In Second Democratic Debate, Candidates Criticize Biden's Climate Plans
Hopefuls for the Presidential nomination argued over the scope of U.S. efforts to curb global warming-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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White House proposal to tap Pell Grant fund casts a pall over NASA’s moon plans
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, at left, discusses the plan to send astronauts to the moon by 2024 as three of his associate administrators — William Gerstenmaier, Jim Reuter and Thomas Zurbuchen — look on during a town hall at NASA headquarters....
Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony
Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, D.C., this week. (Blue Origin Photo)
It’s our choice: a finite world with limited resources, or an infinite universe with unlimited potential. Those were the options presented b...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has big plans to expand New Glenn rocket factory in Florida
The Blue Origin space venture aims to add to the massive facility it’s already built near Cape Canaveral in Florida. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has filed plans for expanding its Florida ro...
FAA certificate offers new details on Stratolaunch’s plans for test flights of world’s largest aircraft
Stratolaunch’s giant airplane sits on the tarmac at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. (Stratolaunch Photo)
The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the world’s largest airplane for takeoff — but it’s not yet clear exactly when , the aero...
FCC OKs SpaceX’s plan for 7,500 satellites in very low Earth orbit (and its rivals’ plans)
An artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (OneWeb Illustration)
The Federal Communications Commission today gave the go-ahead for SpaceX to operate a constellation of more than 7,500 broadband access satellites in very low...
Iridium plans to launch CloudConnect satellite IoT system in partnership with Amazon Web Services
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is ready to launch 10 Iridium Next satellites into orbit. (Iridium Photo)
Iridium, the satellite communications network, announced Thursday that it intends to work with Amazon Web Services to connect the leading cloud-provide...
Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch unveils plans for new family of rockets (and a space plane)
Artwork shows Stratolaunch’s giant carrier plane and several classes of launch vehicles, including Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket, a medium-class rocket and its heavy-lift variant, and a fully reusable space plane. (Stratolaunch Illustration)
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Engine test anomaly deals setback to Boeing’s plans for Starliner space taxi
Aerojet Rocketdyne conducts a 2016 test firing of the launch abort engines designed for use on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi. The engines feature a new type of propellant valves. (Aerojet Rocketdyne Photo)
Boeing confirms that it experienced...