Alan Boyle
Contributing Editor at GeekWire
Mastermind of @CosmicLog. Contributing editor at @GeekWire. Host of @Fi_Sci_Club podcast. Main account on Bluesky: https://t.co/2gZcT8Fofl
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2 days ago |
universetoday.com | Alan Boyle
The $10,000 Schweickart Prize is awarded every June to mark Asteroid Day and draw attention to risks from above — and this year's prize is going to a team of students who are proposing a panel to focus on what could happen when we start tinkering with asteroids. The winning proposal calls for the creation of a Panel on Asteroid Orbit Alteration, which would address the emerging risks posed by unintended asteroid orbit changes.
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4 days ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
Starfish Space’s second Otter Pup spacecraft went into Earth orbit today, marking the first step in what the Seattle-area startup hopes will be a successful demonstration of the vehicle’s ability to dock with other satellites. Otter Pup, which is about the size of a microwave oven, was one of 70 payloads that hitched a ride to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-14 smallsat rideshare mission.
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4 days ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
Kent, Wash.-based New Frontier Aerospace says it has put its 3D-printed Mjölnir rocket engine through a series of successful hot-fire tests, in preparation for an initial flight test of a hypersonic drone that could take place as early as next year. Mjölnir is named after the hammer that was wielded by Thor in Norse mythology (and in Marvel movies). The first job for this hammer would be to propel an uncrewed aerial system called Pathfinder for a series of hovering tests, currently set for 2026.
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4 days ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
After more than 20 years of planning and construction, astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory today — and also registered hundreds of the first discoveries from the world’s newest eye on the sky.
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5 days ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
A second batch of satellites has been sent into low Earth orbit for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband network, marking another significant step toward competing with SpaceX’s global Starlink network. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched 27 Project Kuiper satellites today at 6:54 a.m. ET (3:54 a.m. PT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. If all goes well, they’ll join 27 other satellites that were launched on an Atlas V in April.
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RT @NASA: Everybody, wave! @Firefly_Space’s Blue Ghost lunar lander caught Earth on video as the lander continued its journey to the Moon.…
.@amazon ships @ProjectKuiper satellites to Florida in preparation for milestone launch https://t.co/UXOuvV6haZ
