#space

Starship Mars 2026 Mission: Expendable Chance: 85% (no change) Commitment Level: 1% (-24%) Final update, Week 46, in the series tracking odds of at least one uncrewed Starship heading to Mars in the late-2026

Stay Informed! Be in the Top 1% in Solar Awareness among the Human Species! "Eyes open, no fear!" - Daily Solar Alerts, World Weather, Space Watch, Earthquake Update and Much More News from Ben

Good evening everyone, Picture a star at least 33 times heavier than our Sun. Now picture it flaring up like a supernova, about three times a year, for 14 years. And still being there the next morning,

Blue Origin is the oldest company in this series, and by far the best funded. Yet its big orbital rocket, New Glenn, has flown just three times. Jeff Bezos founded it in 2000. It is based in Kent, Washington,

Two November Tenths Five years apart, both on 10 November. The Whole Earth, in Color Stardate 346.1251 (NOVEMBER 10, 1967) From geostationary height, ATS-3 turned its multicolor spin-scan camera toward

Stay Informed! Be in the Top 1% in Solar Awareness among the Human Species! "Eyes open, no fear!" - Daily Solar Alerts, World Weather, Space Watch, Earthquake Update and Much More News from Ben

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3449.1054. 🌌 "The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually,

Three November Ninths Fifty-nine years apart, all on 9 November. The Saturn V Finds Its Voice Stardate 345.9600 (NOVEMBER 9, 1967) Before dawn on the Florida coast the first Saturn V stood ready on a pad

Goals Orbital Starship recovery Recovery of a V3 Booster 26 V3 Starlink satellites 14 orbits ~ 22 hours mission duration The initial orbit is targeted at 275 km. Mission duration aims for 14 orbits in

On Saturday 7 Nov (Texas time) she rolled out of Megabay 2 and into Starbase's new Gigabay. She's the first vehicle ever inside that building, and the first in a Gigabay at Starbase or in Florida. She'd

Stay Informed! Be in the Top 1% in Solar Awareness among the Human Species! "Eyes open, no fear!" - Daily Solar Alerts, World Weather, Space Watch, Earthquake Update and Much More News from Ben

Classic Cosmos In this mid-infrared view from Webb's MIRI, the Cat's Head Nebula resembles a cat sitting with its back toward the viewer and a tail extending downward. It is a dust pillar in the Carina

KiwiThinker's log, supplemental - stardate 3448.9167 🌌 The Sun will eventually become a white dwarf - a stellar ember the size of Earth. #Q1Ls Enjoyed these space one-liners? The Fun Space Quotes 2027

Two November Eighths Thirty-nine years apart, both on 8 November. Germany's first craft Stardate 451.0192 (NOVEMBER 8, 1969) Before dawn in Europe, a Scout rocket rose from Vandenberg with Azur aboard.

🚀 Spacefarer Update 🚀 Number of people currently in space: 10 Comings and Goings This Week There have been no arrivals or departures this week. Current Space Occupants ISS Expedition 75: 7 spacefarers

Stay Informed! Be in the Top 1% in Solar Awareness among the Human Species! "Eyes open, no fear!" - Daily Solar Alerts, World Weather, Space Watch, Earthquake Update and Much More News from Ben

Today in Space History - The First Escape 🚀 Stardate 135.3120 (NOVEMBER 7, 1963) On a clear morning at White Sands, a boilerplate Apollo capsule waited on the desert floor with a launch escape tower above

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3448.6950. 🌌 "Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the

Most rocket companies try to get you to orbit. Impulse Space starts after that. Tom Mueller founded it in 2021, a few months after leaving SpaceX. He was SpaceX employee number one on the propulsion side

Dr. Judy Wood's EM 304 test problem and live news footage of the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and foam strike.