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No fooling—Starship rolled back to the launch pad on April 1.

The NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program is continuing to review the experiences from the Artemis I launch campaign as teams plan and prepare for Artemis II in a couple of years. History suggested there would be a long ground campaign to the Space Launch System’s (SLS) first liftoff, and a series of issues — primarily with fueling the SLS Core Stage — kept Artemis I on the ground through most of 2022.

A group of NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) research scientists have created an unprecedented map of Mars using images exclusively created from the Emirates Exploration Imager (EXI) onboard the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) probe, also known as Hope or Al-Amal.

China is preparing to launch the first satellites for "Guowang" its national Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband megaconstellation.

NASA has revealed a draft strategy for long-term robotic exploration of Mars that emphasizes low-cost missions and potential commercial partnerships.

Astra announced during their quarterly call on March 30, that they are planning to conduct the first launch of Rocket 4 by the end of the year.

The launch of the first commercial satellites in AST SpaceMobile’s cellphone-compatible broadband constellation has slipped into 2024, the company said March 31 as it disclosed rising costs for developing the network.

Not too long ago, Virgin Orbit was in rarified air among U.S. rocket builders, and executives were in New York celebrating its public stock debut.

The rover continues its hunt for rocks worthy of bringing to Earth for further study.

Astrolab has signed an agreement with SpaceX to transport Astrolab’s FLEX rover on an upcoming mission to the Moon using SpaceX's Starship as early as 2026.

NASA experts will join a virtual press conference hosted by Axiom Space at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 6, to preview the launch of Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2), the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The Ax-2 launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft is targeted for early May from Launch Complex 39A at

Media are invited to a NASA media teleconference 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 5, to discuss the upcoming launch of the first space-based instrument to observe major air pollutants across North America every hour during the daytime.

Lunar rover developer Astrolab has signed an agreement with SpaceX to transport its first rover to the moon on a future Starship flight.

South Korea will spend 874.2 billion won ($674 million) on space programs this year to expand its domestic space industry, develop a next-generation launch vehicle, and bolster space defense capabilities. It is a 19.5 percent increase from the previous year, and the most South Korea has ever budgeted for space.

Astra is still planning to conduct a first launch of its Rocket 4 vehicle before the end of the year as it scales up production of spacecraft electric propulsion systems.

n-space transportation company Momentus announced March 31 it has successfully started tests of the propulsion system on its Vigoride tug launched earlier this year.

"This is why we thoroughly & rigorously exercise every possible condition on the ground."

China conducted a pair of launches across Thursday and Friday, sending interferometric synthetic aperture radar and reconnaissance satellites in orbit.

A top Chinese space official has called for the country to speed up its plans to develop lunar infrastructure or miss out on a never-to-be-repeated opportunity.

Virgin Orbit announced late March 30 it was laying off the vast majority of its employees after failing to raise additional funding, putting the launch company’s future in jeopardy.

Virgin Orbit has informed its employees that the company will be ceasing operations "for the foreseeable future".

Virgin Orbit is ceasing operations “for the foreseeable future” after failing to secure a funding lifeline, CEO Dan Hart told employees during an all-hands meeting on Thursday afternoon, and will layoff nearly all of its workforce.

Maxar, an Earth imaging company, is looking to build a new business imaging objects in space.

Telesat remains committed to developing its Lightspeed low Earth orbit broadband constellation despite ongoing delays to cover the project’s rising costs, CEO Dan Goldberg said March 29.

NASA has announced the establishment of the Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC.

NASA has established the new Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington to carry out the agency’s human exploration activities at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of humanity. Amit Kshatriya will serve as the agency’s first head of the office, effective immediately.

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. They have found not one, but two black holes that are the closest to Earth ever discovered.

“Boeing pushed back the flight schedule of its Starliner capsule by several months, the company said on a conference call with reporters Wednesday.”

Northrup Grumman – 18 (NG-18) Cygnus Reboost: Today, the ISS successfully performed a 0.9 m/s reboost using Cygnus Delta Velocity Engine (DVE) thruster starting at 16:03 GMT with a burn duration of 15 minutes and 21 seconds. This reboost is the first of three reboosts to set up the two-orbit rendezvous for 84P Progress currently …

A major Chinese state-owned defense contractor is preparing to launch the first satellite for a very low Earth orbit constellation.

SpaceX is now scheduled to launch a batch of 10 communications and missile tracking satellites on the Tranche 0 Flight 1 mission for the Space Development Agency (SDA) on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at 7:29 AM PDT (14:29 UTC). A first attempt on Thursday was aborted at T-3 seconds.

NASA has unveiled a draft strategy for long-term robotic exploration of Mars that emphasizes low-cost missions and potential commercial partnerships.

ULA has experienced an anomaly during testing of a Vulcan Centaur 2nd stage, and an investigation is underway.

Isar Aerospace has raised $165 million in a Series C funding round to scale up production of its Spectrum rocket

NASA and Boeing have pushed back the first crewed launch of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft with astronauts on board until at least late July because of certification paperwork that has taken longer than expected to complete.

Rosotics developed a new type of 3D printer to reduce the cost and power required to manufacture rocket tanks, fairings and other large aerospace structures.

The Space Development Agency (SDA), a Pentagon initiative created in 2019 to accelerate the use of commercial space technology, is set to launch its first fleet of 10 satellites on March 30th.

The Space Development Agency, formed inside the Pentagon in 2019 to help accelerate the use of commercial space technology, is preparing to launch on March 30 its inaugural fleet of 10 satellites.

"It's just a matter of going through all that data."

Planet on Wednesday delivered another record quarter of revenue, nearing the top end of its full-year revenue forecast.

Planet announced plans March 29 to acquire Sinergise Labs, a Slovenian startup known for making Earth-observation data accessible through cloud-based APIs.

NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Colorado-Boulder, for the management and operations of the Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center, part of NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System.

A Paris firefighter has died while working as part of the protection mission of the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

After a one-year delay to complete critical testing, NASA's Psyche mission has been updated as the spacecraft is prepared for launch to explore a metal-rich asteroid.

Lockheed Martin will offer a service consisting of a network of satellites located in lunar orbit that will provide communication and navigation services support to spacecrafts on or around the moon.

Falcon 9 B1077-4 launched 56 Starlink v1.5 satellites into low Earth orbit on Wednesday, March 29 at 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC), from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SES confirmed March 29 it is in talks about potentially merging with rival satellite operator Intelsat.

NASA is taking home the honor of the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government among large agencies for 11 years in a row, as ranked by the Partnership for Public Service.

Space infrastructure company Redwire reported fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, saying it further trimmed its losses and built its order backlog.

Israel launched the latest in a series of Ofek reconnaissance satellites March 28 on the country’s Shavit rocket.