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Dave Adalian

NASA’s new heat shield passes its test

It might look like it, but it's not a UFO. It's an innovative, inflatable, new heat shield - called LOFTID - successfully tested in early November 2022.

Dave Adalian

November 10, 2022

Crippled S.S. Sally Ride cargo ship docks safely at ISS

The uncrewed cargo resupply ship - the S.S. Sally Ride - reached the ISS on schedule despite a faulty solar array.

Dave Adalian

November 9, 2022

Australia’s new launch complex plans 1st liftoff

Australian companies plan a suborbital rocket launch in November 2022 from Australia's new launch complex, Whalers Way. It'll be a 1st launch fron this site.

Dave Adalian

November 4, 2022

Ticket to the moon for billionaire and wife

Billionaire Dennis Tito and wife Akiko Tito will be among the first space tourists to visit the moon. Read more about their ticket to the moon on Starship.

Dave Adalian

November 4, 2022

Russia threatens attacks on civilian satellites

Russia said civilian satellites could become legitimate military targets. That's because countries such as Ukraine use them to fend off hostile invading armies.

Dave Adalian

October 27, 2022

ISS dodges Russian space debris

The ISS was moved this week to avoid a piece of Russian space debris that would have passed within 3 miles of the station.

Dave Adalian

October 26, 2022

Launches: CAPSTONE stabilized by recovery software

Engineers say CAPSTONE is stabilized after uploading recovery software and regaining control of the malfunctioning spacecraft.

Dave Adalian

October 11, 2022

Launches: SpinLaunch plans a slingshot to space!

A private company, Spinlaunch, has built a mass accelerator and hopes to launch payloads into space using this innovative technology.

Dave Adalian

October 9, 2022

Launches: Crew-5 has docked with ISS

On October 5, 2022, NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Crew-5 mission. On October 6, Crew-5 successfully docked with the International Space Station.

Dave Adalian

October 6, 2022

Launches: NASA and ESA look to the moon

In Launches: NASA and ESA reaffirmed their intent to cooperate on lunar missions at the 2022 International Astronautical Congress held in September in Paris.

Dave Adalian

October 5, 2022

Dave Adalian

Award-winning reporter and editor Dave Adalian's fascination with the cosmos began during a long-ago summer school trip. That fieldtrip never ended, and still Dave pursues adventures under the night sky. Dave grew up in California's Tulare County - where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra Nevada - a wilderness larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. He studied English, American literature and mass communications at the College of the Sequoias and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked as a reporter and editor for a variety news publications on- and offline during a career spanning more than 30 years.