SpaceX might finally have a real competitor: the Chinese state-owned space program.China just caught an orbital rocket in a giant net in the middle of the ocean, on the rocket's very first flight!that's 2 world firsts in a single launch:1. no booster had ever been recovered this way. the rocket has zero landing legs. it flies itself back to a ship where 4 hooks catch a tensioned net stretched over the deck.2. no one had ever recovered a booster on a maiden flight. SpaceX crashed boosters for ove

It’s #SunDay! Here’s your space weather report for the week of July 3 - July 9:• 1 X-class flare• 36 M-class flares• 3 C-class flares• 42 coronal mass ejections• 1 geomagnetic stormThis video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the week’s activity.The Sun celebrated the fourth of July with a big bang, emitting an intense X-class solar flare (https://t.co/7A82Q6PjTH) and a burst of M-class flares. You can see the show starting at about 0:49 in the video. Learn more about space weat