Month: May 2019

What’s up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk’s pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX’s race to put […]

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with ( and build ) radical […]

In this What’s New in Aerospace program, NASA’s Nicholas Borer talks about the X-57 “Maxwell,” an all-electric experimental aircraft. Today, electrically-powered aircraft are starting to take flight, and the X-57 flight demonstrator is designed to […]

Current deep space telescopes do not provide a comprehensive picture of all objects in orbit around the Earth. The Space Surveillance Telescope program aims to enable ground-based, broad-area search, detection, and tracking of faint objects […]

Launch Site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. Less than 24 hours after the launch, the string of 60 satellites were […]

A team of engineers at an aerospace startup is using one of the world’s largest 3D metal printers to build rockets, and it could be a ‘game changer’ in the space industry as we know […]

It was entirely unknown to the U.S. at the time, but the infamous Cuban missile crisis that bought the world to the brink of nuclear war did not actually end with the agreement between the […]

From the Brookings Institution. The video is just over ten minutes but the history brought to light shows us that there’s a long history behind the arms treaty signed by presidents Obama and Mecvedev; underscoring […]

Millions should remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to launch […]