WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) is moving forward with plans to develop new financing tools, including a loan program aimed at supporting critical technologies in the United States. These include technologies supporting space launch, satellite manufacturing and space-based services. The OSC issued requests for...

Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital seeks input on new loan program for critical technologies

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Large amounts of space debris and satellite megaconstellations in low Earth orbit are creating "an unsustainable environment in the long-term," according to a new report from the European Space Agency.

Space is becoming an 'unsustainable environment in the long term,' ESA says

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Akima’s subsidiary Five Rivers Analytics a $480 million 10-year contract to support and modernize the Satellite Control Network — a decades-old system of 19 globally distributed parabolic antennas spread across several locations worldwide. Akima, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned defense contractor,...

Akima lands $480 million Space Force contract to modernize Satellite Control Network

WASHINGTON — U.S. defense contractor Raytheon on July 23 announced a strategic partnership with Italian aerospace firm Avio to develop solid rocket motors for military applications and help address shortages in the U.S. defense industrial base. The companies said the agreement aims to enhance the resilience and responsiveness of...

Raytheon partners with Italy’s Avio to boost solid rocket motor production

WASHINGTON — The SmallSat Alliance on July 23 announced the appointment of retired U.S. Marine Angel Smith as its new executive director. Smith, a former combat pilot and staffer for the House Intelligence Committee, most recently served as an executive at Microsoft Corp. The SmallSat Alliance — a coalition...

SmallSat Alliance names new executive director

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NASA has reportedly decided that the International Space Station has just about come to the end of its usefulness and will be paying Elon Musk’s SpaceX company to destroy it. SpaceX will received up to $843 million from NASA to pull the International Space Station back to Earth by 2030, destroying it as it passes […]
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NASA To Pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX Up To $843 Million To Destroy The International Space Station

An international team of astronomers employing NASA’s Webb Space Telescope captured an exoplanet 12 light years away, and in a location that may be familiar to fans of science fiction. The alien planet orbits the K-type star Epsilon Indi A, which is around the same age as Earth’s Sun, but is slightly cooler.

NASA's Image Of An Alien Planet 12 Light Years Away Gives Astronomers Chills

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Scientists have discovered that the moon contains a vast underground cave on the side of a deep pit in the lunar surface.

Scientists found an underground cave on the moon where astronauts could live and think there may be hundreds more

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Someone alert Elon Musk.

NASA’s Curiosity rover made a “mind-blowing” discovery on Mars — yellowish-green crystals of pure sulfur, never before seen on Earth’s mysterious red neighbor, according to scientists.

The literal ground-breaking find was made after the one-ton Curiosity drove over a pile of rocks and cracked one open while probing the deep and winding Gediz Vallis channel, believed to have been formed by water 3 billion years ago.

“I think it’s the strangest find of the whole mission and the most unexpected,” Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] in Pasadena, California, told CNN. “I have to...

NASA’s Curiosity rover makes ‘mind-blowing’ discovery on Mars

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With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

NASA’s Curiosity rover recently made an astonishing discovery on Mars by accidentally crushing a boulder, revealing yellow sulfur crystals. This find is groundbreaking as it marks the first time rocks composed of pure sulfur have been observed on the Red Planet. The conditions required for sulfur crystal formation are typically limited and were not considered present in the region Curiosity explored. Since October 2023, Curiosity has been navigating an area abundant in sulfates, which are sulfur-containing salts formed through water evaporation. While previous detections involved sulfur mixed with other materials, this discovery of elemental sulfur challenges scientists’ understanding of Mars’s geological history. The unexpected nature of this find has sparked excitement among scientists, highlighting the unpredictable and thrilling aspects of planetary exploration.

NASA Stunned by Discovery After Mars Rover Breaks Open a Rock

Exodus Propulsion Technologies co-founder and NASA electrostatics expert Charles Buhler claims to have helped invent a device that breaks the known laws of gravity. The “propellantless propulsion” device uses electromagnetism to propel an object without fuel, meaning that if a strong enough version is developed, we won’t need rockets to get to space. Buhler joins Glenn to explain how this technology works – or at least as much as he can, because there’s still a lot that’s unknown about how this tech even exists. Plus, he details just how revolutionary it would be for ALL transportation, including why he believes it could get us to the moon in under 3 hours and to Mars in 5-6 days!

Scientists Create 'Anti-Gravity' Device That Could Revolutionize Transporta

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The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

Trapped in a small but high-tech habitat, stranded on a cold desert world completely alien to our own, what would you do to decompress after a laborious day of scientific fact-finding and on-foot exploration?. Thanks to NASA's simulated Mars habitat experiment — the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA)...

Crew Who Spent a Year in Simulated NASA Mars Base Say They Spent a Lot of Time Watching TV

In Virginia, Drinking in public or offering another person alcohol in a public space is prohibited. This is a class 4 Misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $250.00. Under a new law that goes into effect on July 1, this will change to a degree.WDBJ7 reports that the prohibition on drinking or offering an alcoholic beverage to someone else in public will no longer apply under the following conditions.

Drinking in public will no longer be prohibited on private Campgrounds in Virginia beginning July 1

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Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced on Monday that he has fined Unite Health Share Ministries $300,000 for illegally selling insurance in Washington.

Unite Health Fined $300K for Unauthorized Insurance Sales

A 300-cubic-meter inflatable module exceeded NASA safety margins by more than 20% in a recent burst test. Credit: Sierra Space.

Sierra Space conducts second full-scale burst test of inflatable module

NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has released a document detailing the first integrated ranking of civil space challenges, or shortfalls. The agency said Tuesday the directorate will use the 2024 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking document to help guide its space technology development efforts and investments. The 2024 results were...

NASA Releases Inaugural Civil Space Shortfall Ranking Document

An Omega satellite would be around 600kg, compared with 400kg for earlier Astranis generations and conventional spacecraft weighing thousands of kilograms. Credit: Astranis.

Astranis fully funds Omega with $200 million fundraise

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Conflicts are inevitable in life as we have different opinions. Some zodiac signs are good at arguing while others strive to create harmony and avoid arguments. Yet, conflict resolution is a crucial skill at home and work. It helps people live peacefully and in unity.

5 Zodiac Signs Who Are Most Likely to Win Arguments

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New report examines Space Force agency’s ambitious satellite network program

WASHINGTON — An in-depth analysis of U.S. military efforts to deploy a proliferated, networked system of smaller satellites highlights the promise and potential pitfalls of the...

New report examines Space Force agency’s ambitious satellite network program

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