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Is there still a path to Vulcan flying a national security mission in 2023?

An agreement for a United Arab Emirates’ rover to fly on China’s Chang’e-7 lunar mission has apparently been hit by U.S. export control rules.

An advisory committee called on the European Space Agency to develop a comprehensive human spaceflight program using a more commercial approach.

“Shooting rockets off in the middle of Los Angeles or Dallas doesn’t make a lot of sense.”

After successfully conducting back-to-back flights from their recently-inaugurated US launch site, Rocket Lab returned to New Zealand for its second mission in March. Liftoff of “The Beat Goes On” mission took place on Friday, March 24 at 10:14 PM NZDT (09:14 UTC).

The first flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle with astronauts on board, previously scheduled for late April, has been delayed, likely until the summer.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claims proposed spending reductions for fiscal year 2024 could have “devastating and potentially unrecoverable” effects on NASA programs, delaying or canceling many missions.

NASA has announced that Boeing Starliner's Crew Flight Test has officially been delayed.

A small group of Virgin Orbit employees are rolling back into the company’s Long Beach, California, headquarters today. The work they’ll resume carries the hopes of the rest of their colleagues, who wait unpaid in the wings. 

Payloads: Cardinal Heart 2.0: A preservative was injected into each Cardinal Heart 2.0 tissue chamber and microscopy imagery was conducted for specific chambers. A previous investigation showed that four weeks of microgravity exposure caused significant changes in heart cell function and gene expression that could lead to long-term damage or cardiac muscle atrophy. Effect of …

"Today is a huge win, with many historic firsts."

UPDATE: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has issued a response. As per the CEO, reports alleging that Saudi and UAE investors are planning...

Recent reports have emerged suggesting that a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s investment fund and an Abu Dhabi investment firm are planning to...

Relativity Space’s first Terran 1 rocket successfully got off the launch pad March 22 but failed to reach orbit because of an upper stage malfunction.

Relativity Space, a 3D-printing specialist, launched the inaugural flight of its Terran 1 rocket late on Wednesday night, which successfully met some mission objectives before failing to reach orbit.

Relativity Space has made history successfully launching its Terran 1 launch vehicle for the first time.

SpaceX may need to deorbit some of the first batch of larger second-generation Starlink satellites due to issues they are currently facing.

The first set of larger second-generation Starlink satellites is experiencing problems that could require SpaceX to deorbit at least some of them.

Avio is moving ahead with efforts to develop a larger methane-fueled rocket engine and a prototype small launch vehicle with more than $300 million in funding from the Italian government.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has entered into five-year agreements with six commercial providers of hyperspectral satellite imagery.

The U.S. Space Force has requested $60 million over the next two years from Congress for a program called tactically responsive space, according to budget documents submitted last week.

South Korean rocket startup Innospace has successfully launching its HANBIT-TLV suborbital rocket from Brazil's Alcântara Space Center for the first time.

The National Reconnaissance Office has signed five-year agreements with six commercial providers of hyperspectral satellite imagery

Relativity Space conducted the first flight of its Terran 1 rocket Wednesday. The Good Luck, Have Fun (GLHF) mission launched from Launch Complex 16 (LC-16) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. While the mission failed early into second stage flight, Relativity successfully flew through MaxQ per their main objective.

Virgin Orbit is in final talks to raise funds from Texas-based investor Matthew Brown, two people familiar with the deal told CNBC, amounting to an injection of $200 million.

Payloads: Cardinal Heart 2.0: Microscopy and video recordings were performed on eight BioCell tissue chambers. A previous investigation showed that four weeks of microgravity exposure caused significant changes in heart cell function and gene expression that could lead to long-term damage or cardiac muscle atrophy. Effect of Microgravity on Drug Responses Using Heart Organoids (Cardinal …

Watch this one because there won't be many Terran 1 launches.

A small set of Virgin Orbit employees will return to work after a week-long furlough as the company attempts to raise money to remain solvent.

From the time she was a child, Anna-Sophia Boguraev has had her eye on space. When she was 4, she built a cardboard rocket ship. She asked a lot of questions, loved looking at the stars and was set on getting a PhD long before most kids knew what that meant. The daughter of two […]

Virgin Orbit is returning a “small” team to work on Thursday, according to a company-wide email obtained by CNBC, as it aims to prepare for its next rocket launch even as its future remains in doubt.

Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital is planning another expansion of its factory in Southern California to accommodate an anticipated increase in government and commercial orders.

Frontier Aerospace raised $10 million in Series A funding from AEI HorizonX.

NASA is considering whether to move forward with the VERITAS Mission or requesting proposals for a future mission.

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) program is facing significant cost increases that are starting to impact other science missions.

NASA has selected ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC, of Beltsville, Maryland for the Repairs, Operations, Maintenance and Engineering (ROME) contract.

The US FCC has proposed a new framework to regulate the use of terrestrial wireless spectrum from space for direct-to-device services.

Terran Orbital, a specialist in manufacturing small satellites, reported fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, with annual revenue nearing $100 million as it continued to build its order backlog.

The U.S. Air Force plans to use startup Varda Space Industries’ reentry capsules as hypersonic flight test platforms

As NASA and industry partners develop new human landing systems to transport astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface and back as part of Artemis, the agency is asking university students to investigate solutions to one particularly dusty aspect of landing spacecraft on the lunar surface.

ispace announced that its HAKUTO-R M1 Lunar Lander has successfully entered orbit around the Moon. The lander performed its first lunar orbit insertion manoeuvre at 10:24 (JST) on March 21, under the direction of ispace engineers at the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Japan.

Payloads: Cardinal Heart 2.0: A media change was performed for Samples 1B and 1A. A previous investigation showed that four weeks of microgravity exposure caused significant changes in heart cell function and gene expression that could lead to long-term damage or cardiac muscle atrophy. Effect of Microgravity on Drug Responses Using Heart Organoids (Cardinal Heart …

South Korean rocket startup Innospace successfully launched a suborbital rocket from Brazil over the weekend, demonstrating a hybrid motor it plans to scale up into a small orbital launch vehicle.

Russia has spent nearly $1 billion on the development of the new Soyuz-5 rocket.

A lunar lander developed by Japanese company ispace has entered orbit around the moon, setting up a lunar landing attempt by the end of April.

The U.S. Space Force is exploring the creation of a space equivalent of the civil reserve air fleet, or CRAF, a program the Pentagon conceived 70 years ago to gain access to commercial airlift capacity in an emergency.

NASA’s plan to spend up to $1 billion on a tug to deorbit the International Space Station is a missed opportunity to instead repurpose or recycle the station, some in industry argue.

LunEx-1 is the first mission to the moon as part of TLP Network's LunEx (Lunar Exploration) program.

The U.S. Space Force in budget documents submitted to Congress last week is seeking $60 million over the next two years for a program known as tactically responsive space

These days, satellite positioning systems play a fundamental role in our society. We are constantly surrounded by this technology, and it has been fully integrated into our lives. It has multiple applications, and its potential uses continue to expand into a wide variety of industries such as communications, security, and transportation. In fact, it has […]

Payloads: Cardinal Heart 2.0: Samples were removed from the Glacier facility. A previous investigation showed that four weeks of microgravity exposure caused significant changes in heart cell function and gene expression that could lead to long-term damage or cardiac muscle atrophy. Effect of Microgravity on Drug Responses Using Heart Organoids (Cardinal Heart 2.0) uses heart …