June 2nd, 2026
Author: 
BOULDER, Colorado – Increased attention is being given to the rising intrusion of exotic materials into Earth’s atmosphere from satellite and space hardware re-entry. Exasperating the situation is the ongoing proliferation of satellite “megaconstellations” being undertaken by multiple nations. Atmospheric impacts of spacecraft launches and re-entries, what is known and unknown, along with research priorities […]
Posted in 
Voyager Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Astrobotic Technology, Inc., the Pittsburgh-based commercial lunar delivery, lunar power and reusable rockets firm. “We are building the infrastructure foundation that will make America’s permanent presence on the Moon a reality,” said Dylan Taylor, Chairman & CEO, Voyager. “With Astrobotic, Voyager is now a lunar platform that […]
SpaceX filed on May 20 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission key documentation for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. An IPO signals that a private company sells shares of its stock to the public on a stock exchange. This long-anticipated public offering could become the largest IPO in history, roughly a […]
A new episode of Mars Guy looks at the accumulation of dust donuts on the color calibration targets used by cameras on NASA’s Perseverance rover. “Martian dust is behaving as expected. It also reveals a fundamental difference between dust on Mars and Earth. Our dust doesn’t behave this way.” This video is available […]
The recent loss of Blue Origin’s New Glenn booster that blew up during an on-the-pad engine test drew NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to visit the blast zone in Florida. “We go where we need to be, and today that was NASA Kennedy,” Isaacman posted on X. He and several senior engineers spent time at Blue […]
A novel approach to scouting about over the sand dunes of Mars is the Valles Marineris Explorer – or VaMEx in probing Red Planet terms. VaMEx is a project of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The goal of the VaMEx initiative is to blueprint an autonomous, heterogeneous robot swarm for […]
FAA Completes Environmental Review for SpaceX Starfall The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued the Final Environmental Assessment for the SpaceX Starfall reentry vehicle. The review evaluated the environmental impacts of reentry, splashdown, and recovery activities. Under the proposal, SpaceX would launch two Starfall missions to Low Earth Orbit or to a sub-orbital trajectory as […]
Following a space station handover ceremony, China’s Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew returned to Earth on Friday (Beijing Time, parachuting into the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Shenzhou-21 crew spent seven months in space, setting a new record for the longest in-orbit stay by a Chinese astronaut crew. Shenzhou-21 astronauts Zhang […]
The incident took place at roughly 9 p.m. Eastern Times. The explosion happened as the New Glenn’s seven BE-4 first-stage engines ignited for an on-the-pad test. The lost launcher was slated to support an Amazon Leo mission next week. From NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman: “NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at […]
A new report has reviewed the strategic and security implications of placing mass driver technology on the moon. Mass drivers are inherently dual use, the report states, not only for helping create American economic prowess in space, but being large electrically-driven cannons, it’s infrastructure that can flex U.S. military muscle on the moon. The special […]
