The universe just got a bit richer with the discovery of an apparent diamond planet orbiting a nearby star. A Diamond planet thought to be made largely of diamond may be less than glittering inside, new...
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The “Saturday Night Live” star and five other people are scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle on March 23, company representatives announced today (March...
Radian Aerospace raises $27.5 million for orbital space plane | Radian Aerospace orbital space plane
Radian Aerospace, based in the Seattle suburb of Renton, Washington, announced Jan. 19 it had closed a $27.5 million seed round led by venture capital fund Fine Structure Ventures. Other investors include from EXOR, The Venture...
China has test-fired their new massive Solid fuel rocket engine that creates more propulsion options for the country’s growing space ventures. It was ignited on October 19 at a site near Xi’an City northern China for...
1) Hubble Hubble’s space mission launch in 1990 was motivated by the idea that the best view of space is from space itself. Astronomers attempting to get a good view of very distant objects in the universe. Related...
Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company, SpaceX stocks has reportedly raised another $850 million, sending its valuation soaring to about $74 billion. SpaceX stocks raised at a price of $419.99 per share, CNBC...
The DART mission, a Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), will be the first agency’s use of the kinetic impactor technique, in which a large, high-speed spacecraft is sent into an asteroid’s path to change its...
The space tourism company Virgin Galactic successfully launched its founder Richard Branson and five other crewmembers into suborbital space on July 11, 2021 in a milestone mission that marked the first fully...