Space Debris

At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the liquid hydrogen tank for the Artemis 3 Space Launch System rocket was moved into the factory's final assembly area on April 22, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Steven B. Seipel) As NASA moves closer to returning the first astronauts to the moon since…

Police said on Tuesday 99 people have been arrested on suspicion of manufacturing, trafficking and possession of dangerous drugs in citywide operations over the past month. Officers seized 220 kilogrammes of drugs worth over HK$110 million. They included cocaine, cannabis buds, methamphetamine, ketamine and space oil. Nineteen of the suspects…

Xpoint has appointed Eric Lamendola as its Head of Product, and Sidharth Singh as Senior Product Manager, further propelling the company’s trajectory to become a leading geolocation technology provider in the iGaming space.  The two recruits will be responsible for defining and executing Xpoint’s ambitious product strategy, as the company…

Mount Fuji Pixabay/Creative Commons The Japanese have a famous proverb about its highest mountain. It translates roughly as, “A wise person climbs Mount Fuji once; only a fool climbs it twice.” An even bigger goofball does it twice in the space of a few days outside of the official climbing…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 12-10 mission on Monday, April 28, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update 11:05 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship. SpaceX completed its second Falcon…

Screenshot ULA Amazon has successfully launched its first satellites for the company’s Project Kuiper internet-from-space service, which will take on SpaceX’s Starlink service. The satellites launched aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from  Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7 p.m. ET on Monday. The…

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origin of water on the Moon, a resource that could prove vital for future lunar exploration. Since the 1960s, a leading hypothesis has suggested that the…

A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NASA and commercial company Magna Petra Corp. The Mass Spectrometer…

Since last fall, NASA scientists have flown an advanced 3D Doppler wind lidar instrument across the United States to collect nearly 100 hours of data — including a flight through a hurricane. The goal? To demonstrate the unique capability of the Aerosol Wind Profiler (AWP) instrument to gather extremely precise…

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has confirmed that repair works on the runway of Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu are now complete and will be reopened on Monday, April 28, 2025, ahead of the scheduled May 6, 2025 date. Keyamo confirmed this development in a…