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SpaceX built the most powerful rocket in history without landing legs on its upper stage, designing it instead to be caught after re-entry by a pair of giant arms on the launch tower — and Elon Musk now says the first attempt could come within months.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (440+ words) SpaceX has already caught a Super Heavy booster. Catching the re-entering Starship upper stage would test whether its legless design can become a practical reuse system....
An AI model trained on tens of thousands of simulated planetary systems achieved up to 99%
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1314+ words) A random-forest classifier distilled simulated planetary architectures into a 44-system observing shortlist, but its 99% precision was measured only inside the synthetic universe used to train it....
A drone caught Maserati the dolphin lifting a football-sized shell to trap a fish, then her calf picking it up and trying the same
3+ week, 2+ day ago (347+ words) A drone was hovering over calm water off Hervey Bay, on Australia's east coast. An adult dolphin rises with a large empty shell balanced on her snout, a fish...
Starship's 33 engines push down with 74,400 kilonewtons at liftoff — roughly twice the force of the Saturn V that sent humans to the Moon, yet the whole vehicle is designed to be caught like a falling pencil and flown again the next day
4+ week, 22+ hour ago (1038+ words) SpaceX's bet is that catching and reusing a 5,000-tonne rocket is cheaper than building a new one, and the engineering challenges of making that work may matter far more than raw horsepower. Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit At the moment…...
The United States recorded 178 rocket launches in 2025. Trump’s new national space policy directs American ranges to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030—an average of nearly three spaceflight operations every day.
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (1090+ words) The White House wants American ranges capable of supporting more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030. The target is broader than the 178-launch baseline and will test ranges, airspace and regulation. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Lachlan Brown…...
NASA is set to launch a telescope on August 30 that could detect around 100,000 new worlds — more than all previous planet-hunting observatories have found combined — using a camera that captures 100 times more sky than Hubble in a single shot.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1233+ words) Roman's 288-megapixel camera will repeatedly watch 100 million bulge stars, with simulations forecasting around 100,000 transiting planets plus a distinct microlensing census. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 22, 2026 · How we edit That wide view is why NASA says Roman…...
On 28 October 1971, a British Black Arrow rocket put Prospero into orbit from the Australian desert — Parliament had been told on 29 July that the programme would end after this flight, leaving the next rocket to become an unflown museum exhibit.
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (611+ words) Black Arrow launched Prospero after Parliament had been told the programme would end. The unflown R4 rocket preserved the next step that never happened....
In 1965, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory launched LES-1, which stopped transmitting two years later — but in 2012 amateurs heard it again at 237 MHz, and its builders now record the old satellite as it passes overhead in sunlight, using a rooftop antenna.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (968+ words) After decades of silence, LES-1 was heard again in 2012. Lincoln Laboratory now records its sunlight-powered radio tone from a rooftop antenna. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit LES-1 stopped transmitting after two years of…...
In 1962, Canada’s first satellite went into orbit with a planned life of 1 year — Alouette sent useful data for more than 10 years, carrying long antennas that had been packed for launch by rolling the metal strips up like a carpenter’s measuring tape.
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (529+ words) Alouette I exceeded its one-year design life and used antennas that unrolled from compact coils into long tubular structures. Its radio observations left an enduring archive....
Sophie Adenot became the first French woman to spacewalk on 18 August 2026, but the job she went outside to finish remains unfinished — stubborn electrical cables ate the time she needed to install a new antenna
3+ week, 4+ day ago (381+ words) A historic milestone collided with the mundane reality of spacewalking: six hours is never quite enough when old wiring fights back....