventually forming an exit channel over time. One of Jezero’s most prominent features is the massive river delta that consists of sediments that were deposited as the inflow slowed…