With Crew-13, Jessica Watkins became the first Black woman to lead a mission into space. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Grace” spacecraft […]
Category: Space
As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry
“From a technical perspective and an infrastructure perspective, essentially 90 percent of everything you do on that light lift piece […]
NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
“We did some really, really cool stuff. I’m absolutely gutted we weren’t able to get further.” Katalyst engineers attach Link […]
So what’s happening with Russia’s new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?
Bakanov, in comments translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell, told the publication that tests of the spacecraft’s parachute system will […]
NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what? A close-up view of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket vertical with the […]
Boeing “incredibly excited” to serve as nation’s only astronaut transportation
Facing a difficult decision With the retirement of Dragon likely by or before 2030, NASA faced a difficult decision. As […]
SpaceX’s Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks
Starship had already flown 99 percent of the way to low-Earth orbit. Monday’s flight added the last bit. SpaceX’s 14th […]
NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station’s large robotic arm
The arm has a mass of nearly two metric tons and can handle payloads of up to 116 tons. For […]
After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild
“All of these will be inspections to start,” Bennett said of the SSPICY mission. “But then there will be an […]
With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
NASA’s PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost. Artist’s illustration of […]