Heading east, the rocket will surpass the speed of sound in a little over a minute. After soaring through the stratosphere, New Glenn will shut down its seven booster engines and shed its first stage…
Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during the Clinton years, Airbnb’s chief crisis manager through every regulatory nightmare from here to Brussels…
Another mission the White House wanted to cancel was THEMIS, a pair of spacecraft orbiting the Moon to map the lunar magnetic field. The lead scientist for that mission, Vassilis Angelopoulos from the University of…
Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open-source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its announcement of the acquisition, Qualcomm said…
The first Blue Moon Mark 1 is funded from Blue Origin's coffers. It is now fully assembled and will soon ship to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for vacuum chamber testing. Then, it will…
The Artemis II crew (from the right): Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen pose in front of their Orion spacecraft, which they have named "Integrity." Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak Whole and undivided Ultimately,…