Bezos sues NASA over moon programme
So much for helping it along
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin brought its fight against NASA's Moon programme to federal court on Monday, claiming that the agency wrongly evaluated its lunar lander proposal.
Bezos offers to give $2 billion to NASA
Wants to build a new moon lander
The first man to ride a giant model sex toy into space, Jeff Bezos, has offered to cover $2 billion of NASA costs to be reconsidered for a key contract to build a Moon landing vehicle.
NASA manages to phone Voyager 2
You are probably heading to a better place than earth right now
NASA has managed to make contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March.
AI confirms 50 new planets from old NASA data
No comment from Pluto
British boffins have worked out a way to find planets in existing data using AI.
NASA creates nuclear fusion using lattice confinement
All they needed with metal hydrogen, and an electron accelerator
Researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center have now demonstrated a method of inducing nuclear fusion without building a massive stellarator or tokamak. In fact, all they needed was a bit of metal, some hydrogen, and an electron accelerator.
Astronauts prank called using their satellite phone
Bored while waiting for pick up after splash down
NASA's Doug Hurley and his crewmate Bob Behnken had a satellite phone at their disposal after splashdown on Sunday.
NASA hits cloudy problem
Didn’t realise it would have to pay extra for downloads
NASA needs 215 more petabytes of storage by the year 2025, and thought Amazon Web Services could provide the bulk of that capacity, but apparently it didn’t realise that it would have to pay again to download it.
Rocket Lab is authorised for more important missions
Gets certification
Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle has received Category 1 certification from NASA, meaning it is authorized for use on more important missions, opening up a whole new revenue stream for the growing launch provider.
NASA fixes Voyager 2
Best remote fix ever... and then Microsoft will upgrade it to Windows 10
In an incredible feat of remote engineering, NASA has fixed Voyager 2,
NASA investigates Boeing's software checking
Apparently, it may not be up to snuff
A second software problem during a CST-100 Starliner test flight is prompting a NASA safety panel to recommend a review of Boeing's software verification processes.