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Steve Wozniak's startup Privateer plans to launch hundreds of satellites to study space debris

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's startup Privateer aims to help humanity get the goods on space junk before it's too late. The Hawaii-based company, whose existence Wozniak and co-founder Alex Fielding announced in September, wants to characterize the ...

How to photograph a lunar eclipse

Lunar eclipses are more common than the perhaps better-known solar eclipses but they're no less spectacular from a photographic point of view. Instead of capturing the blocked outline of the sun, photographers can aim their cameras at a moon that's tinted ...

Russian anti-satellite missile test was the first of its kind

While nations including Russia have conducted ASAT tests before, this test was something different. Over the years, multiple nations including the U.S. have developed and tested ASAT technology. In 2007, China ...

SpaceX targets January or February for first launch of world's largest rocket

As he did before the debut of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, Musk tried to manage expectations on the outcome of the first Starship orbital launch attempt. "We've completed the first orbital ...

Northrop Grumman reveals plans for new astronaut moon buggy

Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman announced on Tuesday (Nov. 16) that it's leading a private team designing a crewed Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for potential use by NASA's Artemis program, which aims to establish a sustainable human presence on and around ...

Rocket Lab launches 2 satellites to orbit, attempts Electron booster recovery

Rocket Lab successfully launched two satellites into orbit and aimed to recover the mission's booster, taking another step in its quest to build a partially reusable launch vehicle. The company's two-stage Electron rocket topped with two commercial ...

SpaceX could launch 1st Starship to orbit in January, Elon Musk says

The company is targeting January or February for its first Starship orbital launch attempt, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday (Nov. 17). And that initial landmark leap will ideally be followed by a number of others shortly thereafter.

NASA's DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse

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Scientific American

But Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Baltimore, has found himself with more responsibility than he expected. Along with hundreds of others, he is part of ...

SpaceX is about to break its own annual launch record

After a lull in launch activity the last few months, SpaceX plans to close out 2021 with a spurt of missions from all three of the company's active launch pads in Florida and California, with five or more Falcon 9 flights planned before the end of the year ...

Beaver Moon lunar eclipse 2021: Here's how to watch it online

Jump to: Griffith Observatory webcast; Time and Date webcast; Virtual Telescope Project webcast; Astronomical Society of South Australia webcast. Click here ...