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WASHINGTON — Impulse Space has signed an agreement with satellite operator SES to transport that company’s satellites to medium and geostationary orbits. The companies announced May 22 that ...
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told lawmakers Tuesday that civilian workforce cuts are presenting a challenge for the Space Force. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) Efforts to ...
That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly.
When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The head of U.S. Space Command is calling for weapons to be deployed in space, the most explicit call yet for offensive space capabilities. “It's time that we can ...
Jed Mccaleb, the sole funder of Vast, is ready to sink $1 billion into the company’s commercial space station dreams, according to Bloomberg. “There’s not that many folks that are willing to ...
China is practicing “dogfighting” satellites as part of its expanding capabilities in space, according to the United States Space Force, which warned that Washington’s key rivals are closing ...
DENVER—The US Space Force lacks the full range of space weapons China and Russia are adding to their arsenals, and military leaders say it's time to close the gap. Gen. Chance Saltzman ...
However, 2031 remains a distant milestone. Meanwhile, the China-U.S. technological rivalry intensifies, and writing by Chinese experts about space is obsessed with the United States, seeing it ...
A mere gram of antimatter, specifically antihydrogen, could theoretically generate enough energy to propel 23 space shuttles. "To depict this magnitude, this energy, kilogram for kilogram ...
Mourad at the United Arab Emirates University published in the International Journal of Thermofluids looks at the possibilities of developing a space drive using antimatter and what makes it so ...
(Related: "Thunderstorms Shoot Antimatter Beams Into Space.") Space Station Device to Boost Antimatter Science Physicists have successfully created and even briefly confined antimatter here on Earth.