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SpaceX Launches 3 Giant BlueBird Satellites to Kill Cellular Dead Zones
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 3:42 a.m. ET on August 5 carrying three of the largest commercial satellites ever deployed in low Earth orbit — and the physics behind how they beam LTE to ordinary smartphones explains why direct-to-cell could finally eliminate coverage dead zones.
NASA Avionics License Gives Rocket One an AI-Powered Spacecraft Shortcut
Rocket One has secured a NASA patent license for its Affordable Vehicle Avionics system, using the proven flight-computing architecture as the foundation for an AI-enabled spacecraft engineering and mission-planning platform that could dramatically reduce development costs for commercial operators.
SpaceX Starship Is Too Big for Wind Tunnels — NASA Solved It at 1.2% Scale
Because Starship's diameter exceeds the usable width of most high-speed wind tunnels, NASA and SpaceX engineers tested a precision-fabricated 1.2% scale model at NASA Ames, generating transonic aerodynamic data essential for safe re-entry and flight control.
NASA EVA Suit Keeps Astronauts Alive for Exactly 8 Hours — Here’s How
NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit supplies pressurized oxygen, thermal control, and radiation shielding for up to eight hours — a hard limit, not a guideline — as NASA prepares three ISS spacewalks in August 2026 with a public briefing on July 30.
Falcon 9 Reaches Orbit in 9 Minutes: How 24 Starlink Satellites Are Deployed
Every Starlink launch from Vandenberg's SLC-4E follows the same compressed arc: nine minutes from ignition to 24 satellites circling Earth at 17,500 mph. The Starlink 17-52 mission — SpaceX's 90th in this operational context — reveals why polar orbits demand California's coast and what happens physically during that ascent.
Eight Months in Space Ages Astronaut Bones a Decade — Half Never Fully Recover
A NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts returned to Earth after 241 days on the ISS, capping a mission that reveals how long-duration spaceflight compresses roughly a decade of skeletal aging into six months — with bone loss that, in half of studied astronauts, had not fully reversed even a year after landing.Load More
