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Thanks to Albert Einstein, the US Government wants to establish an official time zone for the Moon. It has less to do with jet lag and more to do with how gravity affects time and can throw a lot of very precise technologies seriously off track.Continu… Continue reading Theory of Relativity drives plan for Moon standard time
2023 turned out to be a busy year in space and the general vicinity. New Atlas looks back at everything from rocket launches and cosmic tsunamis to asteroid samples and the latest astronaut fashions.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: best-of… Continue reading The Year in Space 2023
When someone says they’re planning on using a balloon to take tourists to the edge of outer space, you may wonder if they’ll ever get past the conceptual stage. Space Perspective has gotten past it, though, by building a physical test model of its Nept… Continue reading Space Perspective shows off test version of tourist-carrying space capsule
After many years of delays, Virgin Galactic has carried its first tourist passengers to the edge of space, including British former Olympiad Jon Goodwin, and Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers, a mother and daughter from Antigua and Barbuda.Continue … Continue reading Virgin Galactic takes its first tourists to the edge of space
After years of setbacks, Virgin Galactic has completed its first commercial flight that saw it carry 13 research payloads and three passengers from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy to the edge of space.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Virgin Galactic blasts into commercial service with Galactic 01 flight
After Virgin Orbit vanished in bankruptcy court, Virgin Galactic announced its first spaceflight in two years as the Unity 25 mission rocketed to an altitude of 54.2 miles (87.2 km) on May 25, 2023 in the skies over Spaceport America, New Mexico.Contin… Continue reading Virgin Galactic blasts into space after two-year hiatus
Space startup Vast has announced that it intends to launch what it calls the world’s first commercial space station, Haven-1, sometime after August 2025 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as the first element of a 100-m (330 ft) rotating station.Continue Re… Continue reading Startup Vast plans first commercial space station for launch in 2025
After Richard Branson delivered some inspiring words from his seat aboard SpaceShipTwo Unity, he unbuckled himself and started to float around the vehicle’s cabin along with three other Virgin Galactic …read more Continue reading Virgin Galactic Cautiously Returns To Flight
Blue Origin and Sierra Space have revealed plans to place a commercially developed, owned, launched, and operated open-system architecture space station called Orbital Reef into low-Earth orbit between 2025 and 2030.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Sci… Continue reading Blue Origin and Sierra Space to build commercial “business park in space”
Lockheed Martin, Nanoracks, and Voyager Space have entered into a partnership to launch a permanently crewed commercial space station by 2027. Called Starlab, the semi-inflatable platform will be available to the US government and private industry.Cont… Continue reading Lockheed Martin plans to build Starlab commercial space station by 2027