The FCC’s Rules on Space Junk Just Got Stricter
A new and contentious five-year limit for getting rid of dead satellites could slow the growing orbital litter problem—if people actually abide by it. ..
A new and contentious five-year limit for getting rid of dead satellites could slow the growing orbital litter problem—if people actually abide by it. ..
Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes can’t. ..
The mission was designed to test whether a probe could knock a hazardous space rock away from a crash course with Earth. ..
Bad weather forced a third delay for the space agency’s SLS rocket plans—another setback for the uncrewed back-to-the-moon mission. ..
These are tantalizing hints that microbes might have lived on Mars billions of years ago, but scientists need to study the rocks back on Earth to be sure. ..
The two probes made flybys of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s. Today they’re still doing science way out beyond our solar system. ..
The uncrewed mission, the first major launch of the Artemis program, suffered a setback after a liquid hydrogen leak. ..
An engine problem caused the agency to postpone the launch that will kick off the Artemis program, the first major lunar mission since the Apollo era. ..
Ten tiny satellites will be hitching a ride en route to the moon, each with scientific objectives of their own. ..
The space agency’s upcoming lunar mission will launch the ambitious Artemis program, building on the landings 50 years ago. ..