Space
Coverage of advances in space exploration that have implications for state and local government. Includes stories about satellites, which are increasingly used to expand the availability of Internet access, as well as to capture images and gather data using sensors to monitor things like environmental conditions and infrastructure needs.
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The federal government’s large annual defense act steps into staffing issues within the Space Force, requiring roughly equal staffing between operational and acquisition positions. -
In collaboration with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, Sonoma State University students built and launched a satellite to monitor how solar wind interacts with the upper atmosphere.
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The city, home to the Texas Cyber Command at the University of Texas, will host the first-ever Texas Space Summit in September 2026. The general topic? The booming commercial space business.
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Four months after SpaceX's first orbital flight test of Starship Super Heavy ended in a high-altitude explosion over the Gulf of Mexico, the company has submitted a mishap report to the FAA on what went wrong.
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Since late last year when Starlink Internet became available in Alaska, thousands of residents have signed up at a pace that's exceeding expectations, observers say, even though the signal is not perfect.
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Scientists with the NOAA and NASA showed off a NASA DC-8 airplane parked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that is said to be the world's largest flying chemistry laboratory.
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NASA's quest to send astronauts to the moon in a spacecraft that later returns to Earth and parachutes into the ocean has gotten a big lift from the Navy, which safely recovered a capsule last week.
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The FAA, which is overseeing an investigation into the April 20 launch, said it was still awaiting the report it needs to identify corrective actions SpaceX must take to get the OK to launch again from Boca Chica.
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The NASA Flight Dynamics Research Facility, a project some officials have been pursuing for 25 years, will replace two smaller wind tunnels that are around 80 years old.
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According to a report by the Puget Sound Regional Council, the growing sector in that state already generates approximately $4.6 billion a year and employs more than 13,000 people.
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SpaceX and the FAA are asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit by environmental and Indigenous groups seeking a new assessment of the environmental impacts of rocket launches from South Texas.
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Albedo co-founder and CEO Topher Haddad said the Colorado-based company’s tech offers higher-resolution images than what’s currently available by combining visible and thermal infrared imagery.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. Congress members from Ohio are working to pitch the federal government on the Buckeye State being the future home of U.S. Space Command.
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NASA talked publicly Wednesday about the work of its independent study team formed last year to take a new look at “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomenon.”
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Axiom Space made history in 2022 with the first all-private mission to the International Space Station, and the company is ready to do it again, with more focus on having its own commercial space station.
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Concern over problems such as collisions and light pollution have been increasing among government agencies, astronomers and others as the number of launched and proposed low-Earth orbit satellites surges.
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A group of environmental organizations have filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly "failing to fully analyze and mitigate the environmental harms” from a SpaceX launch program.
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Corey Jaskolski is the founder and CEO of Synthetaic, and he has dubbed his ChatGPT-esque satellite image scanning tool Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC.
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SpaceX got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration and will try its luck sending what would be the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from Earth on a suborbital test flight today.
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With a new public awareness campaign there and a new group of supportive backers, an organization based in Maine is trying to turn that state into the next hub for the so-called New Space industry.
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Plus the sharp rise in IoT cyber attacks in 2022, a new milestone for driverless car company Cruise and the going rate for a first-generation iPhone new in the package.
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