19 posts tagged ‘Space’
Linda Salzman Sagan, co-creator of the Voyager Golden Record and Pioneer Plaque, RIP
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Linda Salzman Sagan who co-created two iconic messages to extraterrestrials—the Voyager Golden Record and the Pioneer Plaque—has died. She was 83-years-old. The Pioneer Plaque was a collaboration between Linda, her husband astronomer and educator Carl Sagan, and astronomer Frank Drake, the "father of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence." — Read the rest
SpaceX launches Starship for the second time, going farther than ever before
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Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2023 SpaceX flew Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, for the second time today – and even though both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage had to be blown up in mid-air, it was still a huge […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How to watch SpaceX launch Starship for a second time live
In less than 24 hours, SpaceX will attempt to launch Starship to space for the second time. The official launch window opens at 7:00 AM CST on Saturday and lasts for just 20 minutes — and no, that’s not a typo. SpaceX will start its live webcast tomorrow around 35 minutes prior to liftoff and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Musk: SpaceX now aiming for Saturday for Starship’s second flight test
SpaceX has officially pushed back the second orbital flight test of Starship by one day to Saturday, CEO Elon Musk confirmed on X. Rumors about the push-back started to swirl after onsite news organizations, like NASASpaceflight, observed a massive crawler crane headed to the launch site. That machine is used to stack (and destack) Starship, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Despite setbacks, ispace to launch second moon mission in Q4 2024
Japanese lunar technology company ispace will make its second attempt at putting a lander on the moon in the fourth quarter of 2024, just about two years after it launched its first failed mission, executives said Thursday. ispace launched its first lunar lander mission in on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in December 2022. The lander, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Blackshark.ai’s Orca Huntr lets you build orbital intelligence models with a scribble
Blackshark.ai has already made a digital twin of the Earth, and its next play further democratizes the hitherto lofty (if you will) world of geospatial intelligence. Continuing the nautical theme, its Orca Huntr tool is an AI-powered tool for finding and tracking anything from orbit — and it’s so simple that a child, or even […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
SPAC delays $350M merger with stratospheric balloon startup World View – again
The special-purpose acquisition company poised to take stratospheric balloon startup World View public is now under official deadline as shareholders voted to again push back the deadline by which it must complete the deal. World View, which was founded a decade ago, was originally focused on using a fleet of stratospheric balloons to provide space […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Morpheus Space developed a space mission design platform so intuitive even I could use it
In-space propulsion developer Morpheus Space unveiled its first software product today, a mission simulation and design platform called Journey. The product has been under development for almost two years, Morpheus’ product manager Jim Gianakopoulos said in a recent interview (and a recent product walk-through). It was borne out of the typical thruster sales process: customers […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.