Aeronautics & Aerospace

We’re Going To Uranus! NASA Will Spend $4.2 Billion And $4.9 Billion On New Flagship Missions To The ‘Ice Giant’ And Saturn’s ‘Wet Moon’ Enceladus

Forbes: It’s official—NASA is being sent to orbit the seventh planet Uranus and land on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It should arrive at these two distant targets in 2045 and…

The measure of: Otto Aviation Celera 500L

E&T Magazine: An American start-up has introduced its ‘bullet-shaped’ plane that they believe could change the world of private air transportation. The Celera 500L fuel-efficient ‘bullet’ plane features a five-bladed pushing propeller mounted behind the tail, which is powered by a…

Axiom launch: why commercial space travel could be another giant leap for air pollution

The Conversation: The Axiom-1 mission to send four private astronauts to the International Space Station is the first of many missions planned by NASA to expand the ISS for commercial…

Dreaming of Suitcases in Space

New York Times: The mission to turn space into the next frontier for express deliveries took off from a modest propeller plane above a remote airstrip in the shadow of the Santa Ana mountains. Shortly after sunrise on a recent Saturday, an engineer for Inversion Space, a start-up that’s barely a…