Towards the end of October, Blue Origin filed with the FCC for a New Shepard suborbital test flight sometime between November 1, 2020, and January 1, 2021. However, thanks to a catch by Michael Sheetz over at CNBC, it looks like the filing has now been updated to reflect the test flight taking place between December 1, 2020, and February 1, 2021.

NASA’s Deep Space Station 43 (DSS43)was put under construction back in mid-March. Because of that, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was left in the dark, with no way to receive communications from Earth. This is due to DSS43 being the only antenna on the planet that is capable of sending communications out to Voyager 2.

The International Space Station received its first crew on November 2, 2000, exactly 20 years ago. Since then, a monumental amount of research and discoveries have been made aboard the ISS. Cooperation from the United States, Russia, Japan, and many more countries have made this all possible.

Halloween will be extra special this year with a night sky lit by a blue moon. For those of you who aren’t sure what a blue moon is, it’s the second full moon to fall within a single calendar month.

NASA recently took to Twitter with an ominous tweet simply saying, “PSST…Uh, did anyone hear…that?” The tweet was then responded to in an equally ominous manner by other related accounts such as the Chandra Observatory. Well, it turns out that NASA was alluding to the fact that they were about to drop a new Halloween themed album.

A new research collaboration between NASA scientists, the SETI Institute, and a handful of other organizations has discovered that there are many more potentially inhabitable planets in our galaxy than initially thought. This discovery and all of its associated research are due to be published in “The Astronomical Journal” in the near future.

On October 28, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. PT, Ares I-X was launched from John F. Kennedy Space Center as part of NASA’s Constellation program. Ares I-X was the first-stage prototype and demonstrator for the Ares I, which was supposed to be a crew launch vehicle. Unfortunately, the Constellation program would never achieve its full potential.

Apple has a series on YouTube called ‘Experiments’ that routinely shows off iPhone camera capabilities. For the newly released iPhone 12, Apple is using space as the inspiration to demonstrate new iPhone fetures . The results are rather beautiful.

NASA has announced today that water has been discovered on a sunlit portion of the Moon for the first time. More specifically, molecules of water were discovered in the Clavius crater, which is one of the largest craters on the Moon located in its southern hemisphere. This discovery was made by the world’s largest flying observatory called SOFIA.

Houston-based company Intuitive Machines has been awarded $47 million by NASA to deliver a payload to the moon by December 2022. Said payload will include an ice-drilling machine along with a mass spectrometer.

Firefly Aerospace announced today that it has successfully performed acceptance testing for its Alpha launch vehicle. This news, along with previously successful stage 2 testing, puts Firefly right on track for Alpha to make its debut launch later this year.

The Soviet Union’s “Zond” program, which means “probe” in Russian, consisted of 17 spacecraft, the last of which launched on this day back in 1970. It was called Zond 8, and it marked the end of the Zond program despite two more Zond spacecraft having been planned to launch after it.

Yesterday, The Mars Society held part of its four-day annual convention over Zoom. During the Zoom call, prevalent players in the space industry were invited on to discuss certain topics — the most prevalent of those people being Elon Musk.

This month Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos revealed plans for a brand new rocket they will call “Amur.” Along with this announcement comes two significant facts about the Amur rocket: its engines will burn methane, and it will have a reusable first stage variant.

We have seen a rocket with a reusable first stage before with SpaceX’s Falcon 9. In fact, the Amur rocket bears a substantial resemblance to the Falcon 9 in appearance as well. However, despite the similarities between the two rockets, there are some key differences to note here.

Kate Rubins will be returning to Space today, headed to the International Space Station. She will be headed there aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft along with two Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey-Sverchkov.

Scientists using powerful telescopes watched in awe as a supermassive black hole devoured a star. The event was witnessed by many different scientists all over the world.

The type of phenomenon that was witnessed is referred to as “tidal disruption.” It is caused when a star gets sufficiently close to a supermassive black hole and is quite literally pulled apart. This pulling apart of the star is caused by the black hole’s “tidal force,” which is a substantial difference in strength between its gravitational field and the star’s gravitational field.

SpaceX has just been contracted by the Pentagon’s Transportation Command to design and build a rocket capable of moving up to 80 tons of cargo anywhere on Earth in one hour. This may sound far-fetched, but it is technically within the realm of possibility. The real question is, how practical is it?

SpaceX has been awarded a contract by the US Space Development Agency (SDA) worth about $149 million. The contract includes SpaceX building and launching a network of small satellites into low-Earth orbit to monitor missile launches.

Yes, you read the title correctly, Glasgow University’s James Watt School of Engineering is currently developing “self-eating rocket” technology. The technology has been in development for about two years, but now the Ministry of Defence’s Defence & Security Accelerator (DASA) wants to get involved. DASA has offered £90,000 to the University to help fund the development of the technology.

If you remember, about two years ago, the exciting discovery of a saltwater lake was made under the ice at Mars’s south pole. However, while exciting, the discovery was challenging for some scientists to believe at the time. Now, it seems that skepticism can be put to rest as just a few days ago, this discovery was confirmed.

AgniKul Cosmos, an aerospace startup based in India, has announced a significant step forward in getting to test its launch vehicle. The company has just signed a “memorandum of agreement” with Alaska Aerospace Company.