“This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it,” Jarrett Jones, senior vice president of New Glenn, said in a ...

Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the ...

USCRPL students last made history in 2019, when the club became the first student group to fire a rocket above the Kármán line: the internationally recognized legal boundary dividing Earth's ...

Doing that on a maiden flight would be unprecedented: that kind of partial reusability was pioneered by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s ...

A startup is forecasting space weather with publicly-available data now, and plans to launch a constellation of 24 weather-checking satellites by 2028. The goal: protect billions if not trillions ...

such as the Polaris Dawn’s civilian mission or when Blue Origin sends up paying customers to break the Kármán line to become astronauts — as these operations are far different from NASA’s, medically ...

Santa Monica College's John Drescher Planetarium continues its Friday evening events in winter 2025 with free, live virtual ...