This Falcon 9 was in orbit since January last year, when it blasted off from Florida. The same booster section from the January 2025 mission is due to set off on its 18th flight on 10 August. SpaceX says the mission hopes to launch 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. The rocket that blasted from…
WASHINGTON — The Space Force has awarded California-based startup K2 Space $22.9 million to host tests of new, standardized laser-link terminals being developed under its Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program. The contract, announced July 31, runs through 2028 and covers procurement of the terminals, integration with two of K2’s large satellite buses, and launch. It…
WASHINGTON — The Space Force has tapped 15 vendors to compete for a $981 million contract pool aimed at getting training capabilities to Guardians over the next five years, as senior officials fret gaps caused by a lack of instructors, facilities and simulators needed for key mission areas. The effort has a heck of a…
President Donald Trump has paused attacks on Iran for the third night in a row to give diplomacy more time, the US ambassador to the UN said. Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, ambassador Mike Waltz said the president was “giving talks some space, he’s giving it a little bit of room”. An Iranian army…
Plans to build a massive 20m-high space radar station in Pembrokeshire will be decided by Welsh government ministers. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) wants to build 27 radar dishes at Cawdor Barracks in Brawdy. The dishes, standing at 66ft (20m) high and 49ft (15m) wide, would form part of a trilateral AUKUS security partnership with…
The rocket – named after Vikram Sarabhai, who is called the father of India’s space programme – is small and has the capacity to carry payloads of up to 350kg, Skyroot co-founder and CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana told the BBC before the launch. Chandana says today, access to space remains “a major bottleneck, with satellite…
I would like to know why we build solar farms over green space, when we could just put them over massive car parks as a popular current internet meme suggests. Chris, Middlesbrough Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply Sure … and how about mandating that data centres put them on their roofs? Come to…
Forrest Beach Takeaway owner Lisa Scobie said the local community was curious to know their origin. “It’s very quiet, not a lot happens here. So having a lot of extra activity… that definitely created a little bit of excitement,” she told public broadcaster ABC. According to the ASA’s latest statement, “the objects’ location and characteristics…
The LINK spacecraft, which Lee’s team came up with, is a three-armed robot, about the size of a fridge, bristling with cameras and guidance systems and driven by small thrusters. Launched on Friday, the spacecraft will spend the next few weeks waking up its systems one-by-one: power, navigation, the cameras and sensors it will rely…
The new London Museum will be “a social space for the city”, its director has said, hosting afternoon tea events, monthly dinner clubs and late-night DJ sets where visitors can mingle among the artefacts while dancing. Sharon Ament said that when it reopened later this year the museum would be a “democratic” space that engaged…
