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NASA has postponed its historic Artemis II mission — the first crewed flight to the Moon since the Apollo era — after a hydrogen leak was detected during a two-day dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center. The earliest launch window is now early March, pushing back what would have been a February liftoff.
SpaceX has filed an audacious request with the Federal Communications Commission seeking approval to deploy one million solar-powered data center satellites into low Earth orbit, describing the project as a "first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization."
Cold weather and windy conditions in Florida have forced NASA to delay critical preparations for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The agency is now targeting Monday, February 2nd for a wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket, with February 8th as the earliest potential launch date.