India has successfully launched their GSLV III booster. This is a rocket in roughly the same class as the Falcon 9, with a payload of 4 tonnes to GTO. The...

First, this isn't my "subject", it's the title of this article: Mining the moon for rocket fuel to get us to Mars May 14, 2017 8.04pm EDT ?Updated May 18,...

The link is to a video of the latest launch of Falcon 9. What I found interesting was that it shows the complete timeline of the flight and what the first...

SpaceX just launched CRS-11 on its way to the ISS and it looks to have been a successful launch and a successful landing of the first stage at LZ-1 (spot on...

"Spacex is estimating they wil be able to achieve $140,000 per ton for the trips to Mars. If a person plus their luggage is less than that, taking into...

It's been a long time since I came by this group, but I did today. If you are interested in power satellites, there is a Google group for that. Keith PS ...

What's happening at sci.space.news? I've not heard from them for a month.

The new start-up Arca Space Corporation will test this year for the very first time, more than 50 years after the aerospike was developed, the high altitude...

In article , says... Elon Musk warned today's launch would represent a...

NASA just announced a solar probe to travel quite close to the Sun, about 3.7 million miles from the solar surface: Nasa’s hotly anticipated solar mission...

Yesterday's Falcon 9 flight was aborted before launch due to a GNC issue. SpaceX will try gain today (at about 7:30 p.m. eastern time). A Dragon capsule...

JF Mezei wrote: While the Queen is the head of state on paper, the governor general is the effective head of state for...

A former NASA engineer at the Ames Research Center claims aliens are in our solar system and they are creating rings around planets like Saturn. Dr. Norman...

Rest in Peace Thomas Lee Elifritz -...

"Last month, Popular Mechanics covered the exciting prospect of the first ever commercial moon landing, which could launch by December 2017 if everything goes...

I have recently read on aRocket that Jordin Kare has passed. He was another sci.space regular and created SF folk music (AKA "filk"). One of the songs he...

I have seen from multiple source that the Arecibo radio telescope has detected a "weird signal" from the Ross 128 star last April and May. What I can't find...

On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 1:01:30 AM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote: This is more to understand things. Forgetting for a second temperature and radiation. ...

China is apparently in negotiations with the EU about 'sharing' a Lunar Base. Just who would be responsible for what is unknown. -- "The reasonable man...

On Monday, July 17, 2017 at 7:56:07 PM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote: JF Mezei wrote: On 2017-07-16 19:29, Fred J. McCall...