Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Members of the House Space Subcommittee expressed frustration Wednesday over the delay of a 2020 President’s Budget Request supplement for NASA, to include proposed steps and costs for an accelerated human return to the Moon. Boeing...Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… International Space Station (ISS) experiments seek insight into health challenges for human deep space explorers. Intense solar activity may be headed toward Earth. Debris from Indian ASAT test still in orbit.Human Space ExplorationStaying...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Vice President Mike Pence reasserts the administration’s commitment to space in a speech at the 2019 Satellite Conference. NASA’s latest cargo mission to the six person International Space Station (ISS) reached its destination...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The International Space Station (ISS) crew welcomes the arrival of a NASA contracted cargo mission early Monday. Last week’s Planetary Defense Conference featured simulated discovery and preparations for a possible asteroid impact...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… SpaceX offers new details regarding a destructive April 20 incident in which Crew Dragon abort thrusters were being prepared for an upcoming flight test. Efforts to launch the company’s 17th NASA contracted cargo mission to the...Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s third flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule could be the mission that returns human explorers to the lunar surface in 2024. NASA is still addressing the increase in the agency’s annual budgets needed...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA plans International Space Station (ISS) robot arm operations to overcome an external solar power issue aboard the six person orbiting science lab that has prompted a delay this week in the launch of a NASA contracted SpaceX cargo...Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Space Station program is working a power issue aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that will affect plans for a SpaceX cargo mission launch planned for early Wednesday. Experts gather at the University of Maryland to...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The nation’s space community continues its discussion of an accelerated, NASA-led human return to the Moon, to which a fully tested Space Launch System is indispensable. An amended NASA budget proposal to fund the initiative may be...Space Talk
This tiny box may make a future global quantum internet possible — but first, it's heading to space in 2027 for a year-long experiment.
Read about our Q4S quantum networking satellite system, which recently completed ground testing: https://www.boeing.com/features/2026/06/boeing-takes-a-major-step-toward-the-quantum-internet
I wrote about the rise of optical communications through the lens of a company called Observable Space, which was co-founded by SpaceX's former VP of Software.
This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it
I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans."
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Dengue, which is spread by mosquitoes, is a serious health threat in Puerto Rico and a growing concern in parts of the U.S. 🦟
Scientists are using @NASA data to track the environmental conditions linked to dengue and improve forecasts of dengue risk in Puerto Rico.
There’s only one planet we know of with life - our own. Getting to study objects that formed in a different system than our own is a rare opportunity for learning how common, or uncommon, the conditions are for the evolution of life elsewhere in the universe.