Virgin Galactic has named one of the first commercial astronaut crews for its Delta-class planes, set to fly no earlier than 2026. The crew, announced on Thursday (June 20), includes past Virgin Galactic American private astronaut Kellie Gerardi, who flew aboard Galactic 05 in November 2023, along with Canadian Shawna Pandya and Ireland’s Norah Patten. […]
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NASA’s Hubble telescope relying on single-gyro ‘pointing mode’ to capture galactic images
NASA has released the fist galactic image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s new one-gyroscope pointing mode. An issue with one of the gyros took the telescope offline for several weeks. Photo by David Thilker (Johns Hopkins University)/ NASA, ESA, STSci June 19 (UPI) — NASA on Tuesday released a Hubble Space Telescope image captured […]
Why Virgin Galactic Stock Keeps Going Down
Things are not looking great for Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE). Since confirming its decision to run a 1-for-20 reverse share split last week (shrinking its share count by 20x and artificially pumping up its share price by 20x), the space tourism company’s share price at first seemed to leap the expected 20 times to $14.80 […]
Virgin Galactic stock tumbles after reverse stock split
Virgin Galactic (SPCE) shares are trading lower after the company implemented a 1-for-20 reverse stock split, which took effect on Monday. This action, aimed at increasing the company’s stock price and meeting listing requirements, has triggered a sell-off among investors. Yahoo Finance’s Market Domination takes a closer look at the space tourism company’s stock action. […]
Virgin Galactic shares sink after board approves reverse stock split
(Bloomberg) — Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. shares tumbled after the company’s board of directors agreed to a 1-for-20 reverse stock split aimed at maintaining the stock’s listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Most Read from Bloomberg The Richard Branson-founded space tourism company proposed the reverse split in April after its stock had fallen below […]
Hubble Telescope shares stunning galactic view despite recent hardware malfunction (photo)
The aging but tenacious Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back yet another stunning photo of a distant galaxy. Hubble‘s latest view captures the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. The photo, released on June 7, was taken in May using the space telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument […]
The Milky Way’s last major act of galactic cannibalism was surprisingly recent
New findings from the Gaia space telescope indicate the Milky Way may have cannibalized a small galaxy not too long ago, cosmically speaking. In fact, the last major collision between our galaxy and another seems to have occurred billions of years later than previously suspected. The Milky Way has been long understood to have grown […]
Virgin Galactic launching final commercial spaceflight on VSS Unity spaceplane today
The excitement is building for the liftoff of Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial spaceflight. The launch window for the mission, known as Galactic 07, opens at 8:30am MT (10:30 a.m. EDT or 1430 GMT) on Saturday (June 8) and will depart from Spaceport America in southwestern New Mexico. The Galactic 07 crew will include Axiom Space […]
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Virgin Galactic eyes June 8 for final commercial spaceflight on VSS Unity spaceplane
The excitement is building for the liftoff of Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial spaceflight. The launch window for the mission, known as Galactic 07, opens at 8:30am MT (10:30 a.m. EDT or 1430 GMT) on Saturday (June 8) and will depart from Spaceport America in southwestern New Mexico. The Galactic 07 crew will include Axiom Space […]
Why Virgin Galactic, AST SpaceMobile, and Rocket Lab Stocks All Rocketed Today
After a long holiday weekend, shares of U.S. space stocks took off like rockets on Tuesday. As of 1:20 p.m. ET, AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) had gained 6.3% and seemed poised to resume its winning streak. Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) wasn’t far behind, up 5.6% after announcing a successful weekend rocket launch. Best of […]
AI finds hidden galactic evolution clues in over 100 galaxies. Here’s how
The interstellar clouds of distant, ancient galaxies are often filled with carbon. This means, if astronomers can trace and detect these patches of carbon, which they call neutral carbon absorbers, they can learn quite a lot about how galaxies evolve. Yet, actually detecting neutral carbon absorbers — a process that typically involves finding the distinctive […]