Aerospace & Spaceflight SpaceX Hits 150 Falcon 9 Launches in 2025 with Starlink Boost David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 A Falcon 9 rocket roared off Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:53 a.m. EST…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Weather Setback Reveals Stakes for New Glenn’s First Mars Mission David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 What does it mean when a long‑awaited Mars mission meets its first obstacle not in deep space but in the…
Aerospace & Spaceflight New Glenn’s Landing Reshapes Artemis Strategy and SpaceX–Blue Origin Rivalry David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 What happens when a long‑awaited booster finally nails its landing? In this case, an entire competitive landscape shifts in real…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Surprising Metal Meteorite Revealed by Perseverance on Mars David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 Could one metallic boulder perched on windswept Martian ground reshape expectations about what the planet should be hiding? That’s the…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Surprising Stealth Solar Eruption Revealed After Sudden Auroras David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 One line resonated through the space‑weather community this week: “Stealthy #solarstorms are back” wrote physicist Tamitha Skov, capturing the uneasy…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Surprising Magnetic Switchback Near Earth Revealed by NASA David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 “This magnetic switchback was formed via interchange reconnection at the interface between open magnetosheath and closed magnetospheric field lines,” McDougall…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Webb’s High‑Definition View Deepens the Surprising Expansion‑Rate Puzzle David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 A fresh claim is making rounds through cosmology, that the universe is telling the same story twice, and it still…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Quantum Breakthrough Reveals Ultra‑Stable Clocks for Deep‑Space Navigation David WhitakerJune 18, 2026June 18, 20260 How does a clock become precise enough to guide a spacecraft across interstellar distance without drifting a single second over…