Firefly Aerospace said on Tuesday in an update that its Alpha rocket carrying Lockheed Martin Corporation's satellite suffered a "mishap" during the first stage separation "[which] impacted the Stage 2 Lightning engine nozzle, putting the vehicle in a lower-than-planned orbit."Firefly revealed that it was...
Meta Platforms Inc. announced on Friday that its open source AI model, Llama, will be aboard the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory.In collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, Meta deployed a fine-tuned version of Llama 3.2 to help astronauts with low-orbit scientific...
China on Thursday successfully launched the Long March-2F rocket carrying three astronauts to its space station Tiangong. The rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and should dock at the space station around 6.5 hours after the launch, which marks the start...
SpaceX and NASA launched their 32nd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-32) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday. A Falcon 9 rocket carried an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft loaded with 3,040 kilograms of cargo from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is set to...
Elon Musk's space technology company SpaceX launched on Sunday a set of satellites for the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.The mission was carried out with the US Space Systems Command and is SpaceX's fifth launch for the...
Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Monday launched its New Shepard 31 rocket with an all-female crew into space.Crew members who were launched into space include Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, pop star Katy Perry, TV host Gayle King, a former NASA rocket scientist, Aisha Bowe, a civil rights...
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced on Friday it will partner with US-based Sierra Space and Tec-Masters to test a key component of its water electrolysis system aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The goal is to develop a regenerative fuel cell system that can sustain human life during...
The odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with the Moon in December 2032 have risen to about 4%, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, citing data obtained from the James Webb Space Telescope.It marks a sharp increase in the likelihood of the asteroid hitting our planet's satellite. The asteroid,...
Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday it would launch its first satellites into low Earth orbit on April 9, kickstarting the company's project of providing satellite internet connection to users "around the world."The launching of the first 27 satellites, a part of Amazon's Project Kuiper, will be carried out by...
The shares of Intuitive Machines Inc. dropped 20% on Thursday after the firm failed to confirm whether its second-ever Moon landing was successful.While Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander, called Athena, was confirmed to be on the surface, its orientation remained uncertain....
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