by OGL News | Jul 26, 2024 | news-hub
(Image credit: Martin Vargic) When Space.com opened its doors to the world on July 20, 1999, humanity knew about fewer than 30 exoplanets. Today, as you read this article, that number shoots well beyond 5,000. If you’d believe it, the first worlds beyond our own...
by OGL News | Jul 25, 2024 | news-hub
Screenshot from the webcast of a SpaceX Starlink launch on July 11, 2024, showing a buildup of white material on the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket. (Image credit: SpaceX) NASA will perform its own re-authorization of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 before the rocket...
by OGL News | Jul 23, 2024 | news-hub
A SpaceX Starship approaches a notional private space station in orbit above Earth. (Image credit: Future/All About Space Magazine,Logo_ Hannah Rose Brayshaw-Williams) Humans have occupied low Earth orbit (LEO) over the past half century thanks to the Salyut, Skylab,...
by OGL News | Jul 22, 2024 | news-hub
A rendering of a discarded tin can on the moon. (Image credit: photovideostock/Getty Images) With crewed Artemis launches on the horizon, NASA is searching for sustainable solutions for waste management during long-term missions on the moon. An initiative called...
by OGL News | Jul 21, 2024 | news-hub
CAPSTONE, NASA’s cislunar pathfinder cubesat. Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter GOLDEN, Colorado – Sent moonward over two years ago, NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment — shortened to CAPSTONE — is busy as...
by OGL News | Jul 20, 2024 | news-hub
A Long March 6A lifts off from Taiyuan, july 4, 2024, carrying two Tianhui-5 (02) satellites. Credit: Ourspace HELSINKI — The upper stage of China’s Long March 6A rocket appears to be creating numerous pieces of space debris, adding to the growing issue of...
