Stephen Clark - Page 12

157 Posts
0 Comments

Test flights on tap for Space Perspective’s luxury high-altitude balloon

Enlarge / Space Perspective's first test capsule, Excelsior, has a diameter of approximately 16 feet (4.9 meters).Space Perspective Space Perspective could begin...

SpaceX wants to take over a Florida launch pad from rival ULA

Enlarge / SpaceX's fully-stacked Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster on a launch pad in South Texas.SpaceX One of the largest launch...

A sleuthing enthusiast says he found the US military’s X-37B spaceplane

Enlarge / File photo of an X-37B spaceplane.Boeing It turns out some of the informed speculation about the US military's latest X-37B...

Secret military space programs can be a little less secret, Pentagon says

Enlarge / A delegation of French military officers visited the Combined Space Operations Center in 2022 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.US Space Force/Tech....

Sierra Space is blowing up stuff to prove inflatable habitats are safe

Enlarge / Sierra Space's 300 cubic meter inflatable habitat burst at 77 psi, five times the pressure it would need to handle in space.Sierra...

NASA urged Astrobotic not to send its hamstrung spacecraft toward the Moon

Enlarge / A camera on Astrobotic's Peregrine spacecraft captured this view of a crescent Earth during its mission.Astrobotic Astrobotic knew its first...

Axiom, SpaceX launch third all-private crew mission to space station

Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin the Ax-3 commercial crew mission.Stephen Clark/Ars Technica ...

Elon Musk’s recent all-hands meeting at SpaceX was full of interesting news

Enlarge / Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO, recently held an all-hands meeting with employees at the company's Starbase facility in South Texas.SpaceX ...

The Space Force is changing the way it thinks about spaceports

Enlarge / The Morrell Operations Center at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images A lot goes...

Navajo objection to flying human ashes to the Moon won’t delay launch

Enlarge / The Moon sets over sandstone formations on the Navajo Nation.David McNew/Getty Images Science instruments aren't the only things hitching a...

Latest articles