5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (178+ words) 3D-printed aluminum eggshell arrays filled with water proved more effective at impact resistance. Another popular demonstration is the classic egg-drop challenge, in which students must figure out how best to protect a single egg from breaking when dropped from a…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1292+ words) “We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before.” Isar Aerospace, founded in 2018 by three students at a German university, successfully launched a privately-developed rocket into low-Earth orbit Saturday from a Norwegian spaceport inside…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (765+ words) “Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is.” The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (404+ words) “Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there.” The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (685+ words) He reported from space that only “fat” Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness. The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyama was also the first commercially sponsored cosmonaut and the world’s first journalist to file reports while on a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (201+ words) Also: A surprising connection between whale calls and special relativity, tiny sound-powered drones, and more. Credit: Rohan Naidu (University of Hawai’i) Credit: Rohan Naidu (University of Hawai'i) Credit: Juan Cruzado Cortés/CC BY 4.0 Credit: Juan Cruzado Cortés/CC BY 4.0 DOI:…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (655+ words) Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership. Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (867+ words) NASA’s cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn’t include the helicopters. For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the agency’s near-term…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (495+ words) With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA’s science programs need a boost. As is standard procedure for major NASA missions, the US space agency held a post-launch news conference on Sunday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (114+ words) Taiwan’s effort to develop its own satellite launcher hit a setback this week. As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled…...