Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lifts off from West Texas on Thursday. Credit: Blue Origin The three companies that take humans to and from space, Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, have joined two experts in congressional hearings to improve regulation, warning that the United States risks losing its lead in spaceflight. The 1.5-hour hearing … Read more
Shipping company Maersk has posted record annual profits for 2022, but warned that profits will fall this year as a “more balanced demand environment” emerges. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images CNBC’s Investing in the Space newsletter offersview on space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. CNBC’s Michael Sheetz delivers and … Read more
G. Ryan Faith He is a Washington-based space policy analyst and writer who has worked for the House Science Committee, the Space Foundation, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2013 to 2016, he was the defense and security editor at VICE Media. He is currently writing a dissertation on pre-World War II … Read more
When the Sun suddenly erupts, it creates events known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and the resulting electromagnetic radiation can cause a lot of damage when it reaches Earth. In 1859, a particularly strong geomagnetic storm, the so-called Carrington event, knocked out telegraph lines and fooled many people into thinking it was 1 … Read more
Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos, recently announced the Blue Ring, a new and upcoming Swiss Army knife-style spacecraft platform, which comes after very little public discussion of the project by Blue Origin. For example, a January 2023 story when Blue Origin briefly posted a job posting for a Blue Ring Senior … Read more
This article has been reviewed in accordance with Science X’s editorial process and policies. The editors emphasized the following attributes while ensuring the credibility of the content: fact checked peer-reviewed publication reliable source correction Okay! (a) Map of the Hydraotes Chaos showing how widespread the interpreted mud volcanoes (orange dots) and diapirs (white dots) are. … Read more
WASHINGTON Industry officials used a Senate hearing to demand reforms to begin the Federal Aviation Administration’s licensing process, warning of dire commercial and geopolitical consequences if changes are not made. At an Oct. 18 hearing by the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee, witnesses argued that the strong growth the industry has seen over the past … Read more
Small-scale magnetic structures of the quiescent sun in high resolution. Credit: DKIST Astronomers are one step closer to understanding one of the most enduring solar mysteries by capturing unprecedented information from the sun’s magnetic field. Groundbreaking data collected by the US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii has provided … Read more
WASHINGTON Virgin Galactic will wrap up this year’s schedule of suborbital spaceflights in early November with a mission whose crew includes a longtime advocate of suborbital exploration. The company announced on October 18 that the next flight of its VSS Unity suborbital spacecraft, Galactic 05, is scheduled for a November 2 launch window from America’s … Read more
Oxford University researchers, in collaboration with international space agencies, have determined that S1222a, the largest Martian earthquake ever recorded, was caused by tectonic forces rather than a meteorite impact, suggesting that Mars may be more seismically active than previously thought. (Artists’ conception of the aftermath of a Martian earthquake.) a global collaboration led by University … Read more