Aerospace – Freethink

NASA and the Department of Energy are asking U.S. companies for help putting a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2031.

Otto Aviation has finished phase 1 flight testing of its Celera 500L, a highly efficient airplane that could cut the cost of air travel.

A stunning time lapse of the surface of the sun created using NASA images shows the activity that occurs over the course of just one month.

A Russian anti-satellite weapons test threatened the safety of ISS astronauts by adding more space debris to Earth’s orbit.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is on the hunt for its next samples from Mars, scraping away a small circle of rock to see beneath its surface.

SpinLaunch has tested a new approach to satellite launches that flings the objects into space, rather than blasting them up with rockets.

Dutch company Xyrec recently demonstrated a 67-ton industrial robot that uses lasers to quickly strip paint from aircraft.

Hypernova Space Technologies’ metal-fueled propulsion system for small satellites could be a game-changer for space exploration.

To prevent asteroid impacts, UCSB physicists suggest we slice up the space rocks using arrays of “penetrator rods.”

Two U.S. military branches are building compact, portable laser guns — taking us closer to laser warfare.