NASA released last month a long-awaited economic assessment of space-based solar power, concluding that it would be far more expensive than terrestrial alternatives. Jeff Foust reports on how some in space solar power community are pushing back against those conclusions, concerned it will have a…
Jodrell Bank Observatory in England has been used for radio astronomy and, on occasion, listening for Soviet spacecraft. Dwayne Day describes how it was also used to help search for a "missing link" in Soviet spacecraft communications.
Ingenuity, whose mission ended last month, was a first-of-its-kind Mars helicopter with no guarantees more will follow soon. Ari Allyn-Feuer discusses how sending a large number of similar helicopters could advance Martian exploration in novel ways.
NASA started its Discovery program more than three decades ago to fund a line of lower cost, higher risk planetary science missions. Jeff Foust reviews a NASA history of the program's origins and how, over time, its missions became more expensive and risk-averse.
Credit Scoring noyb has scored a stage victory in its proceedings against the credit reference agency CRIF and the address trader Acxiom in Germany. The companies are illegally trading the personal data of millions of Germans. A little over two years ago, noyb therefore filed a complaint. Now the…