As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...

Alas, the miracle could not last. The solar storms were heating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to inflate and increase ...

Space company SpinLaunch is trying to re-invent the system for launching craft off of our world and into space. The goal is ...

A groundbreaking new technology is set to change the way we send satellites into space, offering a cleaner, more ...

Interestingly, the spacecraft would use an innovative propulsion method: lightsails. These types of reflective sails use the pressure from lasers or starlight to propel spacecraft. These ultrathin ...

Credit: Gitai Space robotics startup Gitai says it has successfully completed the demonstration of its in-house developed 16U cubesat, called SC1, which is a forerunner to the company developing ...

Otter, a 6U CubeSat, will carry one primary payload and a pair of secondary payloads, NRO said Friday. The primary payload, dubbed Tui, will work to characterize and validate the performance of ...

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Supermassive black holes are spinning faster than previously thought, challenging the notion that they primarily form through galaxy mergers. Instead, their ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...

In our last CFG issue, we featured the groundbreaking Total Management Contract (TCM) which the Paris-based ECS Group recently signed with South America’s leading low-cost carrier group: JetSMART ...