Archive for the 'Space' Category
Newly Identified Cosmic Object Sends Out Blast of Radio Waves and X-Rays Every 44 Minutes
May 30th, 2025Via: Study Finds: Something deep in the Milky Way is pulsing like clockwork, and no one knows what it is. Every 44 minutes, a mysterious space object nearly 15,000 light-years away sends out a blast of radio waves and high-energy X-rays, defying everything astronomers thought they knew about how stars behave. It’s not a pulsar, […]
Trump Announces Golden Dome Missile Shield
May 21st, 2025[???] Via: The War Zone: The Golden Dome missile defense system will cost about $175 billion and be operational “in less than three years” with “a success rate close to 100%,” President Donald Trump declared Tuesday afternoon as he shared new details about his ambitious, very expensive, and controversial missile defense shield for the U.S. […]
Brief Glimpse at Amazon’s Kuiper Broadband Satellites
May 5th, 2025Perplexity thinks Amazon’s launch cost is something like 3X higher than Starlink’s. It’s going to be interesting to see how Bezos will try to compete with Starlink, which is already fully operational with millions of customers. Via: Ars Technica: Amazon requested ULA end the official live broadcast of the launch around five minutes into the […]
Amazon’s Project Kuiper Launches First Full Batch of Low-Earth Orbit Satellites
April 29th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware: This deployment will just be the first of many, especially as the company has previously sought permission to launch 3,236 satellites to deliver internet services around the globe. It took six years for Amazon to go from applying for permits from the FCC to launching its satellites, and it will probably take […]
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
March 2nd, 2025Via: Space.com: Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander just etched its name into the history books. Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface for NASA, which was understandably happy […]
U.S. Space Force Releases Image from X-37B Spaceplane
February 22nd, 2025First image from X-37B Spaceplanehttps://t.co/I5f3KzevxF pic.twitter.com/yDYkbDZ091 — cryptogon (@cryptogon) February 22, 2025 Via: The War Zone: For the first time, the U.S. Space Force has released a photo of Earth taken by one of its secretive X-37B mini-shuttles. The image appears to be the first in-orbit shot from the craft of any kind to be […]
Research Underway to Enable Satellites to Permanently Orbit in Very Low Earth Orbit
February 9th, 2025Is this actually going to happen? I don’t know why, but Cryptogon is read by many people who are qualified to provide a sanity check on this. I hope they comment. Needless to say, it would be very bad if remote operated/autonomous weapon systems were able to use realtime, high definition imagery, available planet-wide, for […]
Astronomers Discover Complex Carbon Molecules in Interstellar Space
October 26th, 2024Via: Science Alert: A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us who keep lists of known interstellar molecules in the hope that we might work out how life arose in […]
Communications Satellite Intelsat 33e Breaks Up In Geostationary Orbit
October 22nd, 2024Via: SpaceNews: The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit (GEO) and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia Pacific. … In an Oct. 21 update, Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss. The company said it is working with government agencies to analyze data and […]
“Mechazilla Has Caught the Booster”: SpaceX Recovered Super Heavy Rocket Booster with Grabbing Arm on Launch Pad
October 13th, 2024“This is absolutely insane. On the first ever attempt, we have successfully caught the Super Heavy booster back at the launch tower.” Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024
