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NASA Approves 'Load-and-Go' Fueling for SpaceX Commercial Crew Launches
August 22, 2018 | ArticleNASA announced Aug. 17 that it will allow SpaceX to use a fueling approach for its commercial crew missions that attracted prior scrutiny, pending a final series of tests.
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US Air Force Zooms Ahead on 2 New Hypersonic Weapons Plans
August 20, 2018 | ArticleOver the last four months, the U.S. Air Force has awarded two contracts for hypersonic weapons worth a maximum of $1.4 billion to aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
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Pseudo-Satellite Drone Flies for 25 Days Straight, Sets Endurance Record
August 20, 2018 | ArticleThe Zephyr drone could be used for military reconnaissance and wildfire monitoring, among other activities.
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Will We Ever Stop Using Rockets to Get to Space?
August 19, 2018 | ArticleOn March 16, 1926 in Auburn, Massachusetts, American engineer Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. The flight lasted a mere 2.5 seconds and ended anticlimactically 181 feet away in a snow-covered cabbage field.
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'Space Heroes' Trading Card Game Sets Up Space Race Between Players
August 17, 2018 | ArticleDo you hold the cards to win a space race? That is the challenge laid out by "Space Heroes: Journey to Space."
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NASA Says RS-25 Engine Test for New Megarocket a Success Despite Ending Early
August 17, 2018 | ArticleNASA says an Aug. 14 test of an engine for the Space Launch System was a success despite an unspecified "facility issue" that caused the test to end early.
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Plasma Scientists Created Invisible, Whooping 'Whistlers' in a Lab
August 17, 2018 | ArticleThe strange radio bursts usually circle the Earth like electromagnetic ghosts, but scientists have now created and studied their shapes in a plasma chamber on Earth.
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NASA Has a Wild Idea to Weigh Asteroids with a Swarm of Mini Probes
August 16, 2018 | ArticleAsteroids are all around us in space — but they're awfully difficult to weigh
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'No Encryption, No Fly' Rule Proposed for Small Satellites
August 16, 2018 | ArticleSmall satellites that have propulsion systems, but don't have encrypted commanding systems, pose a small but real threat of being hacked and endangering other satellites, according to a new study.
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Laser 'License Plate' Could Improve Identification of Cubesats
August 16, 2018 | ArticleA technology using a tiny laser tracker could help resolve one of the major challenges involved with the launching of cubesats: identifying individual satellites after their deployment.
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