Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The National Space Foundation unveils humanity’s first image of a black hole on Wednesday, the result of a decade-long effort to see what was previously believed to be unseeable. Lockheed Martin offers a plan for returning to the surface...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine emphasizes urgency and the role played by international partners in returning to the Moon with human explorers. U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross outlines a formula for succeeding in a growing...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Talk at the annual Space Symposium, underway this week in Colorado Springs, turns to an accelerated human return to the surface of the Moon and the national security role of a new U.S. Space Corps. Human Space ExplorationMoon 2024:...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Efforts by NASA’s to expedite a return to the lunar surface with human explorers and how best to accomplish the goal continues to stir discussion. Space Symposium, one of the nation’s biggest gatherings on space policy, gets...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA’s Stennis Space Center reach a milestone in preparation of the Space Launch System (SLS) for its first four mission launches. A Russian resupply missions logs its second fast track flight to the...Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… An accelerated effort by NASA to make a sustained human return to the Moon’s surface by 2024 could set the stage to reach Mars by 2033, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told Congress this week, explaining the agency is looking to...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Congress seeks more information from NASA on the cost and milestones for reaching the Moon’s surface with human explorers in 2024, four years earlier than previous estimates. Boeing’s uncrewed CST-100 Starliner test launch to...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s planned Gateway, a lunar orbiting “command module” equipped with reusable ascent and descent modules could be an element crucial to achieving an accelerated and sustained human return to the lunar surface. The 2024...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Town Hall on Monday with Administrator Jim Bridenstine likely to feature talk of future human lunar exploration. It follows a successful NASA spacewalk on Friday to upgrade power storage batteries on the International Space Station...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.