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 U.S.-India satellite will scan nearly all of Earth's land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days, providing high-resolution data for scientists to monitor the planet's land and ice surfaces. -
When President Trump laid out his plans to reduce workforce and waste, Florida politicians began floating the idea to relocate NASA’s headquarters from Washington to Florida. That idea isn’t dead.
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New environmental impact statements that were released last week detail plans by SpaceX to fly as many as 76 times a year from Cape Canaveral Space Station.
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A coalition of environmental and Native American groups won an appeal in a 2021 lawsuit against state and county officials over SpaceX's recurring closures of Boca Chica beach for Starship testing and launches.
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A state-led swap that would give SpaceX state park land near its Boca Chica Starship facilities — a plan that sparked widespread opposition — was pulled from a meeting scheduled for Thursday.
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A SpaceX vehicle recently carved its way through the cloudy skies on Florida’s Space Coast, sending up a four-person crew on a private mission to the International Space Station.
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Astrobotic Technology’s Peregrine lunar lander has continued to remain alive in its new role as a spacecraft despite continued warnings that the vehicle would lose power.
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Commercial astronaut trips from Florida’s Space Coast are becoming more commonplace, with Axiom Space about to send up another crew from Kennedy Space Center this week.
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NASA officials cited safety as a top priority and highlighted several concerns that need to be addressed before a launch — including challenges with the heat shield, the life support system and the abort system.
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The remains or DNA of “Star Trek” stars, presidents, scientists and many others will be among the payload aboard the rocket that will also carry the first NASA lunar lander launched from the U.S. since 1972.
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Built through a joint venture of Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., the new vehicle is poised to take on SpaceX and ferry satellites and cargo for the likes of the Pentagon, NASA and even Amazon.com Inc.
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The final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its giant orange external tank will begin this month — the capstone to a historic journey to an ambitious museum exhibit in Los Angeles.
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As the top Republican appropriator for NASA in the Senate, Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas is set to play a key role in the emerging space race between the United States and China.
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The business of sending humans into space has not yet risen to the levels seen during the famed space shuttle program, but 2024 could see the most U.S.-based orbital launches in 15 years.
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Two South Texas congressmen are calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to expedite its review of SpaceX's Starship project near Boca Chica Beach outside Brownsville.
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Tech entrepreneur Franklin Antonio, the co-founder of California chip maker Qualcomm, left a substantial and generous donation to the alien research community when he passed away last year.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it is launching more than just rockets these days, with a new streaming service, NASA+, set to take off this week.
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The Space Force awarded a $25.5 million contract last month to Astroscale U.S. Inc. to develop and deliver an in-orbit refueler by 2026, the service announced in a September news release.
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A Japanese startup aims to take passengers 15.5 miles above sea level in an airtight capsule fixed to a helium balloon that offers a space tourism-like experience without the same price tag of firms like Virgin Galactic.
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UC Berkeley aims to capture interest with plans for a $2 billion, 36-acre space center at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, which will feature needed classrooms, laboratories and housing.
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NASA is banking on SpaceX’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, aiming to send a probe named Psyche to a mysterious asteroid that has the same name this week.
