Tag: Space

China, Russia Could Launch ‘Space Pearl Harbor’ on Aging US Satellites: Expert

The United States is not prepared for strategic space competition against a united China and Russia, according to one expert. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is nearing technological parity with the United States in key space domains, according to Brandon Weichert, an independent geopolitical analyst. That means that it will soon threaten the United States’…


Amazon’s Answer to Elon Musk’s Starlink Gets New Space Ride for 2023 Launch

Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that satellites for its Project Kuiper internet program will be launched by the new Vulcan rocket in early 2023. The Jeff Bezos-founded company said in a statement that its first two satellites—Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2—will be launched on the maiden flight of the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket early…


World’s 1st Space Tourist Signs up for Flight Around Moon

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The world’s first space tourist wants to go back—only this time, he’s signed up for a spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship. For Dennis Tito, 82, it’s a chance to relive the joy of his trip to the International Space Station, now that he’s retired with time on his hands. He…


White House Releases New National Security Plan

China is the greatest challenge to the United States: The Biden administration is labeling the communist country in its National Security Strategy. Chinese companies are delisting from American stock markets, with their value taking a plunge. One Western audit company is facing a massive fine for fraud. New evidence is hinting at a Chinese cover-up…


NASA Says DART Mission Succeeded in Altering Asteroid’s Trajectory

The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit—the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, NASA’s chief announced on Tuesday. “This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity,” NASA chief Bill…


LIVE 2 PM ET: NASA Holds Virtual Media Briefing on Recent Asteroid Defense Mission

NASA hosts a media briefing to discuss the results of the recent test of its DART planetary defense system and whether the exercise of crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid last month succeeded in altering its course enough that it could prevent a potential doomsday collision with Earth. * Click the “Save” button below the…


LIVE NOW: NASA Holds Virtual Media Briefing on Recent Asteroid Defense Mission

NASA hosts a media briefing to discuss the results of the recent test of its DART planetary defense system and whether the exercise of crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid last month succeeded in altering its course enough that it could prevent a potential doomsday collision with Earth. * Click the “Save” button below the…


NASA Holds Virtual Media Briefing on Recent Asteroid Defense Mission

NASA hosts a media briefing to discuss the results of the recent test of its DART planetary defense system and whether the exercise of crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid last month succeeded in altering its course enough that it could prevent a potential doomsday collision with Earth. * Click the “Save” button below the…


‘X-ray Specs’: Canadian Scientists Starry-eyed Over James Webb Space Telescope

It’s as if they were using a telescope not just to peer into space, but also into time. Canadian scientists are already using spectacular data and images from the recently launched James Webb Space telescope to look backward into some of the oldest stars ever studied and forward into how new stars and planets are…


A ‘Cataclysmic’ Celestial Couple Gone Wrong: A Star Eats Its Mate

WASHINGTON—Unlike the lonely sun, about half the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are in a long-term committed relationship with another star, orbiting each another in a celestial marriage called a binary system. Researchers this week described one of these marriages gone wrong—a twosome that borders on the extreme, with the pair whirling around each…